A Case of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Scalp After Several Synthetic Hair Grafts has been reported. The FDA banned synthetic hair in the US in 1983, and that ban still exists. Unfortunately, some people go to places where Synthetic Hair is still available and have it transplanted into their scalps. In the short term, the results are incredible and instantaneous; however, infections often arise, and eventually, significant scalp scarring occurs. This is a warning to everyone who hears about Synthetic hair not to take on this treatment.
This patient is 4 months out of his hair transplant. The shock loss he experienced in the Donor area has not reversed yet, although it is likely it will be by the 6th – 7th month. Patience here is a virtue. The doctor has a good reputation, which is important in knowing that this is not over-harvesting. I have seen shock loss in both the donor area (rare) and a few times in the recipient area with previously done hair transplants. These have all reversed within the same 6th – 7th month time frame. Fortunately, these are rare occurrences. CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO ENLARGE
According to the viceo script (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHHaBNrSK5_/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ====), girls reveal their hair length for the first time when they marry. One picture (far left) shows a woman with hair length of 3 meters, as she stands on a box to show the length. This means that this woman’s anagen cycle (continuous growth cycle) must last 4.6 years, assuming the hair grows at a rate of 1/2 inch per month. I wrote about this place in China in December 2017 (https://baldingblog.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=22588&action=edit).
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This is a good effect from dutasteride 0.5mgs daily
Why did my hair fall out when I started finastride?
Some people taking finasteride may lose hair when starting the drug. That means that the drug is forcing some hairs to switch where they are in their hair cycle and the drug is working. Hairs that fall out, will then go into anagen, and commence a new hair cycle with DHT being mostly blocked.
https://ecerm.org/upload/pdf/cerm-2024-07675.pdf
Conclusion: Long-term use of dutasteride may lead to male infertility by persistently impairing semen volume and sperm motility.
If someone took finastride their whole life and stopped at 80 would they go right to where they would have been if they never were on fin at all?
This hypothetical question is not straight forward. First, assuming that this 80 year old man had unherited a Class 7 pattern of balding and that finasteride was 100% effective at stopping hair loss. With this assumption, I am sure that he would revert back to his inherited pattern within a few months.
These are two cases reversed using Tofacitinib along with other chemotherapy. The doctors reported that this often does not last and requires frequent re-treatments. See here for definition of the disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_totalis
Although blocking DHT almost completely, is, theouitically, able to prevent hair loss for a very long time, there is also a genetic component in which the number of hair cycles of hairs within the balding pattern distribution is also subject to limitations. For example, if a specific young man is genetically going to develop a Class 3 pattern of balding, then if it he gentically programmed for 7 hair cycles of three years each on the life of these hairs, and these hair then die at the end of the 7 hair cycles (all at the exact same time for the purpose of this model), dutasateride can only prolong the hair cycles, not the number of hair cycles. So a simple math formulae would predict 7 hair cycles of 3 years each developing a Class 3 pattern of balding would appear immediately at 21 years of age (3 times 7). IF the cycles were prolonged to 4 years because of the drug (theoritically you start dutasteride when you are born for this calculation to work), then 7 cycles multipled by 4 years each, get you to an age of 28 before you develop that Class 3 pattern, all at once for this model. One morning you wake up, and in the shower your hair falls out and you develop an instant Class 3 pattern because your vulnerable hairs are at their life. those hairs within the Class 3 pattern. Of course, the hair cycle length varies by age and sex thoughout the formative years and within the pattern of balding, the hairs vary with their life expectancy. So simple calculations like those above make no sense, but it does show the complexity of making sense out of predicing hair loss with drugs like finasteride and/or dutasteride.
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I would like to know how to properly do this. Because I don’t know how lightly I should go or how long I should focus on/stab one area…I always seen to over do it slighly and make my scalp red have to stop after 2 or 3 days because of the sensitivity & flaking.
So how exactly do you guys that do it daily do it?
The point of microneeding is to create a wound adjacent to stem cells located between 0.75-2mm below the scalp’s surface. This produces a healing cascade, starting with bleeding, infusion of platelets, macrophages, and cytokines into the wound, and then stem cell activation. This stem cell activation produces a variety of stem cells. One group, in particular, controls hair cycling, and these stem cells are believed to cause hair growth cycling. That is why the depth of the needles and the repeated injury with a Dr. Pen device produce a controlled injury. I tell everyone to hold the device against the scalp for 10 seconds in each area. If there is too much pain, purchase a numbing medication from your local drug store and then apply it 30 minutes before the Dr. Pen is used. As I described above, Derma stamping and Dermarollers don’t produce a controlled wound. Adding minoxidil is beneficial, but the controlled wound gets you the results. Look at the posts on badlingblog.com earlier this week, and throughout Baldingblog.com for more examples of miconeedling results.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tressless/comments/1jl5w70/oculotoxicity_and_finasteride/
This is the first time I heard of any occullar problems from finasteride. I consistently report publications as I find them, and often, Reddit users perform considerable research on such issues, and they expand my daily studies (https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2690754).
Oculotoxicity and finasteride.
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This is a comprehensive article written by Dr. Kavish Chouhan, a brilliant surgeon in Delhi, India whose intellectual curiosity I have always admired. The article reviews the many approaches to getting GREAT GRAFTS out with various FUE technologies.
21-year-old men get great responses from minoxidil and finasteride. I am not surprised but I do congratulate you for selecting the correct routine for you.
I have seen this too often, that doctors do not give proper instructions for keeping the recepient area crust free. This worked at getting the crusts off and clearly pulled hair out. If the hairs he pulled out were done prior to day 9, he might have lost hair grafts forever. Shame on the doctor who did not foresee this in advance with proper instructions.
Obviously, it is an undetectable transplant because everything he got transplanted failed to grow. This is how he look when he came in for the surgery. It wasn’t a bargain!
