A single hair transplant can transform your look from receding, or thinning, to full and thick. This patient had obvious thinning taking place in the frontal hairline area, and in just 7 months has achieved a restored thickness and fullness. Congratulations to this patient and we look forward to seeing your improved results over the next 5 months!
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Don’t Let This Happen To You!
There are many options for patients to choose from today when having a procedure. Who to choose, and what method is best for you, can be daunting.
This is a patient who went elsewhere and is asking our opinion on what to do for his next procedure.
His goal was to get as much hair as possible in one procedure. He opted for a strip procedure and an FUE hair transplant.
Transplanted Area
Donor Area
As you can see, his donor area is now almost completely destroyed from the poor decision he made. The FUE hair transplant method involves taking hairs outside the safe area. That means he can lose the transplants in the future, as hair outside the safe zone is vulnerable to DHT, the hormone that causes hair loss. Ethically, Dr. Bolton believes the only hairs that should be harvested are the ones from the safe zone.
Even with both of these methods combined, he was unable to achieve total coverage. It also took 3 days to get this yield.
His doctor advised him to do a strip and FUE to maximize the amount of hair in one procedure.
Here is the breakdown as to what he got.
The strip was 28 cm x 1 cm which yielded 809 one hair grafts, 1414 2 hair grafts, 287 3 hair grafts and zero 4 or 5 hair grafts. The total was 2510 grafts yielding 4498 hairs according to his doctor. (Less then 2 hairs per graft) You cannot get much density with primarily 1 and two hair grafts behind the hair line.
Note that most doctors will tell you that you are getting one, two, three, four and five hair grafts when you do a procedure, when that isn’t usually the case. What they don’t tell you is that most are one and two and few if any 4 or 5 hair grafts. It is not uncommon that doctors will subdivide grafts to make more as the more they make the more they can charge. For example, a four hair graft is chopped in two and the revenue is doubled and you did not get more hair. What is interesting about this gentleman’s two procedures is in the strip he didn’t get any 4 or 5 hair grafts but in the FUE he did. That is proof his grafts were manipulated down to create a higher number and thus more revenue.
He then went in two days later to have a FUE procedure. He got 119 one hair grafts, 447 2 hair grafts, 230 3 hair grafts, 17 four hair grafts for a total of 813 grafts yielding 1771 hairs. His total cost was $18,000.
Our reply to this patient is that we feel it is better to come in for one procedure that can yield more hair in less time. It is not unusual for Dr. Bolton to get 10,000 hairs or more and finish the procedure from start to finish in less then 6 hours. There are many patients who can achieve full coverage from front to back. This patient could have gotten over 10,000 hairs in placed in less then 6 hours and achieved coverage from front to back for less money and less scarring.
Why take 28 cm x 1 cm when you can take 35- 40 cm x 1.5 or more cm?
Why average less then 2 hairs a graft when you can help a patient achieve greater density in one procedure using Bolton Bundles?
Please look through this blog and see the many patients who had advanced hair loss and in one procedure in less then 5 hours got extraordinary results.
Below is Dr. Bolton’s Maxharvest Plus™ procedure of one of many patients who flew in from around the world to get the most hair possible in one procedure.
This patient got over 10,000 hairs in one procedure that took less then 5 hours and achieved total coverage from front to back. Look through this blog to see final results of our patients with similar loss.
This picture was taken immediately after the procedure. It is used to show how many transplants were placed and to show the area of coverage.
This is a very unfortunate case of a patient having two doctors who were unskilled for his two procedures. One procedure was done in Poland and the second in England. This is what everyone fears most.
Many doctors have little idea as to what they are doing and patients don’t understand how severe the consequences of using these doctors can be.
The good news is that it can be fixed or made much better. The patient saw over 100 examples of Dr. Bolton’s donor area post operative and made the decision to go out of his way to have the best doctor possible help restore him.
Due to his prior bad experiences the patient was not interested in a hair transplant. He just wanted his scars fixed. He was kind enough to let us use his story to help others who are going through the trauma of a bad result. Dr. Bolton was able to drastically change his fate and revise these massive scars and leave him with only a fine scar line that will be undetectable if he were to grow his hair out a little bit.
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After
The goal of the surgery was just to excise one scar as that is the limit for one procedure. Dr. Bolton not only removed the top scar but was able to transplant hairs into the bottom scar and have enough left over to impact the frontal hair line.
If the patient desired, Dr. Bolton, could have also transplanted a good amount of hair into the frontal hair line, but due to the patients prior bad experiences he was not interested.
In history, machines have replaced humans as a more efficient and productive way to improve the way of doing things. The car replaced the buggy and robots replaced people in auto manufacturing. There is no question that in these two prior examples the replacement is superior to what existed previously.
In hair restoration, there are at least two automated machines that are trying to replace the current methods. However, the machine is not more efficient then the elite doctor it is trying to replace. If a doctor is a beginner in hair restoration, the machine enables him to place an ad and attract business. Most consumers are not savvy enough to ask the right questions. For example, how many years have you been doing this, and may I see pictures of your patients’ results?
The capabilities of the machine pale in comparison to Dr. Bolton’s skills.
The machine is limited to a best case scenario of about 4,000 hairs in a day.
The machine cannot be used for curly hair.
Dr. Bolton is not limited by the type of hair you have.
Dr. Bolton has transplanted up to 14,000 hairs in less then 6 hours.
That means Dr. Bolton is able to yield three times more hair in less then half the time.
The machine has zero ability to create natural hair lines or angle the hair from the scalp.
The machine cannot get better density then Dr. Bolton.
The machine creates many more scars then Dr. Bolton.
The machine was designed to improve capabilities but doesn’t come close.
The example below is of a man who would have gotten a fraction of the results by having a machine do his procedure. Why would anyone want to minimize their results when the amount of hair you get is directly related to your results?
Dr. Bolton got this gentleman 14,000 hairs and the extraction process took 20 minutes with every hair coming from the safe zone of the donor area, ensuring long term survival.
The machine would be lucky to get 4,000 hairs, which can take all day (8 hours plus) with many hairs outside of the safe area, meaning the hair will fall out again in the future.
I don’t think many people want to experience hair loss twice. Especially when you have to pay a premium for the machine option.
Do you think his results will be better with 4,000 hairs or 14,000 hairs?
We constantly receive requests to show what the scar looks like with a shaved head. This patient shows off his suture line just 10 days after his procedure and the scar is virtually undetectable. It will continue to heal for the next 12 months.
The red dots are from the eyelets of the sutures and will disappear over the next 2 weeks.
The suture line is less recognizable than a common hair part or crease.
