How long were you on Propecia prior to the surgery? Have you considered that you have continued to lose your native (non-transplanted) hair and now are left with just the transplanted hair? It would sort of be a one-to-one trade off. Unfortunately, you will continue to lose more of your native hair even with Propecia. […]
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Don’t panic! Results from a hair transplant will usually be seen from 3 months all the way up to 7 months on average. The speed at which it grows has nothing to do with success of the surgery. The waiting is the hardest part… but you’re going to have to find the patience. If at […]
I do not know what is going on in your case, so I could just guess. Maybe you have increasing native (non-transplanted) hair loss. Maybe you have other medical problems. Maybe your hair transplant was not a success. Maybe you have diffuse unpatterned alopecia (DUPA), which would produce failures to hair transplant surgery. Maybe you […]
As you’re familiar with my issues with body hair transplants (BHT) due to differences in growth cycle, length, and character, I won’t get into it again here. For those unfamiliar with my stance, you can read about it here, here, and here. It is technically possible to do what you’re asking, but whether it adds […]
I’m often outspoken about the problems with ethics in our industry, and I know I just wrote about transplant failures a couple months ago… but I continue to see a large number of patients who are unsatisfied with the growth after their hair transplants. Part of me really hates writing these types of posts, because […]
For those readers who does not know about trichodynia, it is a condition where the patient experiences a painful, burning sensation on their scalp. From Wikipedia — “Often there is an underlying psychosomatic cause, such as stress, depression or anxiety.” It also could be caused by trauma to a nerve(s) from the surgical wounds created […]
Without knowing more about your case, it would be difficult to provide much precise information. Sometimes a thin look can appear under harsh lighting because of your hair color, hair character, thickness, etc. The Rogaine and Propecia are good to continue using, but after a year you should’ve seen results by now from the surgery. […]
Hair transplantation that failed is a subject you should discuss with the doctor who performed it. This doctor should give you a reasonable opinion as to why the failure occurred. When a hair transplant is unsuccessful, it is almost always caused by technical failures of the surgeon and his team. On rare occasions, the patient […]
FUE is not a perfect technique and it has a higher failure rate than the standard strip surgery, as the follicular units are often stripped of fat at the bottom of the grafts. Also, body hair transplants do not work to my satisfaction, because body hair does not grow the way scalp hair does. Body […]
I think that the technology has been pushed as far as it can go as we mimic just what nature does. The problems in the community are mainly related to the surgical team, and a few issues with physician education. Too many doctors are doing this with inexperienced teams of assistants, so the practical problem […]
I recently met with a hair transplant doctor from Asia who confided with me that the results from those doctors who use the Choi implanter are generally poor. For reasons unclear to me, it seems that many of the doctors in Asia have not mastered the techniques for manual preparation and the placing of grafts. […]
Generally, delaying hair transplants just increases the suffering time for those individuals who are bothered by the balding process. Why delay a hair transplant when the young man needs and wants the youthful impact of a full head of hair? If you wait until you are 60 years old, then you will look older until […]
We performed a study on grafts being secure after a hair transplant by pulling our grafts on successive days. We found that at 12 days, the grafts are secure. If you were gentle on the washing technique, usually the scabs that remain will loosen easily with soap and water. I don’t think you did anything […]
Body hair transplants are not generally considered accepted treatment for balding. It is considered more on the experimental side. As for costs, it really depends on the doctor. As body hair transplantation is done with follicular unit extraction (FUE), costs are likely higher than a traditional strip surgery using scalp hair anyway. That is moot […]
In the cases I’ve seen, body hair transplantation (BHT) does not look natural at all. A while ago I saw a picture in the National Enquirer that showed a person who had his head transplanted with pubic hair. The transplants kept their hair character in the transplanted process… and no surprise, it looked like he […]
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