Now comes my friend Dave. Dave approached me a few years ago about having his own repair work with Dr. Wong. After we got to know each other a bit and we had a few discussions we came up with the idea of video taping, in it’s entirety, his journey to Vancouver, his thoughts before his arrival, the surgery, the post-op daily for the first week ,then monthly updates to the first year. He agreed and one year later I had all material I needed. What I didn’t count on was the amount of editing that was necessary to make any sense of it! So, unfortunately Dave’s videos sat and languished for a few years. Now I have the first few edited and I am sharing them with you now. There will be several videos altogether (I don’t know exactly how many) but you will eventually see Dave with his one year result as well as a hair cut by his stylist.

Dave has a great sense of humor that is dry and witty so hopefully you find this not only informative but enjoyable too.

Part I – Dave’s History

Part II – Dave’s Expectations

Part III – Dave’s Journey to Vancouver

Part IV – Dave’s thoughts during surgery – part 1

Part V – Dave’s thoughts during surgery – part 2

Part VI – Procedure is complete + post op instructions

Part VII – Dave back at the hotel after his procedure

Part VIII – First morning after surgery, sleeping during the 1st night

Part IX – Dave is headed home and Day 2

Part X – Dave shows his progress at day 3, 4 and 5

Part XI – Day 6 and 8 and Dave finally gets his staples out!

Part XII – Day 9 and Dave’s first hair cut

Part XIII – Days 17 and 23 post-op progress report

Part XIV – Hair transplant 1 month post op mark

Part XV – Dave shows his month 2 and month 3 hair transplant progress

Part XVI – Dave shares his results so far at 5 and 6 months post-op

Part XVII – Month 8 progress report and another hair cut

Part XVIII – One year post-op results and visit to his hair stylist

The rest of the story from Nowpublic.com

Dr. Jörg Gerlach’s Skin Gun: Healing Burn Victims Within Days

Dr. Jörg Gerlach at teh McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (University of Pittsburgh) has developed a “skin gun”, which sprays stem cells harvested from a burn victim which are redeployed to speed up the healing process. The effect is dramatic: serious burns are healed in days instead of months.

The skin gun looks sort of like an airbrush, or maybe something that the medical droid in Empire Strikes Back would use. The patient’s skin stem cells are held in a water solution. The turnaround time from biopsy to cell prep to spray-on: an hour and a half.

Many victims of severe burns die not from the burns themselves, but from infections that take hold during the healing process. Reducing the healing time in turn reduces the risk and rate of infection.

The video is long, and boring, so I tried to spice it up a bit with my quirky sense of humor, hence the “unofficial” moniker:)

Summary of Points:

1.) Think about what you are doing. You are submitting photos for a SURGICAL evaluation. Don’t leave this task to a cell phone camera, regardless of megapixels. Higher megapixels does not equate higher focus and higher clarity. Go to Walmart and buy a 100.00 camera!

2.) Don’t hold the camera at sixteen different angles above your head. This will increase the likelihood of camera shake which means a blurry image. Place the camera on a shelf or counter top and “pose” for the camera. If you have a tri-pod then use that.

3.) Don’t take photos with the light source behind you. This “blinds” the camera. Have your main source of light behind the camera.

4.) Be sure to include the left profile, the right profile, the top, the back, donor area density and the full frontal face image. These are confidential so they won’t be used publicly. Doctors need to see the height of your hairline relative to your eyebrows for perspective.

5.) If you had had HT surgery in the past then by all means SHOW the donor scarring, be it strip or FUE. This one image can make or break an evaluation so be sure to include it.

6.) Don’t style your hair the way you normally do to hide the weakness. You can’t expect the doctor to make a reasonably accurate evaluation if you are hiding what concerns you. Expose the weakness as much as you can.

7.) DON’T USE FLASH. This makes your hair look completely different than in reality.

For proper disclosure you should know that while I currently work for Hasson & Wong Clinic, I did not work for them when I had my first two procedures with Dr. Wong. The documentation was unbiased and in real time.

If you are a would-be hair transplant patient, I hope you can learn something from my experience. Take a look at my hair transplant photos, and read my story. If you have any questions, contact me. I’ll try to answer and may even post that answer on the blog to help other hair loss sufferers.

Here is one of the videos showing  my hair restoration results after my third hair transplant with Dr. Wong.

hair transplants by Hasson & Wong