The "Ziering Whorl" Crown Classification
The Ziering Whorl is a hair classification system for the male crown area, accompanied by a surgical hair restoration technique that is revolutionising the way that bald spots on the back of the head and crown are being treated and restored to their natural state.
All Bald Spots Are Not The Same
In the past, hair grafts were transplanted into the bald spot without attention to detail and design. Surgeons transplanting with hairs in straight lines trying to cover the whole area from the outside in, would leave an unattractive "bull’s eye" in the middle of the crown.
As the crown is one of the first areas affected by hair loss, Dr. Ziering conducted a study of patients' hair patterns to understand this area better and developed an authentic hair pattern classification system known as the "Ziering Whorl". A whorl by definition means the hairs that rotate around the axis. This system provides a standard classification of "whorl" patterns.
To find the Ziering whorl and determine the classified pattern, our surgeons look at the back of a patient's head where the hair pattern rotates as it exits the scalp in a circular pattern. There are five patterns:
- S
- Z
- Double SZ
- Double S
- Diffuse
Where there too much hair loss to see a whorl pattern, our Ziering-trained surgeons can use the direction of the fringe hair along with the patient's ethnicity to determine the most natural looking whorl pattern to recreate.
Once the crown pattern is identified, the recipient sites are made in the bald spot following the direction of the patient's whorl pattern, working from the centre of the crown outward to prevent the common bulls eye.
This Whorl Pattern Surgical Technique gives significantly improved density in the crown area, by duplicating the hair’s tendency to grow from the scalp in a spiral pattern.
Dr. Ziering's Surgeons use of the Whorl Pattern Surgical Technique enables our patients to have confidence in the knowledge that their hair transplantation is as natural as it could be, by replicating their original hair pattern prior to hair loss. The results are the most natural looking hair transplants ever achieved.
The Ziering Crown techniques and identification process has been taught at international conferences across the world.
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Who is Dr. Craig Ziering?
Dr. Craig L. Ziering is one of the leading authorities in hair transplant surgery. With more than 20 years of experience as a preeminent hair transplant surgeon in Southern California, Dr. Ziering has provided help to countless men and women who suffered from hair loss.
