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First patient of the day....and identical to 3 patients who have emailed me in the last 2 days and one whom I saw in Utah....
This young guy has had 3 HT locally. His entire family winds up Class 5-7, and he went in to get a crown filled. Reportedly he had 2500 grafts placed, then the front started to go...so he had 2 more cases, one strip and one FUE. Now he has a medium width scar, donor depletion, and a head full of relatively thinly placed straight hairs. AND FEW OPTIONS.
Option 1. Excise strip scar and get maybe 1500 grafts to add to the front 1.5 inches, grow his hair out and look unremarkable except for a sparse crown.
Option 2. Excise scar, likely need a small FUE into the residual scar at 1 year...and keep a short haircut so it doesn't look too thin.
He's considering his options, but I told him that if he'd have seen me back in 2012...I'd have refused to do his crown, saying he wouldn't have enough hair to then deal with the front. I hear this ALL the time...and this is what happens. He said if I'd have told him that in 2012...he'd have gone elsewhere and gotten his crown done, and only now does he realize the mistake. It would be far better to have that front 60-70% of his scalp done well, and have a bald spot than to have too little hair sprinkled all over his head.
Dr. Lindsey
This young guy has had 3 HT locally. His entire family winds up Class 5-7, and he went in to get a crown filled. Reportedly he had 2500 grafts placed, then the front started to go...so he had 2 more cases, one strip and one FUE. Now he has a medium width scar, donor depletion, and a head full of relatively thinly placed straight hairs. AND FEW OPTIONS.
Option 1. Excise strip scar and get maybe 1500 grafts to add to the front 1.5 inches, grow his hair out and look unremarkable except for a sparse crown.
Option 2. Excise scar, likely need a small FUE into the residual scar at 1 year...and keep a short haircut so it doesn't look too thin.
He's considering his options, but I told him that if he'd have seen me back in 2012...I'd have refused to do his crown, saying he wouldn't have enough hair to then deal with the front. I hear this ALL the time...and this is what happens. He said if I'd have told him that in 2012...he'd have gone elsewhere and gotten his crown done, and only now does he realize the mistake. It would be far better to have that front 60-70% of his scalp done well, and have a bald spot than to have too little hair sprinkled all over his head.
Dr. Lindsey
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