This local Vancouver patient came in yesterday for a follow up visit to show us his results so far. He is six months out from a procedure with Dr. Hasson and team where 5547 grafts were harvested in one session.

The other day I posted a result of one patient of Dr. Hasson's that is five months post-op where he is exhibiting extraordinary growth at an early stage. This patient however is more indicative of what an average patient can expect with such a number of grafts at a similar time frame. Note the hairline hairs, especially in the profile images, indicate finer hairs that are growing quite well. These hairs will continue to thicken over the coming months.

As typical, the crown area is usually slower to come in and should fill in more in the next six to eight months.

























This is the only "before" crown shot that turned out.

It looks like NicNitro part 2

Similar characteristics.
Nice job!

Joe,

I believe that all docs should adopt your method of taking and showing pics. It's a great description of how a HT really turns out!

This guys got great results for 6 months. This is another "results for 6 months not typical" type of guy right?

BTW, any before and after pics of patient's scar? These pics are also very important to see IMO!

That looks great I am almost a month and a half post op with Dr Hasson and I am counting down the days until mine grows in!

Dakota,

No scar pics at this time but I'll see if we can't take some if/when he comes in for his one year follow up visit. I'm glad you like the format of the photos. It's easier for me and it shows you guys more of the result.

Mike,

Hard to believe you are coming up on six weeks. It seems like only last week that you were here!

Woooooow!!!!! Thats all I can say

QUALITY!

Holy Hassan!

Joe, what would a procedure of this size cost? $20k? Was this done in one day?

Joe,

Dr. Hasson is truly an artist! Another job well done.

Nice photo presentation as well!

Bill (Falc)

HT55,

It's hard to say. First, are you saying your hairline is like this patient's before or after the HT? Send me your photos and I'll the doc take a look.

Dewayne,

I do not know how much he paid but if you use our cost per graft you can get an idea of what the standard fee would have been. Yes, it was all done in one day.

Bill,

Thanks. I like posting like this more than using the forum's built in album generator. Sorry, but this is the only way to enable really large format images. All my album postings will be like this from now on.

Joe,

No apologies necessary. I never really fell in love with the flash photo album format. I remember when it was implemented and it hit us all by surprise. I was actually on the forum when it happened (surprise lol) and was like "what the...?"

That said, large photos still can be viewed in the adobe photo albums by clicking on the photo and then "detach image". I am not sure that most members are aware of that option, but the menu floats in from the right when you click on the image (not the thumbnail).

But feel free to continue presenting them this way.

Bill

These results look real good .. but .. I think this patient could get more natural results by either coloring the lower natural graying temple hairs or lightening up the transplants. The transition in the temporal area looks very obvious.

Nothing wrong with the HT, it is excellent, I just think some patients will have to help things along a bit to achieve a more natural look in areas where the new hairs contrast with existing hairs.

Rambler,

Time should soften that up a bit. Remember, he's only six months out

quote:

99.99999% of people aren't picking that out as a transplant

HT55,

A misunderstanding .. I didn't mean obvious as in the HT is obvious, I meant the color difference where the HT hairs and the natural hairs meet is obvious. I should have used the word noticeable instead.

I Agree, probably only someone who has had experience with a HT might suspect that he had an HT, I think most others would just think the contrast difference would be because he didn't do a thorough enough coloring to the hairline.

5547 grafts is a huge amount,but how many actual hairs is that? Can you please list a hair count? 1's,2's,3's etc. Thanks!

so is it safe to say that this patient is out of donor hair after using those graphs? because that is an enormous amount and if he had more which ive heard of surgeries like nick nitros which seem unreal(that go over 10k) but if he got like 2000 more he could cover his bald ass crown and be honestly completely not bald at all. looks good

Looks great. The only thing out of place is his moustache. Its trying to make him look older than his hair would suggest.

Jupiter,

He is absolutely not out of grafts with one session. The would be quite a difficult feat to pull off if trying to close the donor area with acceptable tension.

When Dr. Hasson and Dr. Wong try to get out as many grafts as they can for any given patient they do so based on what the patient's donor area can give up in relation to their particular donor laxity and and donor density respectively.

The "max" that can be taken out is relative to the particular patient's donor traits. One patient can get 4000 max while another may get 5000 max, as long as getting the maximum allows for safe donor closure. I do not have this patients chart with me (I'm at home) but he has the potential, if I recall, for at least another 4000 grafts.

One of the goals that we try to reach is to get the patient where they want to be in as few sessions as possible. This mind set means fewer surgeries for the patient, less down time, less, scarring, less time to desired results and of course less money.

With regards to ramblers original observation:
-i believe the work is too dense compared to the diffuse natural vertex at the temple, the 8th photo right shot shows this clearly. Photo 6 of the left side is slightly blurred so difficult to determine. do you have pics from day of surgery? -were singles placed in vertex of temple as well; perhaps not filled in yet? this does not look like a matter of color variance, rather density. Albeit, an otherwise excellent aesthetic appearance.

Also, would like to see more post shots of the backside, with such large sessions often unable to determine whether it looks natural back there.