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Hair Restoration Research Forum Visits to Leading Hair Transplant Clinics Dr. Michael Meshkin Surgery in Newport Beach - 3,058 Follicular Unit Grafts (Personal Album)|
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| In the past I have visited Dr. Meshkin's Newport Beach office and observed him and his staff performing a quality surgery. However, due to scheduling issues, I was not able to meet with him during my recent visit. But I did request that he document one of his recent surgeries so that I could present his surgery on our forum community. Dr. Meshkin has been recommended on the Hair Transplant Network for a number of years and has impressed me as being very hands on with his patients from the consultation through the entire surgery. He and his staff perform microscopic Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation and can provide sessions over 3,000 grafts. To view his full recommendation and patient photos, visit http://www.hairtransplantnetwo...Doctors.asp?DrID=263 Dr. Meshkin provided me the following description of the 3,058 FU surgery that he performed on Tuesday, May 20th of 2008. "The patient is a healthy 42 year old white male who traveled from Canada to have a procedure done at our office. We had done a virtual consultation on the Internet and estimated about 3000 grafts. However, the final count was to be determined on the day of his procedure. He has a family history of hair loss and noticed a gradual hair loss beginning ten years ago. He tried Minoxidil for a year about two years ago. But he discontinued using it due to lack of motivation. On the day of the surgery, I spent one hour to review the procedure and go over the treatment plan, his expectations and goals. I examined the donor area with a densitometer. He had 1.7 hairs per mm2 and he was a class six on the Norwood scale. He had dark, coarse, thick and some wavy hair. He was concerned mostly about his front and midscalp area, so we decided to concentrate mostly in the frontal and mid scalp area. Following the hairline design the donor area was shaved and a strip of 22 cm long by 1.2 cm wide was removed. I used double layer trichophytic closure to minimize any possible scarring. For the frontal hair line, I used a tiny 20 gauge needle for single hair incisions, a 19 gauge for two and some three hair incisions and a 18 gauge Nokor needle for the 3 hair grafts. I also used 90 and 91 spear point blades in the mid scalp for the three hair grafts. The donor and the recipient area were dressed in a sterile manner using a combination of k-y jelly and neosporin ointment on a moist telfa. We did a total of 3058 grafts - 670 singles, 1,430 twos and 858 threes. My assistants during the procedure were Ana with 15 years experience, Daisy and Suzette with 5 years experience, Alex with 3 years and Myra with 2 years of hair transplantation experience. The patient returned the next day for bandage removal and cleaning." |
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Hair Restoration Research Forum Visits to Leading Hair Transplant Clinics Dr. Michael Meshkin Surgery in Newport Beach - 3,058 Follicular Unit Grafts (Personal Album)