We do know that for a few patients, these permanent hairs may not be permanent after all. We don’t understand what you are reporting, but I would suggest that you see your surgeon and ask him/her to look at the donor area microscopically and see if those hairs are miniaturizing. If the donor areas have miniaturized hairs, this could explain what you are seeing.
From time to time, I read about something significant in the field of medicine. Many of our readers have parents and grandparents who confront dementia and Alzheimers, so information like this becomes significant from a family’s perspective.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01466-8?WT.mc_id=enews2018_02_07&utm_source=enews-aff-184&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=enews-2018-02-07
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/mcdonald’s-fries-chemical-may-cure-baldness-study-says/ar-BBIJqnv
Whatever you do, please don’t get your hands on the discarded oil from McDonald’s and put it on your scalp.
Traveling overseas can save you money on a hair transplant. I just surveyed many markets to find out what the cost per graft is in various countries from people who knew. Putting Turkey and India aside for a moment, the costs from reputable clinics including Thailand, Korea, much of South America, Mexico and Eastern Europe range from a low of $3 to a high of $5/graft. Two exceptions seem to be Turkey where pricing can be found as low as $0.50/graft and India where similar competitive pricing to Turkey seems available.
In Turkey, hair transplantation has country-wide offerings. There are about 510 clinics in Turkey, of which less than 40 clinics are reported to have physicians. Clinics are required to have doctors, but most seem to avoid this requirement. The government is blind to them because they bring in over $1 billion per year in revenue. The statistics on India are unfortunately not available, but I have spoken to patients who had a hair transplant in India for between $1-1.50/graft.
The issue or recourse is an important issue. If something goes wrong in most of these inexpensive countries, you have no recourse to complain or sue the doctor or clinic. We don’t know how many patients died in Turkey because there is no reporting mechanism and to report it is bad for their local economy. We do hear about complications from Turkey reported by doctors in Europe who see these patients after they develop gangrene of their wounds, or balding in their donor area.
I know of two deaths in the US over the past 8 years, and that is easy to find. Patients have recourse against the doctors in clinics in the US. As a result, there is an effort to do everything right by doctors in the US because they are at risk if they don’t do it right. Good doctors don’t need to be threatened to do it right.
I have been particularly interested in this subject and expect that I will learn more over time. I wonder if readers on this site would travel overseas to save significant amounts of money if the quality of the work was known to be good. Please write me if you are interested at wrassman@newhair.com, subject ‘Overseas travel for surgery‘
Reading the comments are about as interesting as the video. Most men don’t understand how a hair system works and this picture shows it well. Good hair systems are not inexpensive. Over the years, the cost for such hair replacements can run over $15,000. That is why so many people offer hair systems. The glue that attaches to the hair system you see here pulls out hair, so many people who use then become more bald over time from the traction of the glue that pulls out hair.
You need to go back and see your doctor, the one who prescribed these medications to you. Finasteride may interfere with a lower the androgen levels of the body and possibly impacting body fat metabolism. If that is happening to you, it is rare.
Crucial side effect of minox/fin that is rarely talked about?! from tressless
Hair loss is a progressive process. If your hair loss progresses after a hair transplant, you might want to see if you need more transplants to keep up with the new hair loss. However, the hair transplants themselves stay without medication or support of any kind since it is relatively maintenance free. Drugs like Finasteride will protect you from the hair loss that may normally occur.
You are starting to see shock loss, which is a loss of the native hair that often follows a hair transplant. This is prevented by the use of Finasteride. The small arrow points to the area which had hair before the hair transplant.
There are good solutions. Any thoughts of suicide suggest you should speak with a support network or seek professional help. Doctors can help you with hair problems so that the man in the mirror will be acceptable to you. If you are in the Los Angeles area, come see me. The consultation is free.
https://www.cosmetictown.com/news/trump_hair_loss_drug_side_effects
The use of a Dermaroller, which causes wounds, has its risks. It can introduce an infection because the scalp contains the potentially dangerous “staph” bacteria in a significant number. So, by making wounds with this instrument, it produces an unnecessary risk which can, on rare occasions, produce cellulitis. Cellulitis can become necrotizing, a very rare form of cellulitis that can become a life-threatening event.
There is no evidence that the use of a Dermaroller will provide any benefit to cause hair growth. I would caution all of the readers here to think more than twice about using this modality of treatment. There are some good treatments out there, see a doctor and get one that works.
I’m looking to buy a dermaroller. I need to know 2 things: number of needles and how much mm? from tressless
Thanks for the article. One important comment in the article is: “Also, as with all scientific research on hair regeneration, there are a lot of unknowns and there is no easy way to tell whether a particular research will be brought to fruition or not. The same goes for PTD-DBM hair regeneration.” What this is saying is: don’t count on any short-term answers. Because of articles with positive mouse testing and human skin on mouse studies that are successful, too many people think that the cure for balding is at hand. I have seen this same “story” told over the past 25 years, and still, no cure is available.
For most young men losing hair, the problem is now, not sometime in the future. They want solutions that work now, and these solutions are limited to Minoxidil and Finasteride or hair transplantation.
Korean scientists breakthrough in hair regeneration targeting CXXC5 protein and WNT Signaling Pathway from tressless
The skin in this area takes about 3-4 months to become normal, even if it looks normal. Therefore, you should not traumatize it by brushing roughly. Instead, gently use a brush to comb your hair in this area.
Chest hair has a short growth cycle, so after 6-8 months, it stops growing and goes into telogen (a rest cycle) which can last 6-8 months. This means that less than half of the hairs grow at any one time, and its length and thickness are far less than scalp hair. This is not the best source of hair for a hair transplant.
Has anyone here had chest hair to head transplant? from tressless
Have you looked at Scalp Micropigmentation? This is a great and relatively inexpensive solution to get the look of hairs on a closely shaved head. It is such a great illusion that I have had patients examined by 400 doctors who could not tell that the patient did not have real hair.
See pictures here: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/bold-shaved-look/