The patient came to Dr Cooley for corrective work from a previous hair transplant. Although he lives in Charlotte, for his first hair transplant he traveled out of state only to be received a bad results from an unethical surgeon. After doing some research online he learned that one of the best hair transplant physicians lives in his home city. Fortunately for him, Dr. Cooley has a background in plastic surgery and was able to correct most of the damage from pitting and poor graft placement caused by the previous surgeon during his first hair transplant. Dr. Cooley punched out the pluggy grafts and incorporated minor alopecia reduction to help conceal some of the pitting damage from the previous work.

The scar from the first procedure was also placed too low to be safely combined or reduced with the new strip scar, but the patient was pleased nonetheless with all of the progress that has been made.

Once these grafts have grown in he should have a fairly well covered mid vertex area and defined hairline. The patient will need one more procedure if he decides to achieve thin coverage on the crown. For now Dr. Cooley and his staff concentrated on filling in the front 2/3 of the scalp as this was the most important area.