UPDATE!

Don't Let This Happen To You!

There are many options for patients to choose from today when having a procedure.  Who to choose and what method is best for you can be daunting.

This is a patient who went elsewhere and is asking our opinion on what to do for his next procedure.

His goal was to get as much hair as possible in one procedure.

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After strip procedure and FUE

Note: FUE involves taking hairs outside the safe area.  That means he can lose the

transplants in the future as hair outside the safe zone is vulnerable to DHT the hormone that causes hair loss.  Ethically, Dr. Bolton believes the only hair that should be harvested are the ones from the safe zone.

Coverage after strip and FUE

Did not achieve total coverage

and took 3 days of this patients time.

His doctor advised him to do a strip and fue to maximize the amount of hair in one procedure.

Here is the breakdown as to what he got.

The strip was 28 cm x 1 cm which yielded 809 one hair grafts, 1414 2 hair grafts, 287 3 hair grafts and zero 4 or 5 hair grafts.  The total was 2510 grafts yielding 4498 hairs according to his doctor. (Less then 2 hairs per graft) You cannot get much density with primarily 1 and two hair grafts behind the hair line.

Note that most doctors will tell you that you are getting one, two, three, four and five hair grafts when you do a procedure.  What they don't tell you is that most are one and two and few if any 4 or 5 hair grafts.  It is not uncommon that doctors will subdivide grafts to make more as the more they make the more they can charge.   For example, a four hair graft is chopped in two and the revenue is doubled and you did not get more hair.  What is interesting about this gentleman's two procedures is in the strip he didn't get any 4 or 5 hair grafts but in the FUE he did. That is proof his grafts were manipulated down to create a higher number and thus more revenue.

He then went in two days later to have a FUE procedure.

He got 119 one hair grafts, 447 2 hair grafts, 230 3 hair grafts, 17 four hair grafts for a total of 813 grafts yielding 1771 hairs.  His total cost was $18,000.

Our reply to this patient is that we feel it is better to come in for one procedure that can yield more hair in less time.  It is not unusual for Dr. Bolton to get 10,000 hairs or more and finish the procedure from start to finish in less then 6 hours.  There are many patients who can achieve full coverage from front to back.  This patient could have gotten over 10,000 hairs in placed in less then 6 hours and achieved coverage from front to back for less money and less scarring.

Why take 28 cm x 1 cm when you can take 35- 40 cm x 1.5 or more cm?

Why average less then 2 hairs a graft when you can help a patient achieve greater density in one 

procedure using Bolton Bundles?

Please look through this blog and see the many patients who had advanced hair loss and in one procedure in less then 5 hours got extraordinary results.

Below is Dr. Bolton's Maxharvest Plus procedure of one of many patients who fly in from around the world to get the most hair possible in one procedure.

This patient got over 10,000 hairs in one procedure that took less then 5 hours and achieved total coverage from front to back.  Look through this blog to see final results of our patients with similar loss.

This is immediately after the procedure.

Confidential Patient Results

Out of town patient gave permission to show his results but to hide his identity.

It is ironic when I speak to prospective patients and they say they see our great results on our site but what about the ones that aren't posted.  Well some of our best results ever don't make it on our site because we don't like the presentation of hidden faces.  It is not as impressive as when you can see the entirety of the patient's face before/after.  I'm not sure the prospective patient believes me when I tell  him that the results that are not on our site can be more impressive then the ones that are.

This is one of the best results ever but the pictures don't do it justice because you don't see the overall change in the patients appearance.  

UPDATE From England!

Patient flew in from England to have Dr. Bolton revise his scars from doctors in Europe.

Unfortunately, for the patient he was scarred severely and was not able to get a result of value.

The transplant was poor and the scars were worse.  

You can scroll through this blog to see where he started.

The patient plans on having tattooing to the remaining scar.

This was the situation prior to coming to Dr. Bolton for scar correction

Massachusetts patient Update!

5 Months after 2nd Procedure

Below is the top of the head 

His case is documented in this blog you can see more by scrolling through

Here is a summary

10 days post-op

10 days post-op

3 Months Post-op

UPDATE!

8 Months Post-OP

Before

Thanks for the great pic! And helping others in their decision making process.

Patient Sends in Pics after 4 Months!

Before

After 4 Months

Patient wants confidentiality

Patient flies in from England

Healing process Day 2-12

Many folks wonder what they look like after the procedure and the next day.

Day 2

No evidence of the suture line

Day 5 and 6

Hair lifted up to show healing at 5 days

(area is shaved)

Day 8

Healing perfectly!  If the area wasn't shaved and the

sutures weren't there you wouldn't see the scar and its only 8 days!

This is why people can fly in and have the procedure and leave 24 hours later and they

won't have any issues.

Cannot see sutures even with the hair wet

Day12

Most of the crusts are off and if the patient wasn't nervous he could have had them

completely off by day 12.  It is normal for our patients to be nervous when washing and shampooing

after the procedure.  After 6 days our patients can wash pretty much the way the did prior to the procedure and the crusts will come off naturally on day 5-12.  The hair is wet and the camera light

exaggerates the detectability.

Thanks to our patient from England for sharing and helping others.

He promised to update his progress every month.

Day 19

Patient flies in from Maryland

MAXHARVEST 8 Month Results

Results should continue to improve for at least 4 more months!

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