Author Archive for Victor Hasson, MD

Dr. Hasson performs surgery in a modern, fully accredited surgical facility designed specifically for hair restoration. He and his partner, Dr. Jerry Wong, are the originators of the lateral slit technique, which provides more improved naturalness, density and coverage for his patients. Dr. Hasson has invented a special tool that allows for customsizing of blades to match the size of the follicular unit being placed in the scalp. This results in higher densities, better coverage of underlying scalp and virtually no scarring in the recipient scalp. This tool has now been adopted by many of the world’s leading clinics and is currently being used in 59 countries. Dr. Hasson believes that harvesting larger numbers of grafts in one procedure is imperative for helping patients to realize their hair restoration goals. Fewer procedures benefit the patient as there is reduced cost, reduced scarring and reduced overall down time. He is recognized for his “one pass approach” that usually achieves desired density for the patient in one procedure instead of two or three. Dr. Hasson performs procedures, on average, of 3500 to 4500 follicular unit grafts per day, per patient and routinely harvests over 5000 follicular unit grafts in one session. Dr. Hasson’s cutting edge approach and philosophy has raised the bar for the entire hair restoration industry. Dr. Hasson is a member of the International Alliance of Hair Restoration Surgeons and recommended by the American Hair Loss Association. Visit Dr. Hasson's Website: www.hassonandwong.com

Concerned About Scar Stretchback - Should I Have An FUE Hair Transplant or a Strip Procedure?

The one thing that I keep reading about is the possibility of having a large or stretched scar from a strip hair transplant. I am seriously considering a hair transplant but this gives me pause. FUE would seem to solve this problem but I have not seen results that match strip hair transplants. Can scar stretching be prevented somehow and are there any new techniques to address this issue.

This is a good question. We believe that the scarring from FUE is under reported as we have seen numerous cases where the scarring from FUE is quite evident even with less than a shaved donor area. While the scarring we have seen with direct visualization has been fairly common we also find that the sub dermal scarring from FUE is even more prevalent when we are removing a donor strip on a patient that has undergone a previous procedure using FUE.

Wide donor scarring, or “stretch back”, is not common in our practice and is rarely seen. This is because we take measures during our strip excision to help prevent this from occurring. Read more