It is good that you started using Propecia for your thinning crown hair. Although you don’t think you had improvement with medications, I think it is best for you to continue the Propecia, for you never know how your crown would look if you were not taking the medication. Propecia should be the first line […]
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The medications of topical minoxidil or systemic Propecia (finasteride 1mg) should not cause more hair to appear on your already hairy body. If you have a full Norwood Class 6 or 7 balding pattern, then chances are that these medications may not help. The marginal edges are where such patterns may see benefit, but you […]
Beard transplants (from the scalp to the beard area) should have some similarity of the hair character for these transplants to look normal. If your beard is coarse and the scalp hair is fine, then the difference may be too great for a normal look. Costs for hair transplants generally are priced by the graft. […]
It would be malpractice for a surgeon to do beard to scalp hair transplants in a 25 year old. If you are committed, please do the standard thing and do not invent your own surgery. The price you will pay will have nothing to do with money.
This condition is called trichotillomania, which is an impulse disorder characterized by the urge of pulling out hair from scalp, eyelashes, eyebrows, beard, nose, pubic area, or any other area in the body. It is most often related to obsessive-compulsive disorders. Surgical treatments for hair restoration are usually not indicated, and the best treatment would […]
I read a great deal, so here are my answers based upon my understanding. Hair moved will look like the hair did at the source (donor site), but it may grow longer based upon recipient sites influences. Body hair on the scalp will continue to look like body hair on the scalp. The length of […]
Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) produces very small scars in the donor area, usually less than 1mm (there are 25mm to an inch). The only way most people could see these scars is a complete shave of the head (not a short hair cut, which probably would not show any of these scars). In the recipient […]
Large sessions, really large ones, were defined by me in 1993-4 timeframe when I reported first breaking 2000 grafts/session, then 3000, and finally in early 1994 I reported my first of many 4000+ graft sessions. These are not typical. First, the surgical team must be trained in doing large sessions with fast, efficient cutting and […]
Good nutrition is important for healthy hair, just as it is for a healthy body. Nutrition should not be a cause of hair loss, unless there is malnutrition present. Transplanted hair, like hair from the top, sides or back of your head, will do what your genetics dictate. Hair on the sides and back should […]
Many of my younger readers of this blog are seeing changes in their hairlines and are worrying about becoming bald. The problem is made worse when there is balding in their family line. I have placed three diagrams taken from the Norwood Classification for hair loss. By conventional wisdom, the Class 1 pattern is proposed […]
You can try minoxidil, but be careful not to overdose yourself, as it is a hypotensive agent and it will get absorbed into the body through the skin. Hair transplants work well for transplanting hair from the head to the chest — and it is medication free. With hair transplants on the chest, the hair […]
What you see is often an illusion that is created by the actor (or even their stylists) through hair pieces, make up, or even good hair transplants. Taking what I had said about John Travolta or Matthew McConaughey in the past, it is evident that these men would not be the sex idols that they […]
Since this site’s first blog post on Matthew McConaughey, we seem to be taken up with all of the focus on his hairline. I am not into sensationalism, even though I have elected to share what has been sent to me. I do respect a person’s need for privacy, yet there seems to be no […]
There are genetic conditions that make some people prone to scar stretching. Diseases like Marfan syndrome and the worst of them all, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, produce wound healing problems. “Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a group of rare genetic disorders caused by a defect in collagen synthesis. Depending on the individual mutation, the severity of the disease can […]
I don’t think I’ve ever stated that it was bad to have a hair transplant if you are not taking Propecia. If you can find a BaldingBlog entry where I did please let me know. I often advise patients to take Propecia to prevent possible shock hair loss. However this is after a personal face-to-face […]
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