Dean's Story - Procedure 3: The Surgery - Page 1
PROCEDURE 3
On June 10th, 2002, Dean had the third of four anticipated procedures. This procedure was to done to transplant a significant amount of hair to give him the additional coverage he desired. A few remaining plugs were also removed during the course of the procedure
The doctor first started by drawing a line across Dean's forehead where his hairline would be recreated. This was about 3/4 inch lower than the incision scar from his previous procedure.
While the previous two procedures were done to extract the old plugs and redistribute the hairs, this procedure was focused on extracting donor hair from the back of his head to add density and remove some of the open donor scarring.
During this procedure a donor strip was removed from the rear of Dean's head 12 inches long and 1 inch wide. This removed some of the open donor scarring at the back of Dean's head. After the donor strip was handed to the technicians for dissection, the doctor used a 3 mm punch to punch out 15 remaining hair plugs which were then also given to the technicians for dissection under the microscope.
A total of 1696 follicular units were transplanted, 1651 were extracted from the donor strip and an additional 45 were extracted from the old hair plugs. Some of the grafts were then placed below the incision scar from the previous surgery and the remaining hairs were transplanted throughout the frontal part of Dean's head.
The entire procedure lasted from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
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