Hair Restoration Surgery in Asians

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Back to the Future: A Brief but Significant History of Hair Transplantation in Asians....Pages 3-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Prevalence of Male Pattern Baldness in Asian Men....Pages 11-13
Knowing the Difference in Restoring the Asian Look....Pages 15-20
Asian Hair: A Korean Study....Pages 21-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
The Key to Success in Consultation....Pages 25-26
Hair Restoration Surgery in Poor Candidates....Pages 27-31
Preoperative Approach to Preexisting Scalp Lesions....Pages 33-36
Planning for Ultra-Refined Follicular Unit Transplantation and the Hairline Design....Pages 37-39
Laser-Assisted Rapid Hairline Placement....Pages 41-46
When to Restore the Temple Area....Pages 47-48
Crown: Area of Concern....Pages 49-50
Should We Use Single or Multiple FU Grafts in Asians?....Pages 51-53
Advantages of Microvascular Free Scalp Flap Transfer as a Means of Hair Transplantation....Pages 55-58
Is There a Place for Scalp Flap in Modern Hair Restoration Surgery?....Pages 59-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Medical Treatment of Hair Loss....Pages 65-69
The Use of Herbal Medicine....Pages 70-71
Is There a Place for Oral Minoxidil? An Overview....Pages 73-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Preoperative Care for Super Mega-Sessions....Pages 81-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Safe Use of Local Anesthesia and Tumescence Fluid in the Donor Site as an Office-Based Procedure....Pages 85-89
Preparing for a Painless Surgery: Medication or Meditation?....Pages 91-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Site Selection in Donor Harvesting: A Long and Winding Road....Pages 97-101
The Strip: How Long, How Wide, and Where?....Pages 103-107
A Refined Open Donor Harvesting to Minimize Follicular Transection....Pages 109-115
Other Methods of Donor Harvesting....Pages 117-120
Omnigraft™....Pages 121-123
Donor Wound Closure....Pages 125-130
Donor Strip Removal and Wound Closure in Super Mega-Session: My Personal Technique....Pages 131-132
Follicular Unit Extraction in the Asian Population....Pages 133-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Slivering and Graft Cutting....Pages 143-145
An Alternative Way of Graft Cutting....Pages 146-147
Graft Dissection in Super Mega-Session: My Personal Technique....Pages 149-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Dense Packing....Pages 153-154
Premade Incisions: When and Where to Begin....Pages 155-157
Why Lateral Slits?....Pages 159-161
A Debate over Premade Incisions Versus “Stick and Place”....Pages 163-164
Technique of Fast and Efficient Graft Insertion....Pages 165-167
Implanter....Pages 169-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Hair Restoration Surgery in Asian Women....Pages 175-183
Hair Restoration Surgery in Transsexual Males....Pages 185-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Repair of Iatrogenic Scarring and Non-Scarring Alopecia from Cosmetic Surgery....Pages 191-195
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Cicatricial Alopecia in Hair Transplantation....Pages 197-199
The Repair of Unwanted Plugs....Pages 201-204
Repair of Scalp Flap....Pages 205-208
Repair of Artificial Fiber Implantation....Pages 209-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Eyebrow Transplant....Pages 215-221
Eyelash Transplant....Pages 223-226
Sideburn Transplant....Pages 227-229
Mustache Transplant....Pages 231-234
Chest Hair Transplant....Pages 235-238
Pubic Hair Transplant....Pages 239-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Postoperative Care....Pages 247-248
Postoperative Instruction Sheet Used in Our Clinic....Pages 249-252
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Complications and the Solutions....Pages 255-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Marketing and Management....Pages 267-269
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
Hair Cloning and Follicular Cell Implantation....Pages 273-275
New Tools for Hair Transplants....Pages 277-278
Application of Stem Cells in Hair Restoration Surgery....Pages 279-284
Back Matter....Pages 285-292