The University of Pennsylvania has been on the cutting edge of both (1) stem cell development for hair growth and (2) fat cell use in the treatment of acute scars producing reprogramming of cells in a wound. This is going to become a huge field with almost incalculable value. We have known for a long time that fat has stem cells has significant value when used in the treatment of various skin and scar problems. For example, the yellow fat next to the hair follicles seen in a hair transplant, has strong supportive characteristics that are important anatomical elements contributing to a successful hair transplant.

Various presentations on the use of such fat cells have been presented at medical meetings and in various medical publications. One in particular stands out was the use of hair grafts for the treatment of huge ulcers on the leg resulting from vascular disease. When these ulcers are transplanted with hair grafts that contain significant amounts of fat around them, these non-healing ulcers fully heal. As my background included the treatment of such non-healing ulcers, I was amazed to see the value of such grafts in such dire circumstances.

Read here: https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/doctors-may-have-figured-out-a-way-to-heal-scar-tissue

Shock loss is induced by the anesthetic., not the surgery. The crown hair must have been miniaturized and the hair loss was induced by the surgical process. The only way to prevent this is to take finasteride

Be honest and that shows you care. Men often deny early balding and by the time to stop denying it, the are past the point when they might have prevented or reversed it with medications. This goes to extremes and the denial can occur over a generation to the point where men can’t even see what happened to them such as those with the awful comb-overs whose wives and family never say a word. I know your question is really about early balding, but by being open and frank, you can show how much you really care and take a load off of his back.

This is a momentary phenomenon and any hormones that are released in the male do not last long enough the impact the hair growth cycle. The following is interesting reading: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16436468

For years, mainly because of the 4% risk of sexual side effects from finasteride. man have asked for a topical form of finasteride. Now we are seeing many more examples of topical finasteride (liposomal topical finasteride formulation) which suggests that this works. Most doctors can order this through compounding pharmacies; however, the result of the effectiveness of this is not clearly define in the medical literature as of this time. I am sure we will hear more about it soon

This is a highly unusual complication of a hair transplant which I have seen posted on the web. I have seen necrosis in the mid-scalp (between the ears) when the patient was a smoker or when the surgeon made wounds that were too large and possibly too close together in combination. I have reported necrosis from internet posts here previously on baldingblog.com. I am perplexed about the cause of this problem and considering that we have performed well over 15,000 surgeries in the past 16 years and never seen this type of complication in the frontal portion of the scalp, I am wondering why more and more such problems are arising and being exhibited on the internet by worried patients. Surgical techniques certainly may have something to do with these problems and smoking may also be a contributing factor. I have written to this person and ask for more details.

I would be worth searching ‘necrosis’ in the search bar in the right upper hand corner of the screen to see more cases and some of my analysis in the past.

I had a Hair Transplant strip surgery one year ago and now continue to have pain in one area of the incision. 

You report that you have pain in the donor area 1 year after strip Hair transplant surgery. Your doctor should examine you for a neuroma associated with one or more of the nerves in the area where the excision occurred. Neoromas are common if the nerve was damaged at the time of the surgery. Generally there is a single spot along the incision that if you tap it with a finger, it will bring on the pain.