In my experience, performing hair transplants on firefighters, police officers, and soldiers can be a problem, not because they are different from you and I, but simply because they tend to get more good-natured teasing from their colleagues when issues of vanity come up. Although I haven’t seen any formal studies about it, I’ve found […]
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You might have an unusual genetic pattern of hair loss. Does any member of your family have a similar pattern? It is impossible for me, over the internet, to diagnose your problem. If you are in California, come see me. As an aside, I have not been aware of anyone doing hand or arm hair […]
I do not endorse body hair transplantation (BHT), because it is not the standard of care in hair transplant surgery. Body hair does not grow the same length or texture as scalp hair. Furthermore, the growth cycle of body hair is much slower and different than scalp hair. The growth phase for the hairs is […]
Hair transplant to the pubic area is a relatively common procedure that is not well publicized. Surprisingly, many Asian women have pubic hair transplants with good results. There is no reason why men cannot have the same procedure. We are an equal opportunity surgery center.
Attempts are being made, but keep in mind an undetectable natural looking hair transplant is a medical miracle in itself also. Today’s transplants work now, so waiting for the cloning miracle which may or may not come in your lifetime, will only guarantee balding for many of those that want to wait.
The cause of hair loss in women is not as straight forward as it is in men, who usually follow a specific male pattern balding. Male pattern balding involves hair loss only on the front, top, and crown of the scalp. Male pattern balding spares the hair in the back and sides of the scalp, […]
Hair transplants will grow in some scars better than other scars. It depends how much infrastructure is in the skin (fat, blood vessels, stem cells, etc..) I have seen remarkable results from tissue expansion for large areas of scalp burns. The results are better with tissue expansion and as such has no comparison. Also, the […]
All medical facilities should follow established operating guidelines, but there are no guarantees. The HIV virus dies almost immediately when the virus is outside of the body and exposed to air. Hepatitis is more robust and some forms of the virus can move more easily between people. One of the reassurances may be to ask […]
I am not aware of anyone working on this today. There is a problem in that any hairs that are glued to existing hair will ‘pull out’ the existing hair and create traction alopecia. I’d love the opportunity to talk to you about it.
Body hair transplantation is still considered experimental in my opinion. Furthermore, body hair does not have the same growth cycle as scalp hair and most of the body hair is dormant (not growing). Thus, the success or growth of a body hair transplant is highly variable and rarely will more than 50% of the body […]
These are important questions. First of all, Propecia (finasteride) at the 1mg dose adequately slows down hair loss in all men undergoing genetic hair loss. I am firm about this opinion so if you are thinning, then finasteride is a critical correct step in the process. If you stop taking it, you develop what I […]
I have written about body hair transplants extensively in this blog (search for body hair transplants). Be very careful with body hair transplants; the failure rate is very high. I would be concerned that if your hair is see-through on the sides and back of your head (I assume that is what you mean by […]
I am having difficulty with the first picture on the referenced site. This is not a hair transplant, but someone with a thick, natural head of hair. From a legal point of view, the inference that this representation of a transplant is fraudulent and violates consumer laws in most states. It may have just been […]
I am afraid it is not so simple as you present it. The theory is good (stem cells will be a source of new hair), but that is simplistic. The problem of trying to grow hair from stem cells has defeated many researchers who see billions of dollars in successfully cloning hair from stem cells. […]
The procedure known as follicular unit extraction (FUE) was first published by me in 2002 and it discusses minimally invasive hair transplants where individual follicular units are removed one at a time. There is no linear scar with this technique and you can clip your hair short as you want. I would not take it […]
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