Here is work by Dr. Ron Shapiro on a local patient who has ideal hair characteristics with very good donor density and laxity. I think we can all agree his degree of loss is minimal compared to many out there. He is in his mid 40's and wanted his hairline and temples addressed. He states he will make regular visits to SMG to take progress pictures.

2176 Grafts - 4178 Hairs - with Dr. Ron Shapiro
Here are his pre-op -





1 Day Post Op after shampoo -





10 Days Post after suture removal and hair cut -

hi janna looks absolutely fantastic as usual, just a quick question if you dont mind re temples-- ive seen lots of temple work on the forums over the years from many different clinics, a lot of them are good but a lot are not so good and look odd in colour and stand out a mile. So i was wandering is there a specific area in the donor site hair should be extracted that are closer to the original temple hair colour and calibur

just curious is he on meds to help prevent/slow future loss

regards bullit

I'm wondering if Dr. Shapiro prefers the patient shaves down in these hairline procedures or can go with that hair length? Looks great by the way!

I love the 10 day closeup. It looks like there is no redness or skin irritation at all. And completely natural of course.

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Originally posted by Rachmunas4life:
I'm wondering if Dr. Shapiro prefers the patient shaves down in these hairline procedures or can go with that hair length? Looks great by the way!

I don't think he put any in the central core "tuft" area. Hence no need to shave it. Correct me if I'm wrong Janna.

Yeah that's what I was thinking... It's unlike me who has miniturization so I'd probably be better off shaving.

The area below the blue drawn in line is where the work was done, so a small portion of the recipient area is within the frontal tuft. If the tuft isn't addressed at this point, the density would not be even with the transplanted areas. Since we worked on such a small area with hair, we were able to work with the native hairs long.

It is easier to work in the recipient area when the hairs are shaved, no doubt about it. But we'll work with longer hairs.




BN,

Within the donor strip that is harvested, there are varying degees of fine and strong caliber hairs. We separate the finer singles from the stronger ones to be planted at the "points" of the hairlines and front edges of temple points.

Yes, he is on Propecia. Thanks for asking.

Hi Janna,

I was wondering how many grafts were planted on each side for the temple points and at what density per sqcm. Thanks.

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Originally posted by HAIRLAD:
Hi Janna,

I was wondering how many grafts were planted on each side for the temple points and at what density per sqcm. Thanks.

I'm going to say 40 FU/CM2. How close am I Janna?

When this patient came in for his next day hairwash he also inquired about the number of grafts into the temple points. Dr. Shapiro's reply was - he needed a little bit more on the right side so approx. 200 incisions on right and 150 on the other.

Severn - I think you are spot on with your guess. That's what we'd estimate too.

Janna,
Looks like this is going to be another stunning result from the man himself.

Mick

janna....stop showing off! looks great so far