From time to time, when I am speaking with patients, I get a question that is perfectly logical. If Hasson & Wong are known for performing larger sessions, on a regular basis than any other clinic, why then did it take three sessions for me to get almost 8000 grafts instead of two? Well, my journey with Dr. Wong started a long time ago (relatively speaking). My first surgery with Dr. Wong was in March, 2002. At that time the largest sessions performed anywhere was near 2500 to 3000 grafts and that was on virgin scalps. I had 2406 in my first hair transplant surgery with Dr. Wong and I was NOT a virgin patient. I had two wide donor scars stacked one over the other. For Dr. Wong to move 2406 grafts AND remove two donor scars in the same session was simply astounding for that era. This was before the 4000, 5000 and even more grafts in one session days.

My second and third sessions, interestingly enough, coincided and even reflected the refinements and improvements being made to the procedure because in each subsequent surgery I went through my graft count actually INCREASED whereas traditionally subsequent procedures usually yield fewer grafts. All said, I receive 7917 grafts in three procedures over the course of 22 months. By the time I had my third procedure Dr. Wong and Dr. Hasson had already refined their surgical procedures to allow for more grafts in one session than other clinics and the refinements continue to this day. Not so much in getting more grafts, because there is obviously and end point to what is possible, but in the overall procedure itself.

Had I walked into the clinic in 2002 as a virgin scalp I’m positive I would have been the first patient to get 4000 or more in one session. Oddly enough if I had it to do all over again I don’t think that I’d change a thing because going through the surgeries really helped to put this procedure into perspective for me and has allowed me to truly relate to what others have gone through since then.

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