Dr. Carlos K. Wesley (NYC)

[billena]

Patients are often pleasantly surprised to learn during their initial consultation that our practice does not require patients to shave their head for a follicular unit transplantation (FUT) procedure. As Dr. Wesley (NYC) operates on only one patient per day, it is much easier to take the time to carefully navigate around the pre-existing hairs during recipient site creation.

The benefit to patients occurs not only in the immediate short term (7-10 days) postoperatively when the redness can be better camouflaged by the longer native hairs, but also during the first few months of early growth when the transplanted hairs are just beginning to grow and provide coverage and density.

Here is a recent example of a patient who underwent a session of over 2700 grafts to the caudal region of his scalp. You can see that by being able to comb his longer, pre-existing hairs over the incoming base of new hair, he is able to effectively camouflage the new growth and continue to lead a normal lifestyle.

 

[Bigmac]

Hi bilenna,
Do you have any pictures immediately post op so we can see how the patient looked.
Thanks Bm.

 

[Winters]

Do you have a session size before the patient is required to shave the recipient site?

 

[bullitnut]

I have seen people asking whether or not they have to shave down many many times over the years, for a lot of people this will be a major deciding factor in whether or not to have a HT. Its great that people have this option at your clinic as it allows them to get back to their normal life that little bit quicker.

 

[Bastion]

If you can hide away for two to three weeks shaving is fine, otherwise it can be worrying.