To keep the blog readers up to speed, your original question (and my answer) can be found here: Transplant Failure To Grow. You should see growth by this time. I would suggest that you make an appointment to see me personally. I will try to judge what has happened. Please try to get the preoperative […]
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You are correct that fewer and fewer horror stories are appearing because today’s techniques are much better than those of the 80s and early 90s. Certainly, the quality of the work of the top notch surgeons has improved to produce virtually undetectable transplants. The focus of those surgeons is now on improving the growth of […]
It is clear that you are a perfectionist, for only a perfectionist would notice your problem. The problems are that the grafts in the frontal line are two hairs each, the hair seems to point outwardly, rather than forward and the frontal grafts are a straight line that line up like soldiers. These two problems […]
Your question comes right after I met a fellow in my office today who asked about the same subject, removing his transplants completely and going back to his normal balding state. You are correct to worry about the deforming issues if the grafts were anything but today’s modern follicular unit grafts with skin trimmed down […]
This is a failure of the transplant unless your surgeon placed far less than the 2200 grafts you reported. I would go back to have a frank discussion with your surgeon as you paid good money to have this done. The most frequent reasons for hair transplant failure, is some technical glitch or lack of […]
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 […]
When we wrote about DUPA in the medical literature back in 1995 (PDF here), the diagnosis required that the physician look at the donor area with high power magnification. With my invention of the hair densitometer with patent issued in 1994 (U.S. Patent 5,331,472 – Method and Apparatus for Measuring Hair Density July, 1994) the […]
I keep seeing more and more patients that come in to meet with me after the hair transplants they got elsewhere failed to grow. This seems to be the case in large session grafting, usually above 2000 grafts. Last week I met with another young man who had 3000 grafts transplanted at a clinic with […]
Note: The annual meeting of hair surgeons was in held in Alaska this past week. The following review is very selective and is biased by the things that were interesting to me and what I (Dr. Rassman) thought could be interesting to the readers. This is part 7. More to come… *** Robot assisted hair […]
As one might assume, I receive quite a few emails each and every day from prospective patients both through my NHI site and this blog. It seems that everyone knows the Norwood patterns of hair loss (that’s a good thing), so these emails fundamentally focus upon identifying where the person believes his hair loss is […]
A sunburn will not damage the transplanted grafts as they are below the top (cutin) layer of the skin… that is, unless you burned it so severely that the skin heavily crusted after the burn. If the transplants did not grow, you should speak with your surgeon about that problem and see what he/she will […]
I just got back from the 17th annual scientific ISHRS meeting (basically a hair transplant doctor’s convention), which went on from July 22-26. Lots of information was presented… lots of lectures, presentations, and discussions. This year’s meeting was in Amsterdam, so I had quite a long flight back to California when it was all over […]
You’re right in that I cannot make a personal diagnosis over the Internet. You report Diffuse Patterned Alopecia which does not define what you have. I am assuming that you do not have the diffuse form of alopecia areata which is an autoimmune disease (very rare in young men) and if you had it, it […]
Great question and an important one as well. We are all sensitive to price and there is no doubt that if you can buy the ‘car’ cheaper from one dealer, why pay the higher price from another dealer. The higher price dealers try to sell service, but the reality is that a Lexus is a […]
Part of what is important about being a doctor is the concept of mutual respect. The person who wrote the email to me on this blog, is analytical and clearly fully aware of the subject material. Good communication produces respect so a doctor should spend an appropriate amount of time and focused attention to address […]
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