Dr. Ken Williams

Dr. Ken Williams founded Orange County Hair Restoration, where he serves as surgeon and leads its surgical hair restoration program. His credentials are listed as D.O., FISHRS and ABHRS: he holds a diplomate from the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery and is a fellow of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery. He has sat on the ABHRS board, served as its president in 2023, and works as an oral and written examiner in its process for certifying hair surgeons. He has practiced medicine and surgery in Orange County since 1986 and has treated hair loss patients for more than two decades. He has performed FUE since 2009 and focuses on Follicular Unit Excision. He was among the early cosmetic hair transplant surgeons to bring FUE into surgical practice and was the first dedicated FUE surgeon in the western United States. Alongside FUE, he offers FUT strip harvesting when a patient requests it, and a combined FUE-strip approach. Before any large hybrid case, he evaluates the patient in person. He co-wrote Hair Transplant 360: Follicular Unit Excision (FUE) and has contributed chapters to hair transplantation textbooks. He teaches FUE and hair surgery at workshops and post-graduate programs in the United States and abroad, mentors newer hair surgeons, and holds a Clinical Adjunct Professor appointment at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California. He has also taken part in clinical research into regenerative approaches to hair loss. He personally conducts every consultation and evaluation and carries out the key surgical steps himself, including diagnosis and planning. Consultations examine the cause of hair loss, donor-area characteristics, treatment history and future risk, and whether surgery or non-surgical care is appropriate. With the patient's approval, he designs the hairline, placing single-hair follicles in the front rows and larger units behind them.