Corrective Hair Restoration
Fortunately, the era of plug grafting is gone. Unfortunately, many hair-restoration surgeons still create very unnatural looking results. There are many reasons for this outcome. First, the surgeon may not have a clearly artistic vision of what a natural appearing hairline should be or how to position that hairline on a prospective patient’s scalp relative to the shape of the head, amount of hair loss, and other factors. Second, the surgeon who undertakes hair restoration may not understand how natural hair should grow on the head, which is very different for the central hairline, lateral hairline, temporal point, fronto-temporal angle, lateral hump, midscalp, vertex transition point, crown, etc. An in-depth understanding of how hair grows and is lost is a prerequisite to a natural hair restoration result. Finally, the quality of the hair restoration team may be lacking. Without a high level of expertise with the hair transplant team, the result can fall far short of the desired aesthetic mark. The hair-transplant coordinator and the dissection team are responsible for the graft dissection and placement. If the grafts are poorly dissected, transected, placed incorrectly into the wrong sites or manipulated harshly, poor or scattered growth can occur or worse yet kinky, unnatural looking hair. At the Lam Institute for Hair Restoration, our team is not outsourced. Instead, our own, dedicated hair transplant team is on site full time for every case.
We offer four stages of hair restoration according to the number of hairs needed to be restored. Each stage has a range of numbers from low to high reflecting variations in one’s natural hair density.
Stage 1 (1000-1600 hairs)
Stage 2 (1600-2800 hairs)
Stage 3 (2800-3900 hairs)
Stage 4 (3900-5200 hairs)
Patient 1
This 36-year-old gentleman had two prior unsuccessful hair transplant surgeries performed elsewhere with poor visual density, a grafty/pluggy and unnatural hairline, and lack of balance in his temple hair region. He is shown seven months following a single megasession hair transplant corrective procedure with Dr. Lam with extensive temporal point, hairline, central forelock and midscalp […]
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Patient 2
FUE scar revision of an FUT scar.
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Patient 3
This gentleman is shown before and after hair transplant for a scarring hair loss condition, lichen planopilaris. In general, lichen planopilaris can have poor results or reactivate but given the long period of non-activity of 8 years the likelihood is less. He is shown after a single hair transplant only 5 months.
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Patient 4
This 44-year-old Indian gentleman had two prior failed hair transplants and is shown five months after a single hair transplant procedure with us to fill his hairline, central forelock, and posterior midscalp
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Patient 5
This patient who came in from another country was kind enough to send these photos to use. He had two prior surgeries elsewhere and had limited donor hair. His hairline, midscalp, parting area, and crown hair transplant using a combination of scalp and beard grafts in a single session. He is shown 8 months after […]
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Patient 6
This gentleman underwent a second FUE beard and FUT scalp hair transplant (8 months prior) to correct a previous slot deformity in his crown and plugs in the front of his head. He also had the hairline balanced with a strong temporal point reconstruction so that he has a very natural result that looks youthful […]
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Patient 7
This Indian patient underwent a revision hair transplant using scalp and beard FUE to correct a poor hair transplant that he received in India. He is shown 10 months after a single corrective procedure.
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Patient 8
Patient age 40, Stage 3, One session, 1 year after hair transplant (Corrective Surgery: The first transplant done elsewhere grew only a scattered few hairs along the hairline with grafts that were clumped, misdirected, and pitted. The patient is shown with a natural appearing, full hairline with hair that extends to fill the entire midscalp […]
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Patient 9
This 49-year-old gentleman had 7 prior hair transplants and 5 scalp reductions performed elsewhere. He is shown 6 months following one Stage 2 hair transplant with us.
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Patient 10
This gentleman had multiple strip scars and an unnatural result from previous hair transplant results performed elsewhere. The strip scars and the entire scalp were corrected using only beard FUE hairs.
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