If you think long term, what will you look like in 4 or 8 years in terms of your balding pattern? IF you follow the logic here, 3500 grafts out of (on average) possibly 1/3rd of your donor area (or more) used up. If you develop a more advanced pattern of balding, you may run […]
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23M and am pretty happy with my hair right now and am currently on min(2x a day)+dut(3x week) and fin(4x week). But based on my family history it looks like I have a similar pattern as my pap and will be nw7 by 50/60 and probably an nw4 by 30-40. While I would be completely […]
Well to my dismay I am now a member of this community at 23. The idea of balding hadn’t even entered my mind until my mom mentioned my hairline receding a few weeks ago. Now i see it. Her dad was bald at like 30 so i guess it makes sense. Now i go around […]
The FUE Megasession seems to be more and more common lately and will lead to depleted donor area hair enough to produce balding. Newer doctors n the field seem to be offering larger FUE sessions once they think that they have mastered the FUE. It has become a marketing tool as many doctors from around […]
Since we invented the FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction’s first scientific paper written in 2002 by Rassman, et. al.), the use of this technique has become more prevalent at each and every year’s convention. What is impressive, is the inroads many physicians have made using this technology in their practice. In 2011, the Artas® Robot was […]
I met with one of my earliest transplant patients who had surgery in 1992 when I was just in practice for about 6 months. We performed 400 grafts on this patient and he reminded me of the troubles I had in using the glue to hold the grafts in place. At first I had to […]
Snippet from the article: Read the rest — Coronary-Stenting Abuse Cases Highlighted in Bloomberg Story The harsh reality of the Bloomberg story shows that doctors can be immoral when it comes to making money and patient decisions, even with life threatening diseases such as coronary artery disease. If a cardiologist abuses his power and influence […]
So far, we’ve looked at the history of FUE in part 1 and graft quality/survival in part 2… — FUE Today: The FUE market may reflect as much as 40% of the total hair transplant market today. I believe that 20% of the doctors offering FUE, are skilled in the process; however, a majority of […]
I received a question from a patient after an extensive meeting (over an hour) about the options of FUE vs strip (FUT) procedures, and he asked which of the newer FUE systems was best. He was particularly confused by the promotions of the ARTAS and Neograft systems. That prompted me to start writing. I’ve split […]
Their site says that it’s just follicular unit extraction (FUE) but the difference is, “the AHI variation of this method is that we use a specially designed implantation pen to place hair follicles…” Many clinics use FUE extraction tools and the implantation instrument they’re likely using is called the Choi Implanter. The Choi implanter has […]
This post isn’t responding to a submitted question, but an observation we’ve been seeing more and more lately… Donor area depletion is now becoming apparent in many patients who have had many FUEs done in the donor area. Just like strip surgeries, once hair is removed from the donor area, the donor area become thinner […]
It isn’t just about how competent a surgeon is at extracting grafts with a punch or a follicular unit extraction (FUE) tool, it is about a combination of factors, of which extraction may be the most difficult for the beginner. Most surgeons take a few years to learn the extraction process and once they got […]
We’re taking a week off from posting new content — our first break in almost 6 years — so we’re using this opportunity to repost some older articles that didn’t get the attention they deserved the first time around. (Originally published on October 3, 2008.) — I wanted to call your attention to yesterday’s announcement […]
Snippet from the article: Read the full text — A cure for baldness ‘could be available in 5 years’ This is quite interesting and I’d love to learn more about their achievements. I’m not sure that we’re ready to say a hair loss “cure” is coming in 5 years, though. I’ll keep my fingers crossed, […]
This is still a very early stage of trials and development. New ways of doing old things will arise. If the new technology works as planned, it will certainly not be like the old days of the bulky hair plugs. It should not produce scarring, as there is no surgery here. I’d prefer to not […]
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