Hair Transplantation for Men:... Video Transcript

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And they stay in that phase for a period of time that varies somewhat, but generally is two to three months. It's like being asleep.

Then they wake up, the early-risers wake up around eight weeks, which is two months. The late sleepers can wake up as late as six months, but most of them are awake and growing by four months. They produce a hair shaft, which increase in length by about a half an inch a month. So in the typical male patient, we can get a post-op photo showing the significant improvement in the hair density between six and seven months, sometimes five months.

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MICHAEL REED: Well the procedure is completed and it went very well. There were no problems; everything went according to our plan. And we expect the patient to get a most excellent result in just one hair transplant. This transplant should really stand the test of time. He may want to do more in the future to get more coverage. He may want to do more in the front to get a more natural look. Bu the goal of this procedure was to show the people watching how we can achieve an optimal hair transplant, meaning a best: not a minimum one and not a maximum one, but the best, which is called an optimum transplant.

Tonight he'll go home in a head dressing to keep from bleeding; a pressure dressing to keep him protected so he doesn't disrupt any of the grafts we put in. Tomorrow he'll come back here. We'll remove the dressing and we'll put him in this unit, which is called the Scalp Debridement Unit. He'll lie back here; his face will come out. And there are oscillating water jets which will go through various computer generated cycles of cleaning and debriding his scalp. It'll get him all cleaned up; it'll prevent any infection; and it'll make his post-op period much more pleasant because patients oftentimes are afraid to wash their hair. And they'll go through a very unpleasant post-op period if they don't do it. So we do it for them here. It makes it a lot nicer for him. Okay?

After that, we'll put a much smaller post-op dressing on, just over the front of his scalp, with an Ace bandage on for a couple of days to prevent swelling of his forehead and his eyes. He'll take a painkiller if he needs it because it can be sore in the back, although it's not sore in the top of the head. He'll also take some cortisone by mouth to reduce the potential swelling that can happen after a surgical procedure of the forehead and around the eyes, which happens in a small percentage of people but goes away quickly. He'll take an antibiotic to prevent infection. He'll have his sutures removed in 10 days. By two weeks, he'll be back to full activity and in six months, he'll have a new restored head of hair in that frontal region where we worked. We look forward to a great result. And we hope that you enjoyed the program.

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