The original post you’re referring to is here. It is best to visit local doctors who are known in this field and ask them directly. This site is for general information only. Ask Dr. Woods to meet a few of his patients and then look at the donor scars yourself. I have always had patients […]
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I would need more information about you. What hair have you lost? Are you on Propecia? What did your hair transplant surgeon say? Look carefully at the pictures that he took and be sure that the transplants failed. If they failed, did you surgeon agree with you? Consider getting a second opinion if your doctor […]
It may be possible, but for all practicality, not probable. Even with the best case scenario, where would you get the donor hair? Could this give a new meaning to selling your hair for money? Generally hair transplantation from one person to another carries the same risk as organ (liver, heart, kidney) transplants. There is […]
Here’s a story about a dermatologist who had a hair transplant when he was 25 years old, in 1975. Forgive the blurriness of the photo below. What is particularly important about this first picture is the amount of hair that he actually had when the transplant process was started. He was clearly thinning his hair […]
Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) has been in vogue with hair transplantation surgeons in recent years. It is an elegant approach where one follicular unit is taken from a patient’s donor area, one at a time. There are no scalpels or the traditional linear scar. An FUE procedure requires a special 0.7 to 1 mm diameter […]
I suspect that you may be seeing a very subtle type of swelling. This is a condition more often seen in the legs or arms, called lymphedema. If it is very subtle and does not produce symptoms, leave it alone. If it is in the legs, then compression stockings may help. For leg swelling, you […]
Pseudopelade is a peculiar form of scarring alopecia resembling alopecia areata. It is unclear if it is immunologic (your body thinks your hair is foreign and kills it) or genetic in nature. Unfortunately the condition is not amendable to hair transplantation, because you would run the risk of more hair loss and failure of the […]
These are the questions you should be asking your doctor. At a month, I am certain that the grafts are secure and that what you are seeing is the failure to achieve good hygene. Washing your hair is critical and these flakes that you see are now just shedding skin. You need to see or […]
Most people in the know believe that Drs Walter Unger and Jerry Cooley have stood at the doorstep for the emerging arena of hair regeneration. They have both spoken at various medical meetings on the subjects of hair regeneration and hair cloning and they have been kind enough to comment on the history and status […]
A doctor should look at your donor area with a hair densitometer to look for miniaturization. The greater the miniaturization, the worse the donor hair will be for hair transplants. The important thing to understand is that women are generally not good candidates for hair transplantation, because the ‘donor hair’ is not healthy. If there […]
Your question is troubling me. Transplanted hairs are permanant and very successful so if yours failed, something is wrong. It is also troubling that you only had 400 hair grafts when you state you are a Norwood Class 5. That would hardly have an impact on your appearance. If your hair transplant was a failure, […]
It is normal to be worried about hair loss. We live in a ‘hair society’ and the history of every civilization has focused upon linking hair and health and virility. We are a product of those prejudices and each culture has its own twist on the balding process. Male pattern baldness (MPB) has a major […]
Funny you asked about Matthew McConaughey. I saw his new movie this weekend, Failure to Launch. I must thank you for the compliment, but I cannot take the credit for his hairline. I do not personally know Mr. McConaughey, nor do I know if he had a hair transplant, and nor do I know if […]
At the young age of 20, you are experiencing accelerated hair loss. Your final pattern may be reflected in your family, so probe the entire history of hair loss amongst the men from both your mother’s and father’s sides. Having a hair transplant at this early age may lead to further hair loss, called shock […]
Hair mapping means that a physician is using a densitometer or video magnifying camera to look for miniaturized hairs at multiple sites on your head. The percentage of miniaturized hairs and the thickness change in those miniaturized hairs will determine: if a balding process is going on the pattern of the balding process over time […]
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