HAIR LOSS IN WOMEN: ASSESSING THE LOSS AND DEVELOPING A TREATMENT PLAN
I’m losing more hair than usual when I comb, brush and shampoo. Am I Going to Lose All of My Hair? What Can I Do to Stop Losing Hair? …
Backgrounder: Operation Restore Case Studies
GENEVA, IL – September 8, 2008 Operation Restore is the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery’s (ISHRS) pro-bono program, designed to match prospective hair restoration patients suffering from hair loss …
ISHRS Announces New Collaboration with the Hair Foundation to Raise Funds for Operation Restore Pro-Bono Program
Monday, September 8, 2008 GENEVA, IL. – September 8, 2008. The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) – the world’s leading medical authority on hair loss and hair restoration …
Pro-Bono Program Goes to Great Lengths to Give Hair Loss Patients Their Hair, Self-Esteem Back
Monday, September 8, 2008 North Carolina woman who suffered hair loss after a traumatic injury is one of a dozen patients who have received free hair restoration surgery GENEVA, IL. …
HAIR RESTORATION MEDICATIONS: A SUMMARY AT A GLANCE
You notice that you are beginning to lose hair and you want to halt or reverse hair loss if you can. One of your options is a medical approach to …
ISHRS Hosts 16th Annual Scientific Meeting in Montreal, September 3-7, 2008
World’s Leading Hair Restoration Physicians Gather to Present Latest Research, Scientific Advances in Diagnosing and Treating Hair Loss GENEVA, IL. – August 14, 2008. From promising new research in cell …
TRANSPLANTATION OF GRAYING AND GRAY HAIR
Can gray hair be transplanted? That is a question often asked when a person with graying or gray hair begins to experience hair loss due to androgenetic alopecia, the condition …
New Online Survey Challenges the Public to Identify Hair Transplant Patients from Series of Photos
GENEVA, IL. – December 18, 2006. While most men would be thrilled to get a plasma TV this holiday season, some men would be willing to part with one for …
ETHNIC AND GENDER CONSIDERATIONS IN HAIR TRANSPLANTATION
Vive le difference is a phrase that celebrates the features making us individuals. Features contributing to an individual’s include gender (male-ness or female-ness) and ethnicity (for example, East Asian, South Asian, …
WORRYING ABOUT HAIR LOSS: AN EXPERT CONSULTATION CAN REFRAME YOUR QUESTIONS AND PROVIDE ANSWERS
Sometimes your mirror raises the first question: Is that a spot where I’m beginning to lose hair? Or, it may be your comb and brush or the shower drain: It …
COMBINED SURGICAL AND MEDICAL HAIR RESTORATION THERAPY: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH
Medical hair restoration therapy and hair transplantation are two different approaches to the correction of hair loss due to androgenetic alopecia. Either medical hair restoration or surgical hair restoration may be the best approach to hair …
COMPARING APPLES TO APPLES: BENCHMARKS TO PREDICT OUTCOME
Comparing Apples with Apples and Oranges with Oranges in Hair Transplantation: What Benchmarks Should a Patient Rely on to Predict Outcome? The purpose of hair transplantation is cosmetic improvement, but …
ANESTHESIA: MAXIMIZING PATIENT COMFORT IN SURGICAL HAIR RESTORATION
An important-and for some prospective patients the most important-question regarding hair restoration surgery is: Will it be painful? Different people have different levels of susceptibility to the unpleasant sensations associated …
HAIR GRAFT PLACEMENT: THE FINAL STEP IN HAIR TRANSPLANTATION
The final and esthetically important surgical step in hair transplantation is placement of hair grafts into the scalp. A graft is the tissue unit of one or more hair follicles …
ISHRS Hosts 15th Annual Scientific Meeting in Las Vegas, Sep 26-30, 2007
World’s Leading Hair Restoration Physicians Gather to Present Latest Research, Scientific Advances in Diagnosing and Treating Hair Loss GENEVA, IL. – August 30, 2007. From new data of the first …
HAIR CHARACTERISTICS: A MAJOR CONSIDERATION IN HAIR TRANSPLANTATION
What are the characteristics of scalp hair that contribute to a person’s unique appearance? The characteristics commonly noted are: Color-blond, red, brown, black and varying shades of each. …
SMOKING, DRINKING, MEDICATIONS AND HERBAL PRODUCTS CAN ALL AFFECT THE COURSE OF YOUR HAIR RESTORATION SURGERY
Do you smoke? Do you drink alcoholic beverages? What medications do you take? Do you use herbal “health food” products? These are questions a patient will be asked before undergoing …
ISHRS 2007 Practice Census Survey (German Version)
Neue Umfrage zeigt einen Anstieg von 34 Prozent in durchgeführten Behandlungen zur Haarwiederherstellung im Jahr 2006 GENEVA, Illinois, 20. Juni – Jüngere Patienten und Frauen, die sich chirurgisch behandeln lassen, …
ISHRS 2007 Practice Census Facts and Figures
Extrapolated Number of Hair Restoration Procedures Worldwide An estimated 225,800 hair restoration procedures were performed worldwide in 2006 (a 34% increase from 2004) In the United States, 100,445 hair restoration …
HAIR LOSS AND THE APPEARANCE OF AGING
Age-Appropriate Appearance One of the most common reasons for men and women to consider hair transplantation is to overcome what they perceive to be an age-inappropriate appearance. They don’t …
MALE AND FEMALE PATTERN HAIR LOSS: GENE DRIVEN BUT NOT YOUR GENETIC FATE
Androgenetic alopecia, male and female pattern hair loss, is known to have a genetic basis. It is an inheritable condition, commonly described as “running in the family”. Having close family …
ISHRS Male Pattern Hair Loss Online Survey
GENEVA, IL. – December 18, 2006. While most men would be thrilled to get a plasma TV this holiday season, some men would be willing to part with one for …
EXPECTATIONS AND DECISION-MAKING IN HAIR RESTORATION SURGERY
When a prospective patient consults a physician hair restoration specialist, he comes with a set of reasons for seeking hair restoration. The patient may be a man or woman; most …
UNDERSTANDING SOMEONE ELSE’S HAIR TRANSPLANT
Maybe you have never given much thought to hair transplantation. That’s very likely if you are an adult man or woman who has a full head of hair. It may …
2006 Consumer Hair Loss Survey Fact Sheet
Thursday, July 20, 2006 Hair loss is caused by which of the following? 82% of adults correctly identified heredity as a cause of hair loss. Nearly six in 10 adults …
ISHRS 2005 Practice Census Fact Sheet
Extrapolated Number of Hair Restoration Procedures Worldwide 168,155 hair restoration procedures were performed worldwide in 2004 In the United States, 87,987 hair restoration procedures were performed In Canada, …
ISHRS Commissions National Consumer Survey on Hair Loss
GENEVA, IL. – July 20, 2006. In a recent survey commissioned by the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) – the world’s leading medical authority on hair loss and …
STRATEGIES FOR COSMETIC IMPROVEMENT WHEN HAIR TRANSPLANTATION MUST BE DELAYED
Some men with male-pattern hair loss are candidates for a delayed approach to hair transplantation. This may be especially applicable to adolescent and very young adult men who are beginning …
HAIR COLOR: WHY DO YOU HAVE BLOND, RED, BROWN OR BLACK HAIR, AND WHY DOES IT TURN GRAY AND WHITE?
The color of your hair is largely determined by the genes that you inherited from your parents and their ancestors. There are a few exceptions, mostly associated with disease or …
ISHRS Achieves ACCME Accreditation for Educational Activities
Geneva, IL – April 4, 2006. By receiving accreditation this year from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) – the …