Patient’s Profile:

Name – Omar Khan (Name changed for privacy concern)

Age – 40

Sex – Male

Norwood’s Classification of Male Pattern Alopecia:

Grade 6

Plan for the patient:

To cover the scalp in 2-3 sittings:

1st sitting: 3000 grafts; second sitting after 6-8 months

Area Covered: Frontal half

Estimated Grafts to be extracted –3200

Technique Used: FUE

Donor Area: Scalp

Procedure Details: The donor area was very good. The density of hair was around 100 FU/cm2.

The donor area was also very large. Therefore, we were easily able to extract 3000 grafts very quickly (within 2.5hrs) with minimum wastage (around 2%)

Results:

The results seemed to be overwhelming owing to the high quality of grafts. Before & after Pictures:

Before

After

Second Sitting:

Area to Be Covered: Middle Scalp

Estimated Grafts to be extracted – 3200

Technique Used: FUE

Donor Area: Scalp

Procedure Details: The donor area was still very good and we were able to extract 3000 grafts again with a wastage of around 3%.

3^rd Sitting:

Area to Be Covered: Crown

Estimated Grafts to be extracted – 2000

Technique Used: FUE

Donor Area: Scalp

Procedure Details: We were able to extract around 1900 grafts with wastage of around 3% again.

3^rd Sitting:

Area to Be Covered: Crown

Estimated Grafts to be extracted – 2000

Technique Used: FUE

Donor Area: Scalp

Procedure Details: We were able to extract around 1900 grafts with wastage of around 3% again.

Therefore, a total of 8100 grafts were extracted.