Hair Transplants

At Porcaro Hair Restoration, your procedure will be performed safeley and comfortably at Dr. Porcaro's state of the art AAAHC accredited Office Based Surgery Facility.

Local anesthesia, together with oral or intravenous sedation (both are optional) make the procedure very well tolerated. Patients describe having Hair Restoration as being easier than a visit to their dentist and rarely is serious pain involved.

SEE A PATIENT UNDERGOING A HAIR TRANSPLANT

(Patient relaxing while assistants place grafts)

Patients are awake during the procedure and can spend their time listening to music, watching DVD'S, reading or talking with John Porcaro, MD and his staff. Patients are treated to lunch, which they can enjoy with a spouse or partner during the lunch break.

(Patient watching TV during procedure)

After application of a local anesthetic, Dr. Porcaro will remove your donor strip and suture your incision by the Trichophytic closure method, making it unnoticeable on the day of the procedure.

There is no thinning or baldness in your donor area and the hair above the incision will easily cover the incision on the day of your procedure. The incision will quickly heal with little or no scar and will always be hidden by hair that covers it.

John Porcaro, MD will instruct his surgical team on precisely how to divide up the strip, which typically contain follicles with 1-4 hairs. Microscopes are routinely used to dissect each follicle from the strip.

Dr. Porcaro will personally create all your micro incisions in the area to be transplanted which dictates how your new hairs grow. This is by far the most critical phase of the procedure, requiring experience, artistry and skill and is made in such a way so as to recreate your original hair pattern.

Depending on the circumstances, John Porcaro, MD will place grafts laterally (coronally), sagitally, densely pack grafts or perform mega sessions. (John Porcaro, MD will review these terms and others at the time of your consultation.)

Following this, Dr. Porcaro will supervise the actual placement of the grafts, which is performed by his very experienced hair technicians under optical magnification. It is important to note that the grafts can only be placed into the recipient sites one way, similar to placing a square peg in a square hole.

John Porcaro, MD will inspect every graft and your donor incision at the end of the procedure and will review the printed post op instructions with you. Dr Porcaro typically calls each patient the evening of surgery.

Dr. Porcaro encourages patients to call him and provides his personal phone number for any questions they may have during their recovery.

John Porcaro, MD cautions patients not to be swayed by the internet hype concerning Follicular extraction procedures.

With rare exception such as very small transplant procedures-eyebrows, eyelashes, mustache, beard, small corrective procedures, or when donor supply is insufficient, follicular unit extraction is more time consuming, more expensive, result in more damage to follicles and is not nearly as efficient as the strip method.