Hallo to all
I am back from my first hair transplant, 1465 Grafts
FUE, surgeon is dr. CHRISTIAN BISANGA (I started to work with him as
patient coordinator from november 2006, after many meeting with him)
He works in Bruxelles (Belgium)

25 january: the day much wished comes. I go in clinic at 7.45 am, dr. Bisanga and his whole staff is waiting for me.
Ritual
photo and design pre operation: dr. Bisanga designs to me a hairline a
little bit under my expectations. I ask if it is possible to lower a
little more the temples, so dr. Bisanga re-design a new hairline a lot
over my expectations: most natural, with the closing of the angles of
temples, closed to the just point, reconstructing therefore also a
little in the parietal. I am really happy of my design. I do not see
the hour to begin.

I enter in the room op and and the staff give
me an oral antibiotic and a Valium, to leave to melt under the tongue,
in order to make me relax and to make drowsy.

The operation begins, the staff (standard for FUE) is compos
ed by
- dr. Christian Bisanga
-
Leith Leonard, a very very good technician, to the point that sometimes
he makes small extractions, he was also in training from dr. the Cole
in Atlanta, he is the brother of Larry Leonard, that is the surgeon of
the GHI clinic in Jacksonville. It works with dr. the Bisanga from
nearly 5 years
- Donetta Dumas (in art DEE ), the other assistant,
she comes from the dr Cole's clinic also, much preparated and very
skillful in placement grafts, she works with dr. Bisanga from more than
6 years.


Leith makes me the first anesthesia, a little
annoying, but nothing of traumatic. Also because you come informed
before. The anesthesia is of the duration of around 30 seconds/1 minute
in total, and it is practiced in more zones, to put to sleep the donor
area. They made me two anesthesias, one on the left side (above the
ear) and another one on the nape (in proximity of the neck). I remind
me that I laughed while I was thinking about the fact that this was the
most painful phase of the whole operation
After anesthesia, dr.
Bisanga begins to practise the extractions of the UF, starting from the
side of the left parietal, for then to go toward the nape to the
center. The zone of the right parietal has been virgin. In this phase I
don't absolutely feel anything, both for the anesthesia, both because I
sleep under the big hands of the dr.Bisanga
Il dr. Bisanga seems a robot, he never gets tired, it is impressive
He uses punch 0,75 mm and sometimes 0,8 mm - > no white dots scarrin
The whole harvesting is effected by the dr. Bisanga

They
made me the last anesthesia under the forehead, behind the receiving
area, and they begin the incisions (the slits), effected always from
dr. Bisanga; in the meantime the assistants work to the microscopes.
Then
the placement grafts begins: dr. Bisanga starts, then he leaves the
assignment to the two technicians: Dee works on my left temple and
Leith on my right temple.

It's 17.30, my operation is Ended ....
The time flies, I feel very well (a little upset for the anaesthetic
effect but all is ok), no pain, no bother, nothing, zero... rather...

In
total I received 1465 graftses, with a density of 82 uf/cm2 (rigorously
single uf) on the first line, of 65 uf/cm2 (multiple uf) on the second
line, and of 60 uf/cm2 on the third line. Around 800 grafts are single,
the remainders are multiple.

At the end of operation, they give me all the necessary for the post operation:
- shampoo betadine, to begin to use 2 days after the operation
- salty solution, to begin to sprinkle on the recipient the morning after the operation, every 1 / 2 hours
-
cream with hydrocortison 1%, and also aloe vera, to apply on the donor
the evening of the following day to the operation, twice a day
- 3 antibiotics, one to be taken later, in the same evening and the others two the day after (morning and evening)
- 4 pain-killers: never used and never necessary for me.

It
doesn't seem me true, the intervention has been a walk, the FUE is
Magic, I have new temples and a new hairline and I don't have scar, it
is not understood from where hair has been withdrawn. I am very well
and I don't feel pain, no problem, so much that the same evening I
sleeps quietly in my bed (at 45%, slightly raised with the back to
avoid swellings).

Now I must only wait for first results, and I cannot wait for seeing them!

PRE OPERATION:

THE DESIGN:

IMMEDIATELY POST OPERATION

2 DAYS AFTER

3 DAYS AFTER

4 DAYS AFTER

5 DAYS AFTER

New pics carried out during the procedure

Detailed forum discussion for these pics can be found at:
http://www.hairsite4.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=12&topic_id=51420&mode=full&page=7