recipient site creation Archives | Lam, Sam (hairtx.com)

New Ways to Think of Recipient Sites: Micropunches & Lateral Slits

Published on June 20, 2013 by

There is perhaps not a day or maybe week that goes by without my thinking of how to perform more beautiful artwork for the head. Is it all just the same thing? I certainly do not think so. I have worked on constantly refining my thinking of how to create better results. Recipient sites, the […]

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Understanding Transitions of the Scalp and Why They are Important

Published on May 28, 2012 by

When I design recipient sites for hair restoration I am always cognizant that each site must blend naturally to the adjacent sites for several reasons. First, hair naturally slowly transitions in angle from one area to another. In a natural untransplanted scalp no hair angles abruptly change so for optimal naturalness these gradual transitions must […]

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Passion in Hair Restoration and in Everything

Published on April 9, 2012 by

At times I get the question during a consultation, “What makes you better than [fill in the blank name]”? Even though I may spend 30 minutes detailing every little nuance of what makes us better: a more artistically designed and customized hairline, better donor harvesting and donor closure, better recipient site creation, more gentle graft […]

Filed under: female hair transplant, recipient site creation, passion, hairline, hair transplant, hair graft placement, hair graft dissection, donor closure, male hair transplant