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 something even more valuable – more hair. The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) – the world’s leading medical authority on hair loss and hair restoration – participated in …
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 largest international medical association of hair restoration physicians and surgical assistants – can now designate its educational activities with AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. “This accreditation represents a significant milestone …
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 a new experience in human history. We recognize Socrates and Julius Caesar as men with typical male-pattern hair loss. We can presume that they were representative of men of their …
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 at the removal site is not compromised. This “auto-cloning” of beard hairs may be particularly effective for balding men who have little scalp hair left for transplantation, and for …
The 2nd Congress of the Arab Association of Hair Transplantation, one of our Global Council members, was held in Egypt and was a big success. There were around 70 attendees, mostly local, who enjoyed high quality lectures from the esteemed faculty. The course was geared to give a comprehensive overview of almost everything involved in managing the hair loss patient. …
Hair restoration surgery success stories: Wes Welker by Robert T. Leonard, Jr., DO, FISHRS on February 3, 2015 Balding men everywhere got a small victory when NFL Player Wes Welker spoke publicly about his hair restoration surgery. It’s not uncommon to see balding men consistently depicted in the media as bumbling and less than masculine. For every Michael Jordan out there, there …
The possibility of creating a large number of hair follicles from a single hair follicle is sometimes inaccurately referred to as “hair follicle cloning”. The term cloning is used by scientists to refer to the technique where genes are inserted into a cell, and the daughter cells all have the same gene. Genes are sequences of DNA which code for …
Male Pattern Baldness or Androgenic Alopecia is the most common form of hair loss in men and a study shows a link between baldness and prostate cancer. The Journal of Clinical Oncology’s September 2014 issue reported a link to an increased risk of prostate cancer, some more aggressive, in males sharing a common pathophysiologic mechanism. Their research studied over 39,000 …
ISHRS Position Statement on Qualifications for Scalp Surgery Ten years ago the use of follicular unit extraction (FUE) was advocated as an alternative to traditional strip harvesting of the donor tissue. The use of the technique has been slow to be accepted as a new standard. Many physicians have, in fact, tried the technique but with markedly varying success. The …
Follicular unit extraction is one of the techniques for obtaining donor hair for hair transplantation. It is a technique that requires more skill from the physician hair restoration specialist and more cost from the patient than does strip harvesting (removal of a strip of scalp tissue bearing hundreds of follicular units). It is also a technique with potential benefits for …
Improvements in instrument technology and technique have made follicular unit extraction (FUE) a procedure competitive with strip harvesting for obtaining donor hair for hair transplantation. Follicular unit extraction (FUE) is one of the techniques for obtaining donor hair for hair transplantation Donor Site: The Savings and Loan of Hair Transplantation. FUE is a technique Hair Follicular Units that requires more skill on the …
Gabby Douglas as hair role model? We here at the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery are Olympics’ fans like everyone else. Normally, you wouldn’t think the Olympics would create a hair controversy, but this year, we caught a whiff of a media stir that merits our comment. When U.S. gymnast Gabby Douglas was winning gold medals for her tumbling …
Authored by, Masahisa Nagai, MD, FISHRS Physicians do not typically recommend performing hair transplant surgery on anyone younger than 20 years old. They may have patients who notice hair loss and an early age, and who are tempted to do something about it immediately. However, immediate surgery is not recommended for anyone under age 20. First, other options and contributing …
Ask your hair restoration doctor: the ISHRS fellows answer your hair restoration and hair loss questions How do you prevent and treat post-operative folliculitis? Paul J. McAndrews, MD, FISHRS Folliculitis is inflammation of the hair follicle from various etiologies—foreign body, bacterial, occlusive, chemical, etc. It is my belief that the most common cause of folliculitis following …
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 as a result of an accident, trauma or disease with physicians willing to help people who lack the resources to obtain treatment on their own. Since its inception in 2004, …
