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This patient had 1867 grafts to fill in the frontal zone.

We did not change his hair line location but refine its shape. To make it more natural, we build back the temples pointes (crucial factor in hair line design, especially when you are building low hair line in some patients).

The point I want to highlight in this patient is the flexibility he got for combing his hairs from left to right because of gain in volume.

In hair transplant surgery, we want to achieve a good illusion of coverage. Even though we may not maximize our focus in high density, gaining volume in the center part is a key element that could allow patient to get a better coverage. Patients will have the flexibility of playing with hairs in order to achieve a comb over effect. The new hairs may also serve as a support or base for products such as toppik to increase the illusion of coverage.

The goal in all this was to achieve naturalness (respect hair angles and direction) and undetectability.

 


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The big challenge in hair transplant is to manage the donor area wisely in order to have answers to future hair loss progression when it occurs. Candidates with extensive baldness were being disqualified for surgery because we considered them as bad candidate.
Because their inside pain is strong and sometimes devastating, we have been looking for different ways to help them: cloning, cell multiplication, cell regenerative technology (Prp, Acell ) and now due to FUE/FIT, we can also explore BHT.

Let me say on the outset that BHT is not a miracle solution. Our first goal in hair transplant being naturalness; you can encounter an issue of mismatching between donor and recipient. Beard hairs for example are coarser and darker than scalp hairs, at a certain length they tend to be wiry. Also, leg hairs may look too thin with less pigmentation than scalp hair and act as miniaturized hairs when they grow, i.e., they may not provide good coverage.

In addition, BHT hair cycle is different from Scalp hairs hair cycle, and this factor impacts growth rate very much.

Another factor is the difficulty of extraction (acute angle, change of hair direction). This makes it very challenging to a performer my get discouraged because of the possibility of an incredible high number of damaged hairs that may lead to poor results in the end.
However, my point is not really to raise all the limitations we can encounter but to see all the incredible new horizons such technique can offer when we persevere in learning how to do it right.

BHT is not just a transfer of body hairs to scalp hairs.

We can also transfer body hairs to body hairs and solve a vast amount of problems our patients encounter.

We can also use scalp hairs to build back our beard, create a goat look, replenish pubic hairs, chest hairs, etc...

I just wanted to illustrate the direct post op look of such procedures:

 

This patient was a Norwood 6 who already had a surgery with the “less is more” technique to fill the top. For the next step in the treatment, the patient asked us if we could also transplant his beard on a patchy spot on his cheek that was bothering him. We told him it was possible as it was a transfer in the same area (here beard to beard) similar to hair transplant (scalp hair to scalp hair).
Interestingly, the patient reported that beard hair didn't shed in the post op as we observed in scalp hairs. We need to compare with others patient's testimony to see if this is an exception or the rule!
And 2 years and 8 months later the patient kept the same results as shown in the following pictures:




During his last visit, the patient came for a big BHT session (beard and chest) to cover the vertex. He took the opportunity to do another BHT to BHT session (beard to beard) and we wanted to illustrate this procedure with close up pictures of the donor and the recipient area.




In summary, we just want to say that transfer of hairs from the same area seems produce better results than hairs coming from different sources in the body. This is because the first element into play is the naturalness produced by those hairs matching together. Also, we do not need high density to produce great coverage which depends on factors such as: (1) Hair caliber, (2) Hair color or pigmentation, (3) hair angulation, and (4) of course hair density.

In our patient, the beard was coarse, a mixture of  dark brown and red , implanted at flat angle (0 to 5 degree) from the skin, at low density. And the results are as follow:

Dr Mwamba - Consultations - Zurich - 16 and 17 June 2012

 

Dr Mwamba will be in Zurich for 2 days consultations on the 16th and 17th of June 2012.

If you wish an appointment please contact us via customer.care@mywhtc.com or call our clinic +32-2-5384404 or visit our website http://www.mywhtc.com

Are you frustrated with your receding hairline or thinning crown?  Uncertain whether surgery or medication is the right option for you?  There are many things to consider as solutions to hair loss issues.  Various surgical procedures are available depending on your needs.  Some are less invasive and more natural than others.  Your first steps towards hair restoration are doing your research and having a consultation with a reputable and well-respected surgeon.  Dr. Mwamba will assess your hair loss, answer any questions, and discuss what the best options are for your personal goals.  

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Dr P. Mwamba - NW 3 Vertex - 2465 FIT-Shaven - 9 months
This patient , 24 y.o., is a Norwood 3 vertex .He has kept his forelock intact and was bothered by the thinning in frontal zone .He is on minoxidil 5% .The patient wasn’t interested to graft the vertex and the receding temples ;he wanted to fix the central part of his frontal zone .

We decided to address the area and grafted it at 40 fu/cm2 .To allow a good transition between his face and the top , we scattered a few hairs in the receding temples at 30 fu/cm2 to keep the impression of receding temples ,status that the patient requested .

In our design, you can appreciate the design for his future loss which needs to be kept in mind while treating a young patient in his twenties.


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