This patient presented to Dr. Umar with almost an entirely bald crown. His hair loss was due to severe male pattern baldness. He had no prior hair transplant surgeries. This excessive degree of hair loss called for the use of non-head hair. Thus, Dr. Umar transplanted used FUE hair transplant to move 8,000 grafts from [...]

This patient developed acne keloidalis nuchae, a condition affecting of the hair follicles at the back of the head and/or nape of the neck. Though a rare ailment with an unknown pathology, it is most commonly seen in African American males. Physicians believe it may be caused by recurrent friction (frequent among those with extremely [...]

The strip harvesting procedure didn’t get him the outcome he wanted. One year after an FUE procedure, which transplanted several thousand grafts, this patient still didn’t have the yield he desired. His frontal scalp, namely his temple points and hairline, were still noticeably thin. In addition, he had a strip scar along his mid-rear scalp [...]

This patient was experiencing thinning from his hairline, across his mid-front scalp, to his crown. He wanted to add density, but only a moderate amount because he knew he would keep a short buzz haircut in the future. Using his FUE SFET procedure, Dr. Umar extracted 3,000 grafts from the head and nape of the [...]

The aftermath of a scalp reduction and a decades-old punch graft procedure deeply dissatisfied this severely bald repair patient. These previous surgeries had left him with a pluggy hairline and teams of large punch scars riddling the back of his scalp. Adding insult to injury, his pattern baldness had continued to advance over the years, [...]

Previous scalp reductions and hair transplant procedures gave this patient a series of scars and a worsened state of baldness. He presented to DermHair Clinic after hearing about Dr. Umar’s work with advanced FUE and facial hair transplant. The patient wanted his front, middle, and crown filled in to not only restore hair, but also [...]

This patient underwent a strip surgery that yielded subpar results, leaving him with a strip scar, sparsely and poorly placed hair over the crown, and a pluggy hairline. It required a two-phase surgery for this patient to get the results he desired. With the patient lacking sufficient head donor hair, the first phase enlisted body [...]

Acne keloidalis nuchae—AKN—is a condition that starts as papules and pustules in the hair follicle and manifests in inflamed and painful keloidlike lesions, developing on the occipital scalp and/or rear neck. It sometimes appears as razor bumps on the back of the head at first. This uncomfortable mass of tissue created by AKN has no [...]

This patient suffered from a near-complete NW 6 hair loss. With head donor hair nearly depleted, he needed body hair transplantation – BHT to restore his thinning hair. Dr. Umar transplanted 20,000 grafts—5,000 head, 15,000 body—to complete this patient’s Restoration. He underwent two BHT surgeries, spaced one year apart. Twelve months after the second surgery, [...]

Many treatments for hair loss fall short and in some instance have resulted in disastrous outcomes. This patient tried several treatments for hair loss, which resulted in botched outcomes that worsened his loss of hair, leaving him scarred and deformed. At other clinics, he’d tried the double flap procedure, several scalp reductions, and the “strip harvesting” [...]