Hair Transplant Blog

Correction of a hair loss in only one session. This patient received 3392 grafts, so 6615 hair.
The results shown on the pictures are after 3 months and after 9months. Those are already definitive results.

I always had fine hair and when I was young I had to use hair spray to keep my hair in place. I began losing my hair in the forehead at the age of 30 and around 40 it started on the top. Fine hair and less hair is the worst combination. So I let my hair grow in order to cover the top as much as possible with longer hair going from one side to the other. So every time I had to do a lot of styling work on my hair.The system used to cover the top was totally inefficient when it was too windy, when it was raining, when I went to the swimming pool or when I was making any sport activity. So I started thinking about hair transplant surgery.
What hair loss treatments have worked best for me?I did not use any treatment till I was 50, then I started to use twice a year a treatment based on AMINEXIL it was helpful because it make your hair thicker but you can’t recover the loss hair so I didn’t want to make other experimentation and I decided to go ahead with a hair transplantation.
Am I happy with my hair transplant experience and the results?

The only complaint I have is against me: why didn’t I started sooner?

I visited several internet sites on the subject and finally the Belgian surgeon I selected was Dr Jean Devroye, he practises is art in a private clinic in Brussels in Belgium and also in New York. I booked my appointment for a consultation in September 2006. He spent nearly 1 hour with me explaining the hair transplant procedure, the recommendation for me based upon the photos I submitted and answering all of my questions, together we decided the strategy in order to fullfill my requirements with the target to transplant as much hair as possible during this procedure.

October 15th was D day what I can resume from that moment. It wasn’t painful, the 5-6 persons team he his working with is very professional. I spent a long time with them, 12 hours to transplant 3200 grafts, the last hour it was what I call “fine tuning” because it was adjusting the height of the grafts in the holes, not to deep not to high…., this is really the state of the art.

Finally the results exceeded my deepest wishes, I was very lucky to see my hair starting to grow immediately with little loss of the transplanted hair. And after three months I already had an excellent and promising result. 6600 hairs added make a lot of difference.

I’m not thankful enough for this astonishing work.

What hair loss treatments would I recommend?

As I didn’t do any, it’s difficult for me to recommend products, but what I can say is :don’t hesitate to go for the ultimate treatment and book your hair transplant surgery, but take your time to choose for the best surgeons possible, it’s worth it and it’s not wasted money versus the money you can spend on different products. Hair transplant is really the best you can get.

How has hair restoration surgery changed my life?

Now, I can enjoy jumping in the swimming pool and I don’t need anymore to hide from the wind ,what a pleasure to feel the wind in your hair, and by the way … they all say I’m looking younger.

My general advice and suggestions.

Don’t hesitate and go for it!!

Doctor,
In August, I have had an hair transplant (not with you but with another serious surgeon, who is registered at the National medical association too) on my back area and I think I am feeling the hair coming out of my head. I already had a hair transplant with this Doctor, about 3 years ago, and I was really happy about the final result. At the beginning of August I asked him to perfect the previous surgery because a little line was hairless…but what worries me is the fall of the grafts implanted three years ago. In fact, although grafts existed on the left side of my front area, now I have this hairless strip. A few days ago this Doctor told me, once more, that the older grafts are going to grow back. If I am still worried, and I needed to ask to another specialist his advice, it is because after 4 months those grafts did not grow back (they fall 2 weeks after the second surgery). That is why I would like to know if the grafts that I lost (because of the anaesthesia? of the shock due to the new grafts placed next to them? …) will grow back for sure, and never fall again like the former ones?

Considering this hair loss process, it seems that you had a shock loss. Even if usually the shock loss occurs on the third month. Shock loss concerns, very often, already existent hair especially if there is a high degree of miniaturisation and it is linked to the degree of aggressiveness of the procedure. Personally, I am always extremely careful when there is a risk of shock loss. I never use adrenaline, and I reduce the number of incisions. I always ask my patients to take propecia and to use minoxidil during the weeks preceding the surgery. A shock loss of former grafts is very rare, really unusual. In spite of the fact that when you lose hair because of a hair transplant it can be permanent, with former grafts it is very exceptional if they do not grow back. That is why I recommend you to wait a couple of months before to consider a correction…