Hi,
I’ve noticed that my thinning area’s scalp is also very thin and stretched very tightly onto the skull, unlike the area where I have no thinning which has a thicker scalp with more cushion and flexiblity. What causes this? Is it the lack of bloodflow to the area? This only occurs on the thinning areas…
You are very observant. The loss of hair produces the loss of infrastructure, which is all of the associated parts of the hair organ including blood vessels, dermal fat, collagen, nerves, and muscles associated with the hair that take space and causes that cushion you are noticing.
We use animal hair for wigs all of the time. Let’s say hypothetically that it is possible to use animal hair for transplants — which animal did you have in mind? If you picked the animal of your choice, what do you think PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) would say? Hair transplant isn’t life or death, like a liver or heart. If PETA supports your cause (or you don’t care about what they think anyway), what doctor will you go to? A veterinarian? If a doctor is willing to do the surgery, what do you think your friends will say? It gives a whole new meaning to “sexy beast” …
Omega 3-6-9 fish oil pills, multi-vitamins, and vitamin B12 are all ok and may help you maintain your general health and perhaps your hair health as well. I do not know of a good scientific paper discussing these benefits on hair loss or faster hair growth, though.
I have one of those panels right above my bathroom mirror with lightbulbs, and whenever I look at my hair in the mirror, the front looks like it’s thinning as I can see scalp. But my hairline is the same as it’s been since I was 15 (10 years ago) — no recession whatsoever that I can tell. And my hair does not seem to look like it’s thinning in the temples but rather in the general frontal area from temple across the middle and to the other temple. Furthermore, when I come out of the shower I comb my hair back, and then I take a handheld mirror, and bend over so I can see the top of my head in the mirror, the front of my hair looks like it’s thinner than the middle or back from the top view. From this description only, what would you make of this?
A while ago, one of my patients was mugged in East Los Angeles (not a good part of town). As he was getting roughed up and his wallet taken, he was held by his hair (which was about a year out of his surgical procedure of 3000 grafts) and they broke his nose. After they got his money, they kicked him, pulled out his new 5 inch long hair, and he fell to the cement. The police and ambulance came and when they wanted to take him to the emergency room, he refused to go to the hospital and had the ambulance deliver him to my office, all bloody. Crying about his hair and the ordeal he’d just been through, he told me the story. I reassured him that the hair will grow back and strongly urged him to have his face sewed up and his broken nose attended to.
I have reviewed the website you mentioned and I have no way to prove or disprove the claims made by the company. The claims of increasing HGH as the agent for the change is without proof and because it is a natural ingredient, the FDA does not get involved in the regulation of such products. However, with claims of value and medical benefits, the line may have been crossed with FDA labeling requirements, which does control all products with medical claims. I am sorry, but I don’t have the answer to this and unfortunately, I don’t think this is a question that can be answered.
The follicular unit extraction (FUE) procedure is in a way a mini-punch graft involving just one follicular unit. Instead of using 6mm punches, we use 0.9mm punches. 
A mother has relived her five-hour ordeal with a sleazy hair doctor who was found guilty this week of massaging women’s breasts – 10 years after her attack.