Brandy DA

[BACKGROUND] Although single-scar techniques have been published and are used by approximately half of all surgeons, this approach is not as common as one might suspect. [OBJECTIVE] The objective is to demonstrate several surgical gems tha…

[BACKGROUND] Temperoparieto-occipital flaps (Juri flap) and temperoparietal flaps (Elliott) were commonly performed in the previous decades but have fallen out of favor for the most part with the development of follicular unit hair transpla…

[BACKGROUND] As the human face ages, there is a depletion of fat that occurs in the submalar region. Various techniques such as fat transfers, fillers, alloplastic implants, and composite rhytidectomies have been used to augment this area i…

[BACKGROUND] When using follicular hair transplantation on patients with early male or female pattern baldness, there can be significant trauma to preexisting hair follicles. This becomes especially important in view of the fact that finast…

[BACKGROUND] Hair restoration surgeons have historically taught that the hairline should be placed high on men undergoing hair restoration surgery. [OBJECTIVE] To evaluate the position of the anterior-most aspect of the frontal forelock on…

This article introduces new instrumentation to the field of hair transplantation surgery. These new instruments include differential spear blades for better sharpness and versatility, a graft counter for facilitation of the counting process…

[BACKGROUND] Mathematics is prevalent in almost all aspects of life, and so it is with hair restoration surgery. This article explores some of the mathematical relationships that exist in this quickly growing subspecialty of cosmetic surger…

[BACKGROUND] This paper compares the scalp kinetics of the scalp-lifting procedures with and without an intact occipital neurovascular bundle. [OBJECTIVE] The objective of this paper is to perform lateral scalp-lifts and observe if an inta…

[BACKGROUND] This article describes a technique for transplanting hair from the chest to the balding scalp. [OBJECTIVE] The objective is to describe an alternative route of harvesting donor hair in the situation when donor scalp hair is de…

[BACKGROUND] Because the Frechet-style triple hair-bearing transposition flaps use up a great deal of scalp laxity from both occipitoparietal areas, it is virtually impossible to perform simultaneous donor harvesting for hair transplantatio…

[BACKGROUND] Circumferential scalp reduction combined with a suture-in-place Silastic-Dacron extender is described as a viable alternative for those surgeons wishing not to perform extensive scalp-lifting. The primary advantage of the Silas…

BACKGROUND. Over the past decade, minigrafting has become the cornerstone of effective hair transplantation because the "corn row" appearance commonly seen with larger grafts occurs frequently with smaller grafts. However, there still has n…

The author presents a variation of a previously described 3 step hair transplantation approach. Besides reducing a step from the more widely used 4 step approach, this methodology entails developing the hairline with a gradation of 1 and 2 …

In the past, local field block anesthesia for retromammary breast augmentation has usually been performed with spinal needles. In this article, I present an alternative, a cannula-like needle that delivers large amounts of very dilute local…