Category Archives: Hair Transplant Assistant-Quality Control
How My Dog Kumo Confirmed My Thinking of How Hair Grows without Abrupt Angle Changes

One of my greatest passions in hair restoration is designing recipient sites. These sites dictate the pattern, direction, and density of transplanted and grafted hairs – something I feature throughout this website. At my annual hair transplant course that I direct and have done so now for 9 years, I always incorporate a lecture that […]
Phase 1 Training for Hair-Transplant Assistants
Phase 1 Hair Transplant Assistant Training (from Dr. Lam's book, Hair Transplant 360) One thing that I am very proud of is that my team at the Lam Institute for Hair Restoration has developed training of assistants worldwide. We do this through our textbook, Hair Transplant 360, volume 2, which is the first ever book […]
Phase 2 Training for Hair-Transplant Assistants
Phase 2 Hair Transplant Assistant Training (from Dr. Lam's book, Hair Transplant 360) Phase 2 training can be done in a live human patient or more ideally with cadaver tissue. Since I run a course using cadavers in St. Louis, I can help bridge a hair-transplant assistant from foam tissue to a live model with […]
Phase 2 Training for Hair-Transplant Assistants
Phase 1 Training for Hair Transplant Assistants
One thing that I am very proud of is that my team at the Lam Institute for Hair Restoration has developed training of assistants worldwide. We do this through our textbook, Hair Transplant 360, volume 2, which is the first ever book for hair-transplant assistants and in our course, Hair Transplant Workshop, in St. Louis, […]
The Picket Fence Effect from Bad Recipient Angles in Hair Restoration
One of the most important concepts when designing recipient sites, i.e., the “holes” into which the hair grafts will be placed, is to make very low angled sites, especially near and at the hairline. What I like to call the “picket-fence” look is due to the fact that recipient sites are made almost 90 degrees […]
Regional Hair Restoration: How to Select Hairs for Optimal Graft Placement
The Principles of Making Results Seamlessly Natural Results for Hair Transplants Even Close Up
Many of the other blog articles have touched upon various elements of quality control that lead to excellent surgical outcomes. What I would like to do is to talk more globally about problems that I see that make a hair transplant result look fake when looking closely at the work. Unfortunately, the public thinks that […]
Understanding the Importance of Graft-to-Site Fit in Hair Transplantation
How To Grasp A Hair Follicle: Avoiding Kinky Hair Growth
What the consumer oftentimes fails to understand is that a well-trained and dedicated hair transplant assistant is a vital component to achieving excellent cosmetic outcomes in a hair-transplant procedure. Many times a consumer looks at the reputation of the surgeon or a brand name outfit for reasons to select that entity to do the hair […]
Understanding the Hair Curl in Hair Transplantation
I believe one of the major contributions that my clinic has given to the scientific literature is a focus on the importance of hair curl, which is covered in the second volume of my book, Hair Transplant 360. The hair curl describes how every hair shaft, no matter how straight or curly, has a slight […]