Hair Transplant News

Brandy Lift: Correction, repair, and hair transplantation

john@forhair.com (drcole) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:30:58 GMT

The Brandy Lift was developed as a means of lifting hair from the back and sides of the scalp onto the top of the scalp. The procedure resulted in a slot of bald surface area that required rotational flaps to conceal. The procedure also lifted the donor area on the nape of the neck and above the ears superiorly toward the top of the scalp. This resulted in a spacious area of hair loss above the ears and a lack of natural hair on the nape of the neck.

The procedure often covered the scalp well on the top and the back of the scalp, but none on the frontal area. The frontal scalp required grafting from the donor area.

Traditional donor area: The traditional safe donor area was lifted superiorly toward the top of the scalp. This meant that one could harvest higher

Dr. Cole will be speaking at the 2012 Italian Society for Hair Restoration

webmaster@forhair.com (Forhair) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:57:05 GMT

Dr. Cole is planning to the 2012 Italian Society of Hair Restoration surgery meeting.

Dr. Cole will present his latest advances in storage mediums for hair transplant grafts. Dr. Cole will present his new liposomal ATP solution that he soaks his grafts in and also his liposomal ATP mister that is used to nourish the grafts with ATP following surgery. With the liposomal ATP, Dr. Cole's grafts never go hungry. Dr. Cole will also present his findings using a crossectional trichometery reading called hair check that allows Dr. Cole to better screen his patients for surgery, as well as spot early areas of hair loss before they become evident to the patient or the physician.

The ISHR meeting has become a well-established event and has been creating many expectations among among colleagues because it represents, on a National and International level, a very important occasion in Hair

Dr. Patrick Mwamba Visit to Atlanta

webmaster@forhair.com (Forhair) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:50:55 GMT

Patrick Mwamba visited our office today to see some of our new equipment devoted to CIT. Patrick practices hair transplant surgery in Brussels, Belgium. He noted how easily the PCID extracts grafts from the donor area with minimal effort due to the controlled extraction speed and the very sharp surrounded punches that Dr. Cole developed. It was very good to catch up with him after a prolonged absence from our clinic.

ISHRS Meeting in Anchorage, Alaska

webmaster@forhair.com (Forhair) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:49:03 GMT

Dr. Cole recently attended the ISHRS meeting in Anchorage, Alaska from September 14, 2011 through September 17, 2011. During this session, Dr. Cole presented his latest advancements in hair restoration surgery instruments. He also presented his latest findings on Acell and PRP treatments along with Dr. Jerry Cooley, and Dr. Gary Hitzig during a lunchtime symposium devoted to tissue regeneration. Dr. Cole also moderated that session on Body Hair Transplantation. On Saturday morning he presented a breakfast session devoted to Body and Beard Hair Transplantation to a gathering of physicians.

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Hair Transplant Surgery Clinic in London

webmaster@forhair.com (Forhair) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:46:59 GMT

Dr. Cole and HDC will soon open a hair restoration surgery clinic in London, England. The planned opening date is in January 2012. The clinic will focus chiefly on FUE. Dr. Cole plans to offer CIT and C2G FUE at this clinic when it opens. They expect the clinic to be quite busy as there is a need for high quality FUE hair transplant surgery in the UK. Dr. Cole and HDC currently have many patients from the UK. Stay tuned for details on this exciting development.

Dr. Cole Training in South Korea and Singapore

webmaster@forhair.com (Forhair) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:09:58 GMT

Dr. Cole recently traveled to South Korea and Singapore at the end of August and the beginning of September 2011. He spent time evaluating the surgery teams in both regions of Asia and providing continuing medical education related to hair transplant surgery. The Forhair office in Seoul just moved to a new, larger office location that will provide plastic surgery, dermatology, and hair transplant surgery. Dr. Cole spent six days working with both Dr. J.S. Bang and Dr. Tyng Tan in Seoul, South Korea. The entire team in Seoul is doing splendid work. Dr. Bang is producing outstanding results for his patients. All the

Live Hair Transplant Surgery Demonstration in Bangkok, Thailand

webmaster@forhair.com (Forhair) — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:11:31 GMT

On June 26, 2011 Dr. Cole demonstrated CIT in Bangkok, Thailand at the first Asian Association of Hair Restoration Surgery. Over 130 physicians predominately from Asia attended this meeting. A number of physicians from the United States also attended this meeting. Physicians from the USA included Robert True, MD, Glenn Charles, DO, Ron Shapiro, MD, and Paul McAndrews, MD. The meeting was chaired by the 2010-2011 President of the Asian Association of Hair Restoration Surgery, Dr. Damkerng Pathomvanich.. Dr. Pathomvanich invited Dr. Cole to demonstrate his method of FUE, which he calls CIT, as well as present 4 talks devoted to CIT.

Dr. Cole demonstrated his Power Cole Isolation Device (PCID) to the attendees of the live surgery demonstration in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Tan Tyng Yuan, MBBS assisted Dr. Cole in this surgery demonstration. Dr. Tyng Tan was extremely helpful in the training session. Dr. Tyng

Clinical Applications of Acell

john@forhair.com (drcole) — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:39:25 GMT

Acell is a FDA approved bi-modal extracellular matrix useful in regeneration of tissue. For this reason I began working with this product in FUE extraction sites. The objective of this presentation is to stimulate interest in Acell by other physicians with the hope that we will eventually generate clinically significant data to prove or disprove the early clinical findings as they relate to Acell.

With this in mind, let us contemplate how might we multiply the donor area? For years we have focused on hair multiplication and hair cloning. Neither has offered much in the way of hope other than the prospect that we might succeed in the next five years. Unfortunately, we have been saying “in the next five years” for

Growth Rate of Body Hair Obtained by FUE and the Benefits of Acell

john@forhair.com (drcole) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:17:28 GMT

Scalp donor area is the ideal source of hair for transplantation in Androgenic Alopecia. Unfortunately, the scalp donor area is limited in all individuals. For this reason, the availability of alternative sources of donor area is desirable. One source is body hair. Unfortunately, the yields and coverage potential of body hair are often unpredictable and often produce results that are not ideal. Therefore, it is potentially beneficial for us to identify means to improve the survival rate and coverage value of body hair. One potential way to improve coverage of body hair is through the application of Acell, an extracellular matrix.

I compared the yield from beard hair transplanted to a donor area strip scar pretreated with Acell to the yield of chest hair transplanted to a donor area strip scar that was not pretreated with Acell. The objectives of the study were to evaluate the yield of two different sources of hair and to see

Hair Transplant Results- Patient CF

webmaster@forhair.com (Forhair) — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:36:20 GMT

This patient is a great example of the truly transformative power of hair restoration surgery. He was so pleased with his outstanding results that he has even graciously allowed us to use his photos on our website, The after photos has been provided by the patient and were not taken in our clinic as the patient lives overseas.

As a Norwood Stage III, this patient did not have an advanced degree of hair loss but regretted undergoing a previous procedure, at another clinic, to lower his hairline. This patient contacted Dr. Cole in July of 2009 with the goal of restoring his natural frontal hairline and adding density to the front of his head. He also sought to have some scar grafting done to camouflage his linear scar from the previous procedure.

This patient underwent a shaven CIT procedure consisting of 2,654