The hair in every person’s scalp grows in tiny bundles called follicular units. Although this had been recognized for some time by histologists (doctors who study human tissue), the existence of follicular units was largely ignored by physicians performing hair restoration surgery. The follicular unit of the adult human scalp consists of 1-4 terminal (full […]
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Dr. Bill Reed, a hair transplant surgeon in San Diego, California, wrote the following piece in an email to a group of doctors. I asked him if he would allow me to share it with our readership, and he agreed.
Dr. Russell Knudsen (from Australia) wrote in informative article in this months “Hair Transplant Forum International”. Clearly, the ability to harvest the donor area with FUE will be more restrictive in individuals who have more extensive balding patterns (Class 5, 6 and 7 patterns of balding). The donor area around the sides and back of […]
This is a debate among many hair transplant doctors themselves. In my opinion, you would get the most number of grafts and hairs with the strip procedure over a lifetime to make an overall cosmetic difference. FUE (follicular unit extraction) grafts can sometimes have less hairs per graft than those harvested using the strip method. […]
Well, if an average Caucasian male has 200 hairs per square centimeter, and 50% of this density can be perceived as normal density, you can say 100 hairs per square centimeter can achieve the fullness. But it really all depends on your hair color, skin color, hair length, hair texture, hair style, etc. For example, […]
I am very curious which doctors you spoke to, because getting 5,000 to 12,000 grafts from one surgery would be considered impossible. Maybe you are confusing grafts with hairs. One graft can contain 1, 2, or 3 hairs. So 2500 grafts can contain 5000 hairs (for example). In general, an average Caucasian male with a […]
It has been known that a 1/2 dose of Propecia (finasteride 0.5mg) and even 1/10 dose (finasteride 0.1mg) showed efficacy on androgenic alopecia. I am aware of the study you’re referencing, and we’ve written in the past about how the 1/2 dose of Propecia is about 80% as effective as the full dose. So I […]
First, we generally use the term “grafts” which will contain 1, 2, 3, or 4 hairs. I have heard of some doctors doing 2500 to 3000 graft FUE procedures, but in my experience as the one who first published the FUE techniques in 2002 (which all doctors use), megasession FUE of that high a number […]
I recently met a prospective patient (Asian male) with a very low hair density who kept his hair very short. He wanted a follicular unit extraction (FUE) procedure and I strongly advised against it as in his particular case, the tiny white punctuate scars he would get from FUE might become detectable. His skin was […]
Here’s the post you’re referencing. The number of grafts that were transplanted on this patient was the maximum safe amount that could be harvested, reflecting the density of this man’s hair in the donor area. If the grafts were cut down to single hair grafts, the number would have been more, but the amount of […]
DHT is very important in the first trimester of pregnancy when the testicles and penis form. If DHT is not present (mother on finasteride or born with a defect where the fetus does not make DHT), then a hermaphrodite will probably develop. For more on hermaphrodites, see: Wikipedia – Hermaphrodite Born True Hermaphrodite HealthyPlace.com – […]
The answer to this question relates to a few things: Your donor density (average is 2 hairs/mm2) The laxity of your scalp (looser scalps should supply more donor hair) The balding pattern (Class 7 patients lose up to 70% of all of their hair so if this is a possible balding pattern then 1/3rd of […]
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