Procedure detail
Forehead reduction or Surgical Hairline Advancement (SHA) and Follicular Unit Strip Transplantation performed on a 27 year old Caucasian female with:
- A hereditary high hairline
- Minigrafts in hairline after hair transplant surgery ex domo (2009)
- Donor density of ca. 80-88 FU/cm2
- Hair diameter of ca. 72-78 microns
Treatment plan:
- A Botox treatment 2 weeks prior to the surgery to prepare the recipient area for the surgical hairline advancement;
- Surgical hairline advancement and extraction of several wrong-placed minigrafts;
- A Follicular Unit Strip Transplantation with 1000-1500 FU to reconstruct the entire hair line zone and extraction of some wrong-placed minigrafts.
Performed procedures
1st Procedure (November 28th, 2012)
Wound closing in double layer suture technique;
Extraction of wrong-placed minigrafts with a 0.9mm – 1.0mm punch.
2nd Procedure (April 22nd, 2013)
A Follicular Unit Strip Transplantation with 1790 FU
* 579 single hair FU
* 1211 double and triple hair FU
Donor closing in double layer suture technique;
Parallel incisions (single, double and triple units) were made in custom-sized blades technique (~Cutting Edge blades of 0.75mm – 0.85mm);
Extraction of wrong-placed minigrafts with a 0.9mm – 1.0mm punch.
Dr. B. Feriduni
