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I had my procedure with Dr. Wolf nearly 2 weeks ago today. I flew out from the UK (flight 8 hours) to Cinicinnati. Dr. wolf had someone meet me at the airport and they took me to the hotel. I chose the closest hotel to Dr. Wolf's office which was only a couple of minutes by car. (In fact I was picked up & taken back to the hotel every time I went to the office).
After I checked in I was taken to Dr. Wolf's office to discuss the procedure so we could save time the next morning and just get straight into the surgery. Dr Wolf spent a lot of time with me discussing the procedure and showing me a lot of photos of previous patients on his computer. He even called another FUE patient in who had come for a post op follow up, so I could see his results (which looked totally natural). Dr. Wolf had previously told me from photos that I would need about 1200 grafts which I wanted to fill in my receded temples, and we had agreed that he would do this over two days.
The next day I arrived at 9 o clock and Dr. Wolf began the procedure. He decided that on the first day he would do my right temple as I had slightly more loss there. The most painful thing was the local anaesthetic jabs, but after that I didn't feel any pain at all.
Dr. Wolf made all the recipient area incisions himself and shared the placing of the grafts between himself and his technicians. All the extractions were done by mainly one technician called Victor, who seemed very skilled. I was sitting upright throughout and able to watch the TV or DVD's.
Most of my donor hair was follicular units of two or three hairs which meant I would probably get good density but they had to split some up in order to create some singles for the hairline. Dr. Wolf was aiming for 50 grafts/cm2.
After the first day I didn't feel any pain during the night, but sleeping sitting upright was uncomfortable. Dr. Wolf provided me with a canister of Graftcyte to spray the recipient area ( I also sprayed the donor area to help healing).
The second day we followed the same procedure for the left temple. In the end I got just over 1200 grafts (I think it was about 1220) with slightly more in the right side.
The day after Dr. Wolf let me hang around in his office as I had to check out of the hotel at 11 o clock and my flight wasn't until 7 o clock in the evening. I just relaxed there and kept spraying my grafts with the Graftcyte. After a final check from Dr. Wolf I was taken to the airport.
Dr. Wolf was very nice the whole time and has some interesting conversation which kept me amused throughout the procedure. His staff were all very nice too and really seemed to care about giving a good result.
In the days following the procedure I had some minor swelling in my forehead which was noticeable to me but wouldn't have been to anyone else.
Now at nearly 2 weeks post op all my donor sites have disappeared and I can't see any of them except for one area at the side of my head where some red dots are still visible. I'm hoping that with time these will fade. I believe that the donor sites at the sides of my head healed slower than those on the back as I think that the pressure of sleeping on the ones at the back helped them close up and scab less.
In the recipient sites I still have the grafts in place (they haven't fallen out yet, but I'm expecting them to) and they even seem to be growing a little. I still have some scabbing on the grafts but not a lot of redness.
I've attached some photos, only after shots since its obvious from the photos how I was before since all my grafts were placed into totally bald skin except for a few which Dr. Wolf blended into the existing hair.
Now I'm just keeping my fingers crossed and waiting for the real growth to kick in!
http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/attachments/IMG_0425.JPG
http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/attachments/IMG_0399.JPG
http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/attachments/IMG_0389.JPG
http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/attachments/IMG_0385.JPG
After I checked in I was taken to Dr. Wolf's office to discuss the procedure so we could save time the next morning and just get straight into the surgery. Dr Wolf spent a lot of time with me discussing the procedure and showing me a lot of photos of previous patients on his computer. He even called another FUE patient in who had come for a post op follow up, so I could see his results (which looked totally natural). Dr. Wolf had previously told me from photos that I would need about 1200 grafts which I wanted to fill in my receded temples, and we had agreed that he would do this over two days.
The next day I arrived at 9 o clock and Dr. Wolf began the procedure. He decided that on the first day he would do my right temple as I had slightly more loss there. The most painful thing was the local anaesthetic jabs, but after that I didn't feel any pain at all.
Dr. Wolf made all the recipient area incisions himself and shared the placing of the grafts between himself and his technicians. All the extractions were done by mainly one technician called Victor, who seemed very skilled. I was sitting upright throughout and able to watch the TV or DVD's.
Most of my donor hair was follicular units of two or three hairs which meant I would probably get good density but they had to split some up in order to create some singles for the hairline. Dr. Wolf was aiming for 50 grafts/cm2.
After the first day I didn't feel any pain during the night, but sleeping sitting upright was uncomfortable. Dr. Wolf provided me with a canister of Graftcyte to spray the recipient area ( I also sprayed the donor area to help healing).
The second day we followed the same procedure for the left temple. In the end I got just over 1200 grafts (I think it was about 1220) with slightly more in the right side.
The day after Dr. Wolf let me hang around in his office as I had to check out of the hotel at 11 o clock and my flight wasn't until 7 o clock in the evening. I just relaxed there and kept spraying my grafts with the Graftcyte. After a final check from Dr. Wolf I was taken to the airport.
Dr. Wolf was very nice the whole time and has some interesting conversation which kept me amused throughout the procedure. His staff were all very nice too and really seemed to care about giving a good result.
In the days following the procedure I had some minor swelling in my forehead which was noticeable to me but wouldn't have been to anyone else.
Now at nearly 2 weeks post op all my donor sites have disappeared and I can't see any of them except for one area at the side of my head where some red dots are still visible. I'm hoping that with time these will fade. I believe that the donor sites at the sides of my head healed slower than those on the back as I think that the pressure of sleeping on the ones at the back helped them close up and scab less.
In the recipient sites I still have the grafts in place (they haven't fallen out yet, but I'm expecting them to) and they even seem to be growing a little. I still have some scabbing on the grafts but not a lot of redness.
I've attached some photos, only after shots since its obvious from the photos how I was before since all my grafts were placed into totally bald skin except for a few which Dr. Wolf blended into the existing hair.
Now I'm just keeping my fingers crossed and waiting for the real growth to kick in!
http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/attachments/IMG_0425.JPG
http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/attachments/IMG_0399.JPG
http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/attachments/IMG_0389.JPG
http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/attachments/IMG_0385.JPG
