Press release from ISHRS: The above text is a press release sent to ISHRS member physicians to send out with individual doctors names attached. We’re posting it without the personalization, but we agree with what they’re saying about the lack of evidence-based data when it comes to persistent sexual side effects from Propecia.
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I put together a guide for patients, where I detailed the approach I would take if I selected any doctor for any reason. If you go for a consultation and end up meeting a salesman, then I would generally suggest that selling is the doctor’s priority. If you come to my open house events, you […]
I didn’t want to post your Facebook profile link so that I could keep some anonymity for you, but I was able to see a few photos. I don’t know if it’s lighting or a thin hair character (I can’t tell just based on the small photos I saw), but your hair looks thin to […]
Note: This post comes from one of our favorite readers (he has requested to remain anonymous), who has also contributed posts in the past about FDA issues. While not directly hair loss related, I wanted to post it to give critics of the FDA a little background on why the agency is important: It is […]
This is in response to a post from earlier this week about technicians performing most or all of FUE procedures with a NeoGraft tool: Thank you for your comments. To put it simply, no matter how minor of a surgery (suturing a cut on the skin, making a cut on the skin, or even just […]
NOTE: The following comes to us from a longtime reader that wishes to remain anonymous. He’s gifted us with some insightful posts in the past about the FDA, LLLT, and clinical trial regulations. His email is as follows: — The Journal of Sexual Medicine recently published an article that has been the source of several […]
Snippet from the article: Read the full story at IrishTimes.com — Stem cell researchers may have found baldness cure The title of the article might make for a good attention-grabbing headline, but it’s pretty misleading. This was an experiment on lab rats… and the hair lasted “as long as a year“. Granted, it is an […]
That’s quite the fancy website they have. The clinic, as shown in the photos, look so futuristic! Like an 80s sci-fi movie showing what a doctor’s office would look like in 20 years. I have no idea what’s in this Bioxsine serum or shampoo, besides what the maker calls Biocomplex B11… and that might as […]
A man came to see me last week with a problem following his hair transplant at another clinic over a year ago. The surgeon told him that 6600 grafts were transplanted (in three sessions) using the follicular unit extraction (FUE) technique, which he guaranteed has a yield of over 90%. The patient wanted to know […]
Most hair transplant clinics do charge by the graft. I think the surgeon who made the above statement clearly believes session charges are less misleading and have a greater value than graft charges. At one time, I entertained the idea of doing a session charge rather than a per graft charge, but I ran into […]
The FUE technique is often called a “scar-less” surgery, but that is misleading. Instead of the linear scar with conventional strip harvesting, FUE produces punctate scarring (pin-point scars about 1mm or less in size). If a doctor would state either in an advertisement or on his/her website that they perform scar-less surgery, any doctor that […]
This is an article I wrote that was published in the Hair Transplant Forum International (volume 19, number 5), the official publication of the ISHRS. I’ve become more and more outspoken about the problem with ethics among some hair transplant doctors, and have written a number of posts about it on this site. I was […]
Snippet from the article: Read the full text at Wall Street Journal. This problem shows the value of the FDA in protecting our interests. You would not want to go blind and without proper informed consent on drugs, you may not know what you are getting yourself into. Cheers to the FDA.
I do thank you for reading the site and I am more than happy to give you general information, but shouldn’t you be asking your post-surgical questions to the doctor who performed your surgery? Answering such specific and personal post-operative questions (simple as they may be) could be potentially misleading just by the fact that […]
I would guess that the answer is no on the hair transplant and yes on the Norwood Class 2. For starters, anyone in Hollywood with a transplant scar at the back of his head would likely never cut his hair that short (note the photo below on the left from late 2006). Even an FUE […]