HAIR RESTORATION AND THE SCARRED SCALP
posted by Sheldon S. Kabaker, MD, FISHRS on May 19, 2014 Baldness (alopecia) secondary to certain dermatologic diseases or scalp injury and subsequent scarring is called cicatricial or scarring alopecia. In …
CBC NEWS MENTIONS ISHRS IN BEARD TRANSPLANT STORY
This week, the ISHRS was highlighted in the CBC News discussing the latest trend in Hair Restoration Surgery, Beard transplants. Society is changing its way and beards are far …
HAIR LOSS IN YOUNG MEN
Hair loss in young men: this is your father’s male patterned baldness. Unfortunately for some young men or teens, this is your father’s hair loss you now see …
HAIR LOSS MYTHS
Myths about hair loss. You’ve probably been a part of a conversation like this—maybe around the holidays or at a bar with some friends. One friend will tell …
With Medical History, Honesty is the Best Policy
Everyone has a bad habit they are not particularly proud to talk about. Few people boast about how many packs of cigarettes they smoke or cans of beer they …
REASONS TO DELAY YOUR HAIR TRANSPLANTATION SURGERY
Stop: Good reasons to delay your hair transplantation surgery. Some young men with male-pattern baldness begin seeing their hair recede at an early age may be inclined to …
ABOUT YOUR NEW HAIRLINE
When you have a full head of hair you probably don’t pay much attention to your hairline. Like your other facial features, it is just there—the place where your scalp …
HAIR GROOMING & STYLING AFTER HAIR RESTORATION SURGERY
Hair grooming and styling are the final steps in giving a person the desired appearance after surgical hair restoration. Transplantation or other surgical hair restoration procedures (see Surgical Hair …
AFTER HAIR RESTORATION SURGERY
The pain associated with the procedure is one of the greatest fears confronting the potential hair restoration patient. You should be concerned about the discomfort associated with the surgery. …
HAIRPIECES, HAIR WEAVES AND EXTENSIONS
Some people want “a little extra” to enhance medical or surgical hair restoration (hair implants). Other people are temporarily or permanently unable to grow hair and are therefore …
DO-IT-YOURSELF HAIR LOSS TREATMENTS
Have you been using an over-the-counter hair loss treatment that “guarantees” to stop hair loss and stimulate growth of new hair? Has it performed as the label promises? Is your hair loss …
HAIR LOSS AND THE HAIR GROWTH CYCLE
It is important to understand the normal hair growth cycle to understand why hair loss occurs. The hair follicle is an anatomical structure that evolved to produce and extrude (push …
YOUNG MALE HAIR LOSS
Is Hair Transplantation the Answer? Hair Loss is commonly thought of as something that occurs only in older men. But it happens in younger men, too—those who are …
EFFECTIVENESS OF 5% MINOXIDIL IN TREATING MALE-PATTERN HAIR LOSS
Two new studies of the effects of 5% minoxidil in treating male-pattern hair loss report that a majority of patients found: A rapid onset of action in promoting new hair …
MALE HAIR LOSS & PATTERN BALDNESS IN MEN
It is estimated that 35 million men in the United States are affected by male pattern baldness or androgenetic alopecia. “Andro” refers to the androgens (testosterone, dihydrotestosterone) necessary to produce male-pattern hair loss …
TISSUE ENGINEERING (HAIR FOLLICLE CLONING)
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 …
FOLLICULAR UNIT TRANSPLANTATION & EXTRACTION
Follicular unit transplantation and follicular unit extraction (FUE, also known as the FOX Procedure) are recent and widely discussed surgical procedures for hair restoration. Follicular unit (FU) extraction is a …
UNRAVELING THE SECRETS OF THE HAIR CYCLE
We look in the mirror to comb and brush our hair in the morning, to rearrange mussed-up hair, to check on hair styling and perhaps to regret the loss of …
HAIR RESTORATION SURGERY BEGINS WITH WHY YOU WANT HAIR RESTORATION SURGERY AND WHAT YOU EXPECT IT TO DO FOR YOU
Hair restoration surgery (hair transplantation, scalp expansion, flap grafting, etc.- See Surgical Hair Restoration) does exactly what its name says it does-it restores hair to areas of hair loss. …
TOUCHING ALL THE BASES: QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION POINTS
Touching All the Bases: Questions and Discussion Points Should All be Addressed Before Hair Transplantation is Undertaken Hair transplantation is a cosmetic surgery procedure and that means …
OTHER HAIR LOSS CAUSES
Here are some other possible causes for your hair loss: Alopecia Areata Alopecia areata (AA) is a recurrent disease, which can cause hairloss in any hair-bearing area. The …
FOLLICULAR UNIT EXTRACTION (FUE): MANUAL AND POWERED-DEVICE-ASSISTED
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 …
COMPARISON BETWEEN STRIP HARVESTING AND FOLLICULAR UNIT EXTRACTION: A FAIR AND BALANCED VIEW
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 …
PLATELET-RICH PLASMA IN HAIR TRANSPLANTATION
Introduction: Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Men and women who are considering hair transplantation are likely to research the subject first, including search of the World Wide Web. A Web search of …
WHAT HAIR LOSS MEANS TO ME AND MY IMAGE OF MYSELF
To say that every person is a unique individual is somewhat trite, but it is a trite saying that is also true. We inherit genes from our parents that shape …
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 …
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 …
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 …