The patient presented in this video had severe hair loss, and was not ready to settle for a bald crown and a higher aged hairline that a traditional hair transplantation would have offered. Having estimated that his head donor supply cannot meet his demand for global coverage, he visited Dr. Umar with the hopes of using BHT and the Umar procedure. Using a combination of head, body and beard hair, Dr. Umar was able to transfer over 15,000 grafts to his entire balding area. The result at 9 months (with still more improvement to occur) is fuller hair with the back and sides of the head still looking pristine and not overharvested and devoid of a strip scar that could have limited his hair styling options significantly. After his procedure with Dr. Umar, the patient was able to sport a crew cut without the fear of exposing a linear scar, and even is left with an ample supply of head and body donor hair for any touch ups or to address future progression of baldness.
In this example, Dr. Sanusi Umar uses beard, nape and head hair by with his Single Follicle Extraction and Transfer (SFET) method to restore and refine a poor hair transplant result that the patient had received from another clinic. Dr. Umar uses non head hair (facial, body) as donor resources for patients that have a relative or absolute lack of traditional donor sources (back of the head). The use of body hair for transplantation is called body hair transplantation (BHT). The technique by which Dr. Umar performs BHT is called SFET. This is his more advanced version of the procedure commonly referred to as Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE).
The patient presented in this video had prior strip surgery at another facility by another hair transplant doctor. After the procedure at the other hair transplant clinic, his hair loss was compounded and actually made worse by a huge strip scar, and a pluggy and straight hairline which looked unnatural, especially when grown out. At the time of the patient's initial consultation with Dr Umar in Los Angeles, his NW 6 area needed coverage, he needed density added to the previously transplanted area, and he needed his largely empty crown filled. The patient wanted his large strip scar to be grafted and his hairline changed to resemble the hairline of a celebrity in a picture he had.
To perform this hair transplant repair surgery, Dr. Umar utilized a body hair transplantation (BHT) procedure, which allowed the doctor to take donor hair from the non-head hair areas of the beard, leg hair, and nape. The recipient areas that used the leg hairs included the hairline and NW 6 area. The NW 6 area and the scar used the beard hairs for restoration, and the NW 6 area also used nape hair.
Having run out of traditional head donor hair, he was left with no hair transplant repair option. He went to see Dr. Umar about using body hair as his only resort. Dr Umar carried out the repair using about 15000 chest, stomach, shoulders hair grafts, 6000 beard and only about 1000 head hair grafts. The procedure was completed in 3 major sessions at 6 monthly intervals. The result shown at the video was recorded at only 6 months after the last repair session. With yet more improvement to follow in the ensuing 9-12 months, the patient's life is already transformed from the progress made thus far to that of fulfillment and confidence.
The patient presented in this video had prior strip surgery at another facility by another hair transplant doctor. After the procedure at the other hair transplant clinic, his hair loss was compounded and actually made worse by a huge strip scar, and a pluggy and straight hairline which looked unnatural, especially when grown out. At the time of the patient's initial consultation with Dr Umar in Los Angeles, his NW 6 area needed coverage, he needed density added to the previously transplanted area, and he needed his largely empty crown filled. The patient wanted his large strip scar to be grafted and his hairline changed to resemble the hairline of a celebrity in a picture he had.
To perform this hair transplant repair surgery, Dr. Umar utilized a body hair transplantation (BHT) procedure, which allowed the doctor to take donor hair from the non-head hair areas of the beard, leg hair, and nape. The recipient areas that used the leg hairs included the hairline and NW 6 area. The NW 6 area and the scar used the beard hairs for restoration, and the NW 6 area also used nape hair.
