title: Complications in hair restoration.
abstract: Hair restoration requires a high level of specialized skill on the part of both the surgeon and the assistant team. Recipient-site problems can manifest from either surgeon or assistant error. The surgeon can create an unnatural hairline due to lack of knowledge of natural hair-loss patterns or badly executed recipient sites. He must also be cognizant of how hairs naturally are angled on the scalp to re-create a pattern that appears natural when making recipient sites. Assistants can also greatly contribute to the success or failure of surgery in their task of graft dissection and graft placement.
authors.affiliation: Lam Institute for Hair Restoration, 6101 Chapel Hill Boulevard, Suite 101, Plano, TX 75093, USA. Electronic address: drlam@lamfacialplastics.com.
authors.forename: Samuel M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Lam
mesh_terms: D000505:Alopecia / Q000601:surgery*; D004954:Esthetics; D006197:Hair / Q000637:transplantation*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Cobblestoning; Compression; Cosmetic complications; Hair restoration; Hair transplant; Hairline; Pitting; Plugs