Minoxidil may help improve the rate of hair regrowth, however, transplanted hair does not need minoxidil for growth. It sounds to me like you may have some shock loss from the surgical procedure. More than likely, the shock hair loss will reverse (it usually does in women) and your hair would then grow back somewhere […]
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If you are a Norwood Class 2, then I find it a poor practice for a doctor to recommend transplants in someone at your age. You are correct to be concerned about hair loss and the things that might go wrong. Starting too early is just asking for trouble. Shock loss following a hair transplant […]
You need to wait out a full 7-8 months for even the hair around the donor area to completely recover from a transplant. If your scar has widened, then it can be assessed now, at the 5 month time frame. New donor area closures are now the talk of the town (in doctor’s communications) because […]
Hair loss from a single, small scalp reduction is unusual. As you know, scalp reductions have fallen on hard times and the surgery has been largely abandoned because sooner or later, the hair loss will continue and the scar may then become a problem. Scalp reductions stretch the scalp from the sides (it does not […]
I am glad that you find my blog helpful. Thank you for your kind words. It is not unusual for a person to show more hair loss on one side than the other. The reality is that the other side will catch up to the worse side eventually. Transplantation may be an option, assuming that […]
The donor hair will not be affected by Minoxidil so I do not recommend its use after a hair transplant. I generally put people on Propecia if they are young and in the balding process at almost any stage, as hair transplants can accelerate any hair loss process that is active. Mederma is an over-the-counter […]
Nice post on your blog. I’ve always wondered why some people’s HT don’t always take. Questions this brings up: – should one go to a dermatology clinic instead of a doc to get this done? – perhaps in the same way one can take fin to mitigate shockloss, would it be wise to take corticosteroid pills […]
I’m 31 and noticed hair loss at 30 which was horribly shocking for me, found tressless and got on fin without hesitation. I’ve had a crazy time on finasteride, pushed through more sides than I’m sure most would, developed gyno althought you can’t really tell to look at me and I have pretty low body fat […]
I buzzed my hair down out of depression for my rapid hair loss in 2020 but simultaneously started treating the condition with finasteride and minoxidil off of a friends recommendation when my buzzed hair came into conversation (oddly I was taking photos purely to keep track of how much I was loosing not to see […]
Wondering if you have strong hairloss genes in our family that would make you end up at a NW 5-6 at a rather young age and start taking fin were you still able to maintain? I have had many patients on finasteride since it came out and never had a hair transplant. These men found […]
It appears that you had too many FUE grafts for the donor density that you had. Usually the typical donor area of a Caucasian can tolerate 3600 FUE grafts. Look at the web-reference here: https://newhair.com/resources/#tab-id-4
It is difficult to tell if you have shock hair loss or over-harvesting of the donor area. Over-harvesting would be unlikely if your original donor density was normal as shown here (see: https://newhair.com/donor-area/). However, if your donor density was low, then 3000 grafts could have exceeded your maximum number of grafts that can be harvested. There is little you can […]
I had a surgery some years ago for gynecomastia and am now considering a hair transplant. The doctor tells me that if I take Finasteride, I can prevent shock hair loss. Will this cause my gynecomastia to return? If you had Gynecomastia (breast lumps or breast enlargement in men) from a non-Finasteride related cause, then taking […]
Click on photo for LARGER SIZE Click on photo for LARGER SIZE This patient is not going bald. He may be classified as a Norwood 2 or as having a mature hair line. He had the surgery because he did not like his raised corner hair line. He wanted a lower, relatively straight […]
This comment reflected the comments, one way or the other, of many men who visit me, but this particular day, this 26 year old actor who just finished his first role in a major movie came to me with the above comment. He looked like a typical hairy 26 year old male and I thought […]
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