I don’t like the idea of anyone removing grafts that have crusts or scabs on them. We have published a paper in a formal medical journal explaining that when a person pulls off a scab (crust) from a recipient area in less than 12 days, the risk of losing the graft is very high.
See the medical paper we wrote in a major journal below in the web reference that proves my point.
Here is the article: https://baldingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/mp-2006-graft-anchoring.pdf
This patient was concerned about the asymmetry of his hairline with the right side being slightly higher than the left. First thing I did was a HAIRCHECK test to determine if there was any evident balding and this test is very sensitive to this. The answer was clear that no balding is present at this time. He may be receding slightly on the right side, and if this is the case, he may develop balding in the future. An annual HAIRCHECK test would be indicated.
This is a very nice, effective and natural system of treating head lice reported in India. It includes a mixture with curry and olive oil and the use of a plastic bag for the whole night over the scalp.
This is what they are doing in India and it’s very efficient and does not cost much.
No, male pattern balding is genetic but it can skip many generations. You might not identify who you got it from if the person you inherited it from is not known to you. We often do not know our great grandparents. I recently saw my great, great grandfather’s pictures from the late 1800s and he had a full head of hair.
This patient had 2,900 grafts a few years ago and stopped in to show me what he looked like. The before and after are remarkable. His hair is brown, straight and of medium thickness. He has seen a remarkable change in his self-confidence and the man in the mirror looks good.
The placement of two or three hair grafts in the frontal hairline is something that should not be done because it makes the hairline detectable and somewhat pluggy. To make matters worse, this patient had the hair on the right side pointed in the wrong direction. What you need is a no-hairline hairline, something I discuss often. This can be corrected as it was in this patient (before on the left and after correction on the right) as shown in the photo repair. Best not to go through a repair and get it done right the first time.
I consulted with this 30 year-old man five years ago. At that time, he had frontal hair loss and did not want to take the drug Finasteride. The HAIRCHECK instrument showed no crown loss but today, five years later, he lost 50 percent of his hair in the crown since the test was last taken. Because his hair is so curly, you can’t see the crown loss very well in the photos, but had he taken the drug Finasteride, I doubt that he would have lost the crown hair had he taken the drug finasteride. The HAIRCHECK instrument is very sensitive in picking up early hair loss. He will go on the drug now to see if there is possible reversal of the crown loss which happens at times, but until a year passes, we will not know. He will get a hair transplant in the frontal area where the lines were drawn.
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This is a terrific story shown in photos in multiple surgeries. Congrats to the patient and the surgical team. It is important to note that the change was gradual, evidenced by the photos and I am sure that nobody saw the daily changes (like watching grass growing that you never see). People have always told me how surprised they were that nobody noticed, however, if anyone ever looked at an old photos, then they would know for sure.
I had my third epidural in my lumber spine and within a few weeks big chunks of hair started falling out, 1 patch of hair about size of a plum. Some days it’s fine then others clumps still fall out. I now have gone totally bald and it’s really affecting my depression and anxiety. I was wondering if anyone knows if it will grow back and how long as it’s near front so can’t hide it.
You need to see a doctor about your hair loss to find out if it is caused by medical conditions such as a disease entity or if it is purely genetic hair loss which can be accelerated by stress. Once you know, if the diagnosis is genetic hair loss and assuming that you are male, the drug Finasteride can maybe stop it. If it is from another disease, then you need a diagnosis. People who have conditions like you and who have stress from your primary problem (in your case your spinal problem) can cause the genes for hair loss to kick in and accelerate the hair loss that you may get in the years to come. Without pictures, it is impossible to know what you mean that you have gone totally bald so either send photos or see a doctor to make a diagnosis.
You clearly have significant folliculitis and need to see your doctor as soon as possible so that the infection does not kill off the grafts. Your doctor will take a culture, drain any pus pockets, put you on an antibiotic and judge the correctness of the antibiotic after the culture returns from the laboratory.
It is generally publicized that it is normal that a person can lose 100 hair a day on average. Other say that 100 hair a day is a lot and a normal loss is 50 hair/day or even less (20-30 hair/day) and that 100 hair/day is a sign of balding. Please can you advise if there were any trial to check how many hair on average a person really lose a day or if the 100 hair a day is based only on assumptions regarding number of hair in scalp and 10% in resting phase. Is this assumption of 100 hair/day credible and sure science. All the best and thank you for everything
Daily hair loss is part of the hair growth cycle. Hair essentially goes through two cycles. The Anagen Phase is the growth part of the cycle and it averages about three years. However, it often decreases with age and could be two or three years or even less the older you get. The second phase is called the Telogen Phase and it is the “rest” part of the cycle. The hair falls out while the hair root regenerates into a new hair that will regrow after about six months.
In a typical Caucasian who has 100,000 hairs on the head, assuming that the hair growth cycle lasts three years, divide number of hairs on the head by 1095 days and you come up with 91 hairs lost per day. In Asians with 80,000 hairs on their head, the number of hairs lost per day equals 80 percent of Caucasian numbers or 73 hairs per day, again assuming a 3 year growth cycle. A three year hair cycle, which may not be the case in older people, may be reduced, say two years instead of three years. Then the Caucasian hair loss per day would be closer to 150 hairs per day and the Asian hair loss per day would be about 120 hairs per day.
These bumps you are talking about appear like bits of elevated graft skin from the original transplant. These bumps occur when the surgeon leaves too much skin on the edge of the graft or does not flatten the graft to the skin surface at the time of the surgery.
The real question is what will be your final hair loss pattern and will you have enough hair to follow the loss to its normal completion? Men under 25 are not good candidates for hair transplants. I consider doing a hair transplant on a 21 year-old the equivalent of malpractice on the part of the doctor. I would recommend that you seek other alternatives while your final balding pattern is established. Keep yearly contact with a caring doctor who will build a Master Plan for you, measuring your hair loss and possibly placing you on a drug like Finasteride which is very effective at stopping and often reversing hair loss in young men of your age. Just imagine, doing a transplant now, then losing more hair and doing another transplant in a year, then losing more hair and doing another transplant again in a year so by the time you are 24, you could have had 3 transplants and may continue to bald. The cost in using up your hair bank and your money bank are both the types of discussions you and your doctor must have when building a Master Plan for your future hair loss
Yes you have early corner recession, what we call a Class 3 pattern of hair loss. You have options to treat this if you wish which include one year on the drug Finasteride and if this does not work, you can have a hair transplant to correct the corner recession.
