Specialist in FUE Hair Transplantation - Dr. Mohammad Mazhar Hussain
Repairing earlier hair transplantations
Dr. Hussain sees many patients for correction of earlier work done at other clinics including correction of an uneven distribution of grafts, too large grafts ("doll's hair"), scarring after strip-surgery and other problems associated with earlier transplants.
Dr. Hussain is a FUE-only surgeon and the patient can rest assured that risk of any future problems with the donor-area is reduced to a minimum.
Reduction and camouflage of large grafts
Some patients present with large grafts due to the old punch graft technique or a poorly performed strip-surgery where the strip was not dissected into naturally occurring follicular unit but into large grafts.
As long as these large grafts are camouflaged in an otherwise dense recipient-site they may not draw people’s attention. However, if the hair loss continues to progress the large grafts can be hard to disguise and therefore hard to accept.
Fortunately, FUE hair transplantation can often provide a solution. For instance smaller grafts can be obtained from the very large grafts thus making them less prominent. This can be combined with more FUE grafts being implanted between the large grafts, helping camouflage the large grafts.
To learn more, see this patient example.
Scar correction
Using FUE hair transplantation Dr. Hussain would in most cases be able to make scar tissue less prominent and cosmetically more acceptable to the patient. However, it's important to keep in mind that growth in scar tissue can be very unpredictable. However, even moderate growth may in many instances make a noticeable cosmetic change as the linearity and prominence of the scar is reduced by even relatively few grafts.
Unfortunately it is not possible to predict the growth rate in scars for an individual patient. For this reason some patients opt for a smaller trial operation to see the growth before going for a full fledged correction.
When planning a scar correction it's important that the patient align his or her expectations with what is realistically achievable for the individual session and on a longer term: Is the scar uneven? Is it visible with a short haircut? Has the patient experienced any comments about the scar? Is the whole scar bothering the patient or only some prominent portions? Or is it disturbing to the patient to know that the scar is there although no one else sees it? What does the patient want to achieve with the scar correction? Is it possible? In one session? In two sessions?
Having "received" a scar from a previous surgeon, it's often hard for the patient to trust the surgeon claiming to be able to "fix it". If the questions above have been discussed the patients would often be able to make an informed decision on whether or not to proceed and have realistic expectations for the repairwork.
Softening of parallel, linear rows in hairline
Sadly, even patients being operated recently have been given a very unnatural hairline with parallel linear rows that attract a lot of attention. In many of these cases the angle and the direction of the grafts is also unnatural with the grafts being implanted at nearly 90 degrees to the skin and in some cases even pointing backward.
The linear pattern can be made less prominent by planting hair in between the parallel rows such that the rows are no longer identifiable. Unfortunately it’s can be more graft-consuming to change the general direction of the hairline unless only few grafts have been planted in a wrong direction.
Read more about designing a natural hair line.