Sometimes transplanted hairs grow out kinky with a different texture. This happens when the grafts were not handled well by skilled technicians or medical group. It can happen with bad recipient sites (too big, too small, too tight, too shallow, etc) made by the doctor. It can also happen to certain individuals despite highly skilled […]
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No, change in hair character is not common, but it has been reported to me in about an estimated 1-2% of patients. It rarely gets very kinky, most of the time it just becomes more wavy. One patient that I do remember did get a kinky change to his hair after both transplants sessions. He […]
Caucasian and Asian follicular units are straight; however, in African individuals with coarse, kinky hair, the curl seen above the skin is also present below the skin. That is the only difference between African hair and the hair of other races. Getting these out with FUE requires a lot of experience, and placing them into […]
Please look carefully at this picture. You can see that the donor density is clearly less dense than in the upper left corner, an area that was not harvested. People always ask me what is my total donor supply; well, this picture shows that with enough harvesting, the donor area becomes so thin that one […]
I’m in my mid 20s and I got a hair transplant done 6 weeks ago. I have started to notice a lot more white hair on my head after the transplant. Significantly more than before. Am I just aging? Or have the hairs temporarily turned white as a result of the physical trauma of the surgery? We […]
Why are women wigs way more accepted by society and look way better and real than men wigs ?? It’s also much more expensive for a guy to wear a wig rather than a girl . And 90% of men systems look fake Wigs are very common in African American women because if they have […]
Beard hair is a good donor source for hair transplants but the character of the hair is kinky in most men, so a hair transplant using beard hair will produce a kinky appearance in the recipient area and as such, should not be used for the leading edge of the hairline. Neck hair on the […]
I live in the eastern PA area. I want to get this repaired and I figure an FUE session would be worth trying. I’ve tried SMP and it didn’t work well. Is there success with FUE into scar tissue? Are there any experiences both positive and negative that can be shared? I’ve visited a Long […]
How much hair does a non-bald person have on top of their head. Not the back or the sides, just the top. I know it depends on thickness. But what is the minimum amount of hair needed on top so as to not appear to have thinning hair? I have told the story of a […]
6 months post transplant. Hair has been growing in for 2 months now. Got transplanted hair put on both temples and lowered hairline slightly. Left side temples and lowered hairline hair is coming in as expected. However, on the right side, the hair is growing in curly and is off-putting. I had a follow up with […]
Well, this is not an uncommon question for many people who wake up one day and look in the mirror and see what they never noticed before. Usually, it is never this bad, of course (please excuse the patient but I got him up too early to do up his hair). Hair loss in Monkeys […]
The first photo set is a woman who had her hairline lowered the day before these pictures was taken. Please note that the washing was so complete and the recipient sites so samll, that the recipient sites could barely be seen so I labeled the frontal view where a faint outline of the recipient sites show […]
The following is a quote taken from the 23andme website. This is a most interesting site as it allows you to look at some of your similar genetics to other people in the general population that also participated in this set of genetic tests. I took this test about two months ago (a swab from my […]
African American’s fall into two categories of hair types, somewhat related to where their ancestors came from. Those from East African (Ethiopia for example) have curly hair but not kinky hair while many from the Western part of African have a kinky hair. Kinky hair has the ‘kink’ extending below the skin so that unlike […]
It does seem LeBron James had a hair transplant surgery looking at the photos. I cannot say why he would choose a Strip surgery over the FUE surgery. FUE surgery certainly would have spared him of the scar. I do know that curly African American hair is also very difficult for most doctors to perform […]