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 …
HAIR RESTORATION IN THE SCARRED SCALP
Your head is one of the parts of your body most vulnerable to injury. Head injury often includes injury to the scalp and eyebrows, resulting in the destruction of hair …
Hair Restoration Society Completes Survey; Results Support Recognition as Medical Discipline
Geneva, IL – An estimated 168,155 hair transplant procedures were performed worldwide last year; 87,987 in the U.S., according to a recent international survey conducted by the International Society of …
Temporary Hair Loss: It’s Temporary But Can Be Worrisome
From infancy to old age, everyone loses hair every day as hair follicles go through their normal cyclic activity of anagen (growth phase), catagen (shedding phase) and telogen (resting phase). …
USING FINASTERIDE (PROPECIA®) AS A HAIR LOSS TREATMENT
Finasteride (brand name Propecia®) is an orally administered medication for male pattern hair loss (MPHL). It is the only specific MPHL treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration …
A Guide to Hair Transplantation After Age 50
Older men with hair loss can be confident that age, in itself, does not exclude them from having hair transplantation. Men are seldom “too old” to consider hair transplantation as …
HAIR LOSS & HAIR RESTORATION REQUIRE PERSONAL & INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION
Science is rapidly advancing our understanding of the causes of hair loss. The successful treatment of hair loss is being rapidly advanced by physician hair restoration specialists who use scientific …
USING YOUR HAIR TO CREATE YOUR UNIQUELY INDIVIDUAL HAIR RESTORATION: FROM DONOR SITE TO RECIPIENT SITE AND END RESULT
The goal of hair transplantation is to give you, the patient, completely natural-appearing hair growth that expresses your unique individuality. Advances in hair transplantation techniques, procedures, and technology make this …
THE DONOR SITE: SAVINGS & LOAN OF HAIR FOR TRANSPLANTATION
Definition of the Donor Site When hair-bearing tissue is withdrawn from one area of the scalp for transplantation to an area that is hairless due to male-pattern hair loss (MPHL), …
FOLLOWUP HAIR RESTORATION PROCEDURES
Surgical hair restoration is a permanent solution for male or female pattern baldness (androgenetic alopecia). Often patients require a second procedure or series of hair replacement procedures for the following …
YOUR MEDICAL TREATMENT HISTORY: IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH YOUR HAIR RESTORATION PHYSICIAN
What do treatment for severe acne, daily aspirin to prevent heart attack, and heavy smoking or drinking have to do with hair restoration surgery? They are all risk factors …
11-Year-Old Fire Victim
NEW YORK (August 2, 2004)– Seven years ago, a then 4-year old Mitchel was trying to help out his father by refueling the lawn mower. He was attempting to fill …
HAIR TRANSPLANTATION BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN YOU
Several recent television reality programs took cosmetic surgery “makeover” as their theme. A typical story line was to present a person who’s real or self-perceived cosmetic imperfections are corrected by …
IT’S OKAY TO SAY NO TO HAIR LOSS & YES TO HAIR RESTORATION
In Shakespeare’s play “The Comedy of Errors”, characters make the rueful observation that Father Time is unkind to men, causing them to lose hair as they age. And, other than …
From Laboratory Research to New Techniques in the Surgical Clinic: Why is Hair Lost? How Can Hair Be Re-grown? What Are the Best Approaches to Hair Restoration?
NEW YORK (October 16, 2003)– Look at the pictures on ancient Greek vases or at the sculpted busts of eminent ancient Romans and you can see that baldness is not …
“Auto-Cloning” of Beard Hair Used to Increase Supply of Donor Hair for Transplantation to Scalp
NEW YORK (October 16, 2003)– Beard whiskers, carefully removed, may offer an inexhaustible supply of hair for transplantation to the scalp. With proper removal technique, the continued growth of beard …
Hair Transplants That Don’t Look Like Transplants: Follicular Unit Transplantation Led the Way
NEW YORK (October 16, 2003)– Men who had hair transplants 20 or more years ago were likely to have their transplants “noticed” by friends, colleagues and strangers. Far from being …
Low-Level Laser Therapy is Now a Do-It-Yourself Hair Loss Treatment
NEW YORK (October 16, 2003)– While lasers are best known as high-energy beams of coherent light that can cut through a variety of materials including human tissue, low-energy laser light …
Follicular Unit Extraction Brings Minimally Invasive Surgery Technique to Hair Transplantation
NEW YORK (October 16, 2003)– Hair transplantation is a two-part surgical procedure. First, the hair that is to be transplanted is surgically removed from the donor area on the scalp-most …
HARVESTING OF DONOR HAIR FOR HAIR TRANSPLANTS
Hair transplant surgery takes hair and follicles from a hair-bearing area of the scalp and places them into a scalp area where hair has been lost. The donor site is …
HAIR UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
Hair restoration has progressed rapidly since its introduction about 50 years ago. Innovative hair restoration surgeons steadily improved surgical techniques which led to the refinement of the aesthetic aspects of …
FINASTERIDE AND PROSTATE CANCER
5mg Finasteride’s Effect on Prostate Cancer What Does This New England Journal of Medicine Paper Mean for Users of Finasteride 1 mg (Propecia®)? The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial reported …
HAIR FOLLICLE ORIGIN
In the very early development of the human embryo, there is no indication of anything resembling a hair follicle. Neither is there an indication of anything resembling bone, nerves, internal …
Largest Group of Hair Surgeons to Meet in New York, October 15-19, 2003
NEW YORK (April 4, 2003)– Advances in hair follicle microsurgery, hair follicle cloning and hair restoration drug development are compelling topics today in the rapidly evolving field of hair restoration …
HAIR RESTORATION AND SERVICE NAMES
If you have been thinking about hair restoration, you have probably discovered that hair restoration, replacement and transplants are surgical procedures marketed under many service-marked names. You can probably find …
THE WEATHERING OF HAIR: HOW HAIR DAMAGE MAKES THE LEAST OF WHAT YOU HAVE
The wrinkled, bone-dry, parchment-like skin of a person who spends much of their life in the wind and sun is said to be “weathered”. While “weathering” is a term very …
SCALP SKIN CONDITIONS & DISORDERS
Among the most common conditions of the human scalp are flaking dead skin cells (dandruff), excessive oiliness (seborrhea), and oily crusts adhering to inflamed, itchy, moist scalp skin (seborrheic dermatitis). …