How do I remove scabs from a Hair Transplant?

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /
Use a surgical sponge without soap, then dip it into a shampoo solution and make a lot of suds. With the sponge full of soapy shampoo, roll if back to forward on the grafts. Press on the sponge. Little squirts will come from the holes in the sponge and take off all scabs. Repeat it until it is clean. If any scabs remain, then get a Q-tip, dip it into the shampoo water and roll in over residual crusts over and over again until takes off the last of the scabs. Repeat this daily to keep the scabs off. You will look clean of scabs if you follow this routine. Read my article on graft anchoring here: https://newhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mp-2006-graft-anchoring.pdf

This is what you should look like:

The Science of Hair Loss by webMD

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/science-hair?ecd=wnl_day_100521&ctr=wnl-day-100521_lead_title&mb=DIjjZuHpe4pLfebJPo6kGpOenxSl%2FWb1cYT6skpYnrs%3D

https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/hair-loss-diagnosis-women?ecd=wnl_day_100521&ctr=wnl-day-100521_support_link_1&mb=DIjjZuHpe4pLfebJPo6kGpOenxSl%2FWb1cYT6skpYnrs%3D

Girlfriend might leave me as my hair goes

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

 i’m 19 and she is 18 and we’re both going to be sophomore in college next year and she is going to dorm next year and im worried that we won’t be together because i’ll become too far gone and she will find someone with a really nice head of hair and obviously a personality and whatever. i happen to think i have an amazing personality but this hairloss would make me look, ugh idk like very unpresentable

Sometimes you need to challenge a relationship to find out its value. If your girlfriend would leave you simply because of hair loss, then she is shallow. You have value well beyond your appearance and your hairline. Think about that and if she goes away, she is not worth keeping

Hypertrichosis treated with laser

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

I am contemplating laser hair removal, but i think that traditional laser doesn’t destroy the entire follicle, so it might regrow if i keep taking the treatment. You don’t have patient with this concern of hypertrichosis with low dose OM?

I have only started it recently on patients so I know more about what I read than my personal experience. Laser hair removal only removes anagen hair and for most body hair, half of these hairs are in telogen at any one time so at most you get half of the hair follicles with the laser

Hair thickened over 1 year

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

A little over a year of being on 1mg finasteride pills and using 5% minoxidil once daily. Not much hairline progress since my last update, but my hair has thickened significantly. Extremely happy with these results.

It has thickened because you took finasteride and minoxidil and probably reversed the miniaturization that might have progressed to hair loss. Nice!

Wierd SMP

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

When I see an SMP like this, I must assume that this man wanted this look and found someone to do it for him because I can’t imagine any professional would do this voluntarily. I wouldn’t do it if I were asked, not for any money!

Plucking out hair

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

Hi I’m a 24 year old female and one night I got stressed and started plucking hairs at my hairline. This is the first and only time I’ve ever done this. It happened January 24. It’s been almost 2 months now and absolutely no regrowth has even started. I don’t even see little black dots appearing Will they ever grow back? When? They was the only time I’ve ever plucked those hairs out. I’m so nervous

A single plucking will not result in permanent hair loss. I had a patient who was mugged and held by his hair. At the end of the beating they pulls out his entire frontal hairline and he was devastated. It all grew back within 6 months. You hair will likely grow within 6 months of the plucking

19 months on finasteride

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

The hair appears thicker on the right after the 19 months on finasteride but it is hard to be sure from the photos alone.  It would be better to have done a HAIRCHECK test  before and after the 19 month timeline. This gives an objective measurement of the hair bulk increase, if any, see here: https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/

Shock loss 5 months ago

/by William Rassman, M.D./0 /

 i’ve seen you comment in several hair loss posts so i wanted to reach out. next week i will be 5months post FUE and i’ve noticed shock loss in the front near my hair line for the past several months. at what point could i expect to see the hair start to regrow? it currently looks worse than it did before i had the operation in October. thank you for your time.

Shock loss is the loss of miniaturized hairs associated with a hair transplant. These usually don’t comeback. It can be prevented 95% of the time by taking finasteride. Your transplanted hair should be growing by now and in a couple of months you should have the length to style it.