Visit to Dr. James Vogel’s clinic in Baltimore, MD

As an experienced board certified plastic surgeon performing surgery in a beautiful state licensed facility, Dr. Vogel brings considerable surgical experience to every hair transplant surgery. He places great emphasis on state of the art surgical practices and patient safety.

While just less than half of Dr. Vogel’s plastic surgery practice is hair transplantation, his strong skills as a plastic surgeon make his donor closure in particular highly refined.

To optimize the quality of his donor closure Dr. Vogel does a “double layer closure” in which both internal and external sutures are used to close the donor area after the donor strip has been removed using a single blade. The internal suture below the surface of the skin/epidermis bring the edges of the donor area together so that the external surface suture/stitches have minimal tension or pull on them. This reduces the tension on the suture and skin and the potential for stretching and scarring.

He also performs the Trichophytic closure technique to minimize the visibility of the donor strip scar. This technique enables hairs to grow up and through the thin scar in the donor area, thus covering and disguising the thin narrow scar.

He has up to seven experienced medical technicians available to assist in performing hair transplantation. This enables his clinic to provide sessions up to 3,000 grafts. However, Dr. Vogel is reluctant to remove donor strips wider than 1.5 cm in order to minimize any chance of scarring or stretching in the donor area. Thus his sessions rarely exceed 2,500 grafts.

The complete story is on the Hair Restoration Research Forum

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