On the day I visited Dr. Rassman and his staff were performing a large megasession of 4,000 plus follicular unit grafts. The patient had extremely high laxity in his donor area, which enabled Dr. Rassman to remove a very large donor strip that was 29 cm long by 2.1 cm wide.
He used a single blade to remove this strip, while minimizing follicle transection and he then did a trichophytic closure to minimize any visible scarring. The technicians then trimmed this strip carefully into 4,185 one, two, three and four hair follicular unit grafts, which were then placed across the top of the patient's entire balding area. The entire procedure, including lunch, took only seven hours.
Given Dr. Rassman's long standing reputation for doing high quality megasessions of follicular unit grafting, both the quality of the work and the speed in which it was completed were not surprising.
To read all the highlights from my visit to NHI go to http://hair-restoration-info.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=569...021078082#2021078082 |
