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I am back from my first hair transplant, 1465 Grafts FUE, surgeon is dr. CHRISTIAN ******** (I started to work with him as patient coordinator from november 2006, after many meeting with him) !
He works in Bruxelles (Belgium)
25 january: the day much wished comes. I go in clinic at 7.45 am, dr. ******** and his whole staff is waiting for me.
Ritual photo and design pre operation: dr. ******** designs to me a hairline a little bit under my expectations. I ask if it is possible to lower a little more the temples, so dr. ******** re-design a new hairline a lot over my expectations: most natural, with the closing of the angles of temples, closed to the just point, reconstructing therefore also a little in the parietal. I am really happy of my design. I do not see the hour to begin.
I enter in the room op and and the staff give me an oral antibiotic and a Valium, to leave to melt under the tongue, in order to make me relax and to make drowsy.
The operation begins, the staff is composed by:
- dr. Christian ********
- Leith Leonard, a very very good technician, to the point that sometimes he makes small extractions, he was also in training from dr. the Cole in Atlanta, he is the brother of Larry Leonard, that is the surgeon of the GHI clinic in Jacksonville. It works with dr. the ******** from nearly 5 years
- Donetta Dumas (in art DEE ), the other assistant, she comes from the dr Cole's clinic also, much preparated and very skillful in placement grafts, she works with dr. ******** from more than 6 years.
Leith makes me the first anesthesia, a little annoying, but nothing of traumatic. Also because you come informed before. The anesthesia is of the duration of around 30 seconds/1 minute in total, and it is practiced in more zones, to put to sleep the donor area. They made me two anesthesias, one on the left side (above the ear) and another one on the nape (in proximity of the neck). I remind me that I laughed while I was thinking about the fact that this was the most painful phase of the whole operation
After anesthesia, dr. ******** begins to practise the extractions of the UF, starting from the side of the left parietal, for then to go toward the nape to the center. The zone of the right parietal has been virgin. In this phase I don't absolutely feel anything, both for the anesthesia, both because I sleep under the big hands of the dr.********
Il dr. ******** seems a robot, he never gets tired, it is impressive
He used punch 0,75 mm and sometimes 0,8 mm - > I hope and I think I will have not white dots scarrin
The whole harvesting is effected by the dr. ********
They made me the last anesthesia under the forehead, behind the receiving area, and they begin the incisions (the slits), effected always from dr. ********; in the meantime the assistants work to the microscopes.
Then the placement grafts begins: dr. ******** starts, then he leaves the assignment to the two technicians: Dee works on my left temple and Leith on my right temple.
It's 17.30, my operation is Ended .... The time flies, I feel very well (a little upset for the anaesthetic effect but all is ok), no pain, no bother, nothing, zero... rather...
In total I received 1465 graftses, with a density of 82 uf/cm2 (rigorously single uf) on the first line, of 65 uf/cm2 (multiple uf) on the second line, and of 60 uf/cm2 on the third line. Around 800 grafts are single, the remainders are multiple.
At the end of operation, they give me all the necessary for the post operation:
- shampoo betadine, to begin to use 2 days after the operation
- salty solution, to begin to sprinkle on the recipient the morning after the operation, every 1 / 2 hours
- cream with hydrocortison 1%, and also aloe vera, to apply on the donor the evening of the following day to the operation, twice a day
- 3 antibiotics, one to be taken later, in the same evening and the others two the day after (morning and evening)
- 4 pain-killers: never used and never necessary for me.
It doesn't seem me true, the intervention has been a walk, the FUE is Magic for me, I have new temples and a new hairline and I don't have scar, it is not understood from where hair has been withdrawn. I am very well and I don't feel pain, no problem, so much that the same evening I sleeps quietly in my bed (at 45%, slightly raised with the back to avoid swellings).
Now I must only wait for first results, and I cannot wait for seeing them!
I am back from my first hair transplant, 1465 Grafts FUE, surgeon is dr. CHRISTIAN ******** (I started to work with him as patient coordinator from november 2006, after many meeting with him) !
He works in Bruxelles (Belgium)
25 january: the day much wished comes. I go in clinic at 7.45 am, dr. ******** and his whole staff is waiting for me.
Ritual photo and design pre operation: dr. ******** designs to me a hairline a little bit under my expectations. I ask if it is possible to lower a little more the temples, so dr. ******** re-design a new hairline a lot over my expectations: most natural, with the closing of the angles of temples, closed to the just point, reconstructing therefore also a little in the parietal. I am really happy of my design. I do not see the hour to begin.
I enter in the room op and and the staff give me an oral antibiotic and a Valium, to leave to melt under the tongue, in order to make me relax and to make drowsy.
The operation begins, the staff is composed by:
- dr. Christian ********
- Leith Leonard, a very very good technician, to the point that sometimes he makes small extractions, he was also in training from dr. the Cole in Atlanta, he is the brother of Larry Leonard, that is the surgeon of the GHI clinic in Jacksonville. It works with dr. the ******** from nearly 5 years
- Donetta Dumas (in art DEE ), the other assistant, she comes from the dr Cole's clinic also, much preparated and very skillful in placement grafts, she works with dr. ******** from more than 6 years.
Leith makes me the first anesthesia, a little annoying, but nothing of traumatic. Also because you come informed before. The anesthesia is of the duration of around 30 seconds/1 minute in total, and it is practiced in more zones, to put to sleep the donor area. They made me two anesthesias, one on the left side (above the ear) and another one on the nape (in proximity of the neck). I remind me that I laughed while I was thinking about the fact that this was the most painful phase of the whole operation
After anesthesia, dr. ******** begins to practise the extractions of the UF, starting from the side of the left parietal, for then to go toward the nape to the center. The zone of the right parietal has been virgin. In this phase I don't absolutely feel anything, both for the anesthesia, both because I sleep under the big hands of the dr.********
Il dr. ******** seems a robot, he never gets tired, it is impressive
He used punch 0,75 mm and sometimes 0,8 mm - > I hope and I think I will have not white dots scarrin
The whole harvesting is effected by the dr. ********
They made me the last anesthesia under the forehead, behind the receiving area, and they begin the incisions (the slits), effected always from dr. ********; in the meantime the assistants work to the microscopes.
Then the placement grafts begins: dr. ******** starts, then he leaves the assignment to the two technicians: Dee works on my left temple and Leith on my right temple.
It's 17.30, my operation is Ended .... The time flies, I feel very well (a little upset for the anaesthetic effect but all is ok), no pain, no bother, nothing, zero... rather...
In total I received 1465 graftses, with a density of 82 uf/cm2 (rigorously single uf) on the first line, of 65 uf/cm2 (multiple uf) on the second line, and of 60 uf/cm2 on the third line. Around 800 grafts are single, the remainders are multiple.
At the end of operation, they give me all the necessary for the post operation:
- shampoo betadine, to begin to use 2 days after the operation
- salty solution, to begin to sprinkle on the recipient the morning after the operation, every 1 / 2 hours
- cream with hydrocortison 1%, and also aloe vera, to apply on the donor the evening of the following day to the operation, twice a day
- 3 antibiotics, one to be taken later, in the same evening and the others two the day after (morning and evening)
- 4 pain-killers: never used and never necessary for me.
It doesn't seem me true, the intervention has been a walk, the FUE is Magic for me, I have new temples and a new hairline and I don't have scar, it is not understood from where hair has been withdrawn. I am very well and I don't feel pain, no problem, so much that the same evening I sleeps quietly in my bed (at 45%, slightly raised with the back to avoid swellings).
Now I must only wait for first results, and I cannot wait for seeing them!
