Repair Videos


This patient presented to Dr. Umar concerned about a receded hairline and a strip scar on the back of his head. He’d had a prior strip harvesting surgery that provided inadequate long-term growth and gave him the infamous linear scar. Clearly, he wanted a more youthful hairline and the strip scar filled in. After extracting [...]

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Noticias de la Salud de KNBC entrevistas a un paciente de cirugía estética y su médico, el Dr. Sanusi Umar de DermHair Clinic en Los Angeles, en el seguimiento de la historia de su trasplante de ceja notable. Después de años de cosmético sobre-desplume y los cambios hormonales que vienen con el envejecimiento, este paciente [...]

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This patient presented to Dr. Umar after having already had FUE hair transplantation at another clinic. He’d had 3600 FUE grafts but wanted more fullness with no scarring. Dr. Umar renewed his FUE hair transplantation by using 6100 FUE grafts transplanted from head, beard, and body to get the results in the video. You can [...]

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Dr. Umar performed an FUE SFET procedure on this patient using 5000+ grafts by FUE to treat his hair loss and repair his strip scar from a poor result of a previous transplant. As this video shows, now this patient can have a buzz cut with virtually no signs of his strip scar. WIth Dr [...]

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“Strip harvesting” is an outdated approach to hair transplantation. It usually requires cutting strips of flesh from the back and side of the head, resulting in a linear scar that can widen overtime, and forcing you to continually find ways to hide it. The older method also limits the donor supply to 5,000-7,000 hair follicles, [...]

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All ethnicities can experience the devastating impact of hair loss. Dr. Umar has restored the hairlines of every ethnic group and understands the individual needs required. All hair restoration needs are not the same, which someone with his expertise understands implicitly. Dr. Umar’s track record proves that hair restoration is for everyone. This patient underwent [...]

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The outdated hair transplant method of “strip harvesting” leaves those who have endured it with no appreciable difference in hair restoration, along with an unsightly scar to remind them of the failed effort. This scarring also greatly reduces their personal style choices, because it is all but impossible to sport a tight crew cut when [...]

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At DermHair Clinic, we see many people in search of a solution to failed transplant surgeries that used outdated methods such as “strip harvesting,” which left them as bald as ever – with bonus of ugly scars. For this patient, Dr. Umar used Follicular Unit Extraction to transplant 2,600 individual hairs from the patient’s nape [...]

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This patient had resorted to wearing a hairpiece to hide the damage from a failed transplant procedure done at another clinic. His unnatural hairline was pluggy, his crown empty, scars from the outdated “strip harvesting” method were prominent. He also lacked adequate amounts of donor hair on his scalp to use for transplant. Dr. Umar [...]

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A harsh hairline is common with the older strip method of hair transplantation because it uses hair from the middle and back of your head, which is thickest. This patient has had a good quality hair transplant from a top clinic specializing in the older strip method, but wanted a softer hairline. Dr. Umar used [...]

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Though the technical procedure of FUE hair transplant is the same for all, there are some differences between ethnicities only an expert knows to take note of. Generally speaking, Asian people have thicker hair follicles but less hairs per centimeter of scalp. This means the hair has the illusion of greater density, but in fact [...]

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This patient came to Dr. Umar in hopes of finding a solution to a failed hair transplant done at another clinic. Using hair from the man’s body and beard and using the Follicular Unit Extraction method of transplantation, Dr. Umar was able to provide a very satisfying result. Curious about options to fix a previous [...]

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This patient’s hair loss became catastrophic after a failed transplant procedure at another clinic that used the outdated “strip harvesting” technique. He was left with a huge scar, pluggy implants and an unnaturally straight hairline. He came to us hoping to have his strip scar hidden, his empty crown filled and his hairline made to [...]

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At the time of shooting this video, this patient remains the worst hair transplant repair case ever completed successfully. This video highlights his transformation at 36 months after his initial repair work performed by Dr. Umar in Los Angeles. Part 3/3 of the patient’s video series.  Watch Dr. Umar use his Body Hair Transplantation (BHT)  technique [...]

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This video follows the emotional journey of a hair transplant repair patient; what he underwent during his research for a better hair transplantation. The travail of a hair loss victim is something that is seldom addressed by the providers of hair transplantation and by those who are close to the patient. Emotional turmoil is definitely [...]

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This video shares the story of a patient who underwent a hair transplant using the traditional strip surgery approach. The clinic which performed it used 1,800 grafts. Unfortunately, that clinic’s strip method did not help his hair loss. He is unhappy with how hairline turned out, the baldness that remained on his head and the [...]

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This patient turned to Dr. Umar in desperation, after multiple failed hair transplant surgeries done elsewhere left him with extensive scarring, plugging and even more severe baldness. He had turned to using a toupee, but hated how obvious it was. He wanted a natural hairline to disguise part of the hairpiece, and he wanted his [...]

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In this example, Dr Sanusi Umar uses Body hair to head transplantation ( Body hair transplant ) to repair the head of a patient who has sustained damage from poor or bad hair surgeries performed years ago at other clinics. Some of these surgeries could be characterised as botched. The procedure is commonly called Body [...]

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