Hair Transplant, Hair Restoration & Repair
110 East 55th Street, New York, NY
Telephone: 212-826-2400
Q: I hear you leave staples in sometimes up to three weeks. Why do you leave staples in that long?
A: My reason for leaving some staples in longer is that the tensile strength of the wound continues to increase (significantly) during the first three week period after surgery — actually, it will continue to gain strength for up to one year post-op. To give the wound the best chance to heal, on average, I take out alternating staples at 10 days and the remaining staples at 20 days.
Q: I would like to have the donor area from an old hair transplant repaired so it does not show the scar when I cut my hair shorter. What are my options?
A: Widened scars can be improved in two ways: they can be re-excised to make the scar finer, or hair can be placed into the scar to make it less visible.
Q: I recall that you wrote an article about Monocryl for the donor closure in hair transplants. Why are you now using staples? A: I have been using staples in almost all of our follicular unit hair transplants since the beginning of 2006. When we published the Sutures vs. Staples study in 2001, some doctors [...]
Q: Could you tell me in case there is an infection at the donor area following a hair transplant, will it prevent the hair to grow after healing if the donor area closed by Trichophytic Closure? What are the problems which may the infection cause? A: Infection may cause the donor incision to heal more [...]
Q: I understand that even if you have multiple hair transplants you will only be left with one scar in the donor area. A: If the closure is performed without tension, each procedure should result in the same fine scar. The best-placed incision is in the mid-portion of the permanent donor area. Since there is [...]
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