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 Dr. Lee is the founder and owner of Regrowth LLC, a company based in Los Angeles and dedicated to the treatment of hair loss. He has been developing innovative products and treating hair loss sufferers for the past 16 years. Dr. Lee is the creator of the Xandrox line of hair loss treatments.
Important Note: Due a busy schedule, Dr. Lee cannot answer any new questions at this time; however, he will be providing high quality answers to questions he receives from his own practice exclusively to Morphollica.com regularly
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2005-05-15
Current hair transplant results that can be expected
How good are the results of current hair transplantation techniques?
In fact, under experienced hands, modern hair transplants are virtually
undetectable, even with close inspection of the scalp. The techniques and,
subsequently, the results of the evolving field of hair restoration have been
very impressive over the past few decades. Unfortunately, much of the general
public still perceives hair transplantation as being comparable to the plugs
of hair seen in dolls or the placement of bristles in a toothbrush. The truth
is one does not see the results of modern hair restoration surgeries,
because they look so natural. Orentreich first described the 4mm
multiple-punch autographs in 1959. Not until Bradshaws description of
minigrafts in 1984 and Limmers first use of follicular units in 1988, did the
results of hair restoration surgeries begin to achieve a more natural
appearance. The most widely utilized methods of hair restoration surgery today are (1)
microscopic dissection of follicular unit grafts, and (2) the increasingly
popular technique of follicular unit extraction (FUE). In the traditional method of microscopic dissection, the follicular units are
removed from the donor area in the occiput by single-bladed elliptical
excision and carefully and microscopically dissected beneath the binocular
stereoscope. The donor tissue is trimmed into follicular units and reimplanted
into the balding area using a needle tunnel or small slit incision. In the FUE method, a specially designed surgical punch is used to remove
single follicular units from the donor area for transplantation to the
recipient site. This surgical technique has the advantages, at least
theoretically, of a more rapid recovery, minimal or undetectable scarring,
more rapid graft growth, and the possible expansion of total available donor
sites. The disadvantages include a significantly increased surgical time
necessary to transplant any fixed number of follicular units and a steeper
learning curve for the surgeon in order to achieve excellent results. Richard Lee, M.D.,
Regrowth, LLC,
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