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 in the mirror. Male pattern baldness can strike some men at a very young age, causing some brief panic that spurs them to make rash or hasty decisions. But here’s …
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 you: “Jim is losing his hair because he wears a hat all day on the job.” Usually, comments like that are met with quiet acceptance. Absent with facts at …
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 consume, with good reason. However, when it comes to your personal health, especially when you are completing your medical history for your hair restoration surgeon, honesty, and openness is the …
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 rush to begin the hair restoration process. But hair restoration surgeons know that, with young men, it sometimes pays to be patient. Some factors that may persuade you from jumping …
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 borders your forehead and frames your face. When you lose all or part of your hairline due to androgenetic alopecia or other cause, you lose a distinctive facial feature. …
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 Restoration Treatments for information about procedures) restore hair to scalp areas where it was lost. Hair grooming and styling, when well done and regularly maintained, improve the final result of hair …
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. This is natural and questions about discomfort and its control should be discussed with the physician prior to surgery. Surgical hair restoration actually results in less operative discomfort than …
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 not candidates for transplantation. And some may want to avoid any type of surgical procedure (hair implants) or may be attracted to the promise of unlimited density and fullness. …
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 continuing, without a sign of new hair growth? If the answer is “yes” to all of the above, you have joined a very large club made up of people who …
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 out) a hair shaft. Hair is made up of proteins called keratins. Human hair grows in a continuous cyclic pattern of growth and rests known as the “hair growth cycle“. …
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 not yet 21 years old. Because hair loss is generally unexpected before age 21 it can be a shock for a young man 15 to 20 years old to …
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 growth. Very effective to effective results in promoting new hair growth over the period of treatment. Decreased hair loss. Minimal side effects. Minoxidil is a topical hair restoration agent that …
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 (MPHL). “Genetic” refers to the inherited gene necessary for MPHL to occur. In men who develop male pattern baldness the hair loss may begin any time after puberty when blood …
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 …
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 procedure for obtaining follicular graft units from donor areas on the scalp. Follicular unit transplantation is the surgical procedure for transplanting follicular unit into the scalp. The FU is identified …
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. When we comb and brush we find strands of hair in the comb and brush, on the vanity stand under the mirror, and on our clothing. We may or …