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” [...]

The “strip harvesting” method takes donor hair from the place of thickest hair density: the back of the head. Besides leaving a strip scar, this method may leave the patient with a severe, unnatural-looking hairline. This patient had that experience at a previous clinic. He came to Dr. Umar for an FUE hairline restoration, desiring [...]

A previous “strip harvesting” procedure left this patient with strip scars, a pluggy hairline, and an unfilled crown. He badly needed a crown hair restoration, but lacked sufficient scalp donor hair. Using a body hair transplant of 9000 grafts from the patient’s beard, chest, nape of neck, and head, Dr. Umar achieved a total crown [...]

Dr. Umar provided a complete FUE hair restoration for this patient. The patient came to him with a receding hairline, crown hair loss, and strip scar from a previous procedure. Using the FUE method, 2900 grafts were taken from the patient’s head and nape of his neck, and 300 from the beard. The hair restoration [...]

This patient had undergone a previous hair transplant using “strip harvesting.” The result was two terrible strip scars. Using body hair transplantation with FUE technology, Dr. Umar moved 1200 hairs follicles to cover the strip scar.  One of the many advantages of body hair transplantation is that it makes the pool of donor hair virtually [...]

This African American hair loss patient had a previous “strip harvesting” transplant and FUE hair transplant. One procedure left him with a strip surgery scar, and the other with insubstantial growth after 1 year. African American hair loss, being as prevalent as within any other ethnicity, is correctable via Dr. Umar’s FUE hair transplant method. [...]

This patient presented to Dr. Umar having had a previous hair transplant surgery that did NOT use follicular unit extraction for transplantation. The result was a visible strip scar. Using the FUE hair transplantation method, Dr. Umar was able to drastically minimize the patient’s strip scar. The “strip harvesting method” may not only leave an [...]

This patient suffered from a receding hairline and tried to hide his male pattern baldness with a comb-over. Dr. Umar was able to restore his hair and confidence by transplanting 2,500 grafts from his head and nape area. The result – a natural hairline and no more comb-overs! These pictures show you the before and [...]

Several studies on hair loss have shown that the general time between initially noticing hair loss and seeking treatment is about six years. This is definitely more understandable because of the fact that hair loss is on average a gradual process. There is almost always that sad denial stage,and then the phase that patients hope [...]

This patient’s severe baldness was exacerbated by bad transplants and several failed restoration surgeries done elsewhere. The aftermath: Several large widened strip scars that wrapped around his head. Scars in the crown and front from an attempt to suture a wig permanently to his head. Poorly angled large plugs consisting of five- to six-hairs. Severe [...]

  Hair Loss Level: Hair transplantation Scar from Hair Transplantation results from Strip Surgery Repair Surgery: The patient had undergone the follicular unit strip surgery (FUSS) at a clinic in Canada. While his result in the recipient area was fine he wanted the option of keeping his hair short, but was unable to do so [...]

Hair Loss Level:  Hair loss Level NW5 with previous transplants. In need of hair transplant repair. Surgery: Previous hair restoration strip surgeries done at another Los Angeles hair transplant clinic had depleted his head donor with still more baldness. To resolve, he opted for a combination of follicular unit extraction ( FUE ) using head [...]

  Hair Loss Level: The patient had undergone strip surgeries at another clinic years prior to seeing Dr Umar. He had the most severe ridging, a hairline packed densely with large plugs, and strip scars. The patient hides his disfiguring hairline by shaving the plugs and combing the hair of the frontal scalp forward. He [...]

  Hair Loss Level: NW4 hair loss with previous transplants at another clinic, needed hair transplant repair to reconstruct hairline. The patient wanted an extremely conservative hairline at NW3. His main emphasis and goal is to have a very subtle thinning look. He presented to Dr Umar for help knowing of the latter’s experience in [...]

Hair Loss Level:  NW 3 with previous hair transplants. Surgery: The patient had a previous hair transplant surgery at another clinic which utilized the follicular unit strip surgery ( FUSS ) technique. This surgery left him with a linear scar he wanted Dr. Umar to camouflage as well as an unnatural looking hairline he wanted [...]

Hair Loss Level: Hair loss Level NW 3 Surgery: 2500 grafts derived from the head, nape were used for this hair restoration. The patient came to Dr. Umar after a previous attempt at follicular unit extraction (FUE) at a clinic in Mexico had failed. In Mexico, the patient reports that all aspects of the follicular [...]

Hair Loss Level: NW 6 with previous thin hair transplant. Crown area is the next step in his hair restoration process. Depleted scalp donor source calls for body hair to head transplant. Surgery: Patient received over 4500 grafts derived from the head, nape and beard, using body hair to head transplant. The patient also had [...]

Hair Loss Level: NW 6 requiring FUE hair transplant. Surgery: Surgery I: 15000 grafts derived from the head, nape, and chest added to the entire NW6 area and the creation of a full hairline Surgery II: 5000 grafts derived from the head, nape, beard and chest hair added to the crown, hairline and mid-scalp for [...]