Category: Hair Plug Repair

Huey 1,500 FUE

Hair Plug & Strip Surgery Repair Before and After 1500 FUE Grafts By Dr Woods

Previous to Dr. Woods’ pioneering the Woods Technique of Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) patients had a very limited menu of options when it came to hair relocation surgery. The method that entered the general public’s consciousness involved the use of hair plugs. The reason this method became so widely known is due to the fact that the difference between hair plugs before and after the surgery was unfortunately distinctly noticeable. Based on the older surgical technique of skin grafts, the hair plug method would take small circular excisions of scalp from the donor area and graft them onto the areas of the scalp suffering from hair loss. Each circle or “plug” would carry with it hair follicles that were “evergreen” or still growing hair.

Hair plugs before and after the surgeries may have looked fine at first since the newly transferred plugs were covered up by hair that still grew in the recipient area. But as time went on and the patient continued to suffer further hair loss the plugs had no more cover or camouflage and became increasingly noticeable. Patients were then left with only the transferred plugs growing in the recipient areas. Since the remaining growing follicles were grouped together on the plugs patients would end up with an unmistakable “doll’s hair” or “palm tree” effect on their scalp. Hair plugs exposed in such a manner cannot be styled to hide them leaving patients with the options of either covering up (hair piece or hat) or shaving it off completely.

With Dr. Woods’ FUE technique patients suffering from a hair plugs’ doll’s hair look can now have the scalp restored to a more natural look by removing individual hairs from the plug areas and redistributing them to create a more natural-looking hairline.

Fernand FUE Repair

Hair Plug Repair Using FUE By Dr Woods

Daniel – Beard Hair Repair Case, 2007

Hair Transplant Using Beard Hair Before and After Result

Repair with beard hair. This patient had approximately 17 previous operations which included scalp reductions, flaps and strip excision.

He only has very sparse body hair which will be required to repair his frontal hairline. This meant there was no alternative other than beard hair to repair the massive scars on the back of his head which he otherwise had to disguise with a hair piece. 1,100 Beard Hair grafts were transplanted into the scar area under microscopic control utilizing the finest instrumentation and technique possible. Transection rates were approx. 5% Beard hair can be very coarse, feel sharp or prickly and look unnatural on the frontal scalp region but can be used to repair donor scars. The pinkness is fading gradually and now looks little more than a shaving rash. I wish to stress that Beard hair should be removed below the jaw line to avoid any possibility of pock marks and indentations on the face.

Beard Hair is not easy to remove and is prone to transection and damage in the removal process. If not done correctly, for every single good follicle, several follicles could be damaged and non viable. If Beard hair is to be considered the last body hair resource then careless removal must be avoided at all costs. This may deplete valuable stores below the jaw line and force some doctors to attempt removing beard hair from the face and this I believe is potentially problematic and only to be used as an absolute last resort.

Surgery Performed by Dr Ray Woods, Inventor FUE & BHT

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