The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) is a global non-profit medical association and the leading authority on hair loss treatment and restoration. With more than 1,000 members throughout 70 countries worldwide, the ISHRS is dedicated to achieving excellence in patient outcomes by promoting the highest standards of medical practice, medical ethics, and research in the medical hair restoration industry.
The ISHRS was founded in 1993 as the first international society to promote continuing quality improvement and education for professionals in the field of medical hair restoration surgery. The society provides continuing medical education to physicians specializing in hair transplant surgery and is committed to delivering the latest information on medical and surgical treatments to consumers suffering from hair loss, most commonly from androgenetic alopecia – male pattern baldness and female pattern hair loss.
UPDATE FROM ISHRS TASK FORCE ON FINASTERIDE ADVERSE EVENT CONTROVERSIES
Posted by ISHRS on December 17, 2015 Finasteride is approved by the U.S. FDA as…
Ask Your Hair Restoration Surgeon: Questions to Have Confidence Before Surgery
There’s no such thing as a dumb question… Before you make a final commitment for…
ISHRS LEGAL UPDATE: DELEGATION OF SURGERY IN HAIR TRANSPLANTATION
ISHRS LEGAL UPDATE: DELEGATION OF SURGERY IN HAIR TRANSPLANTATION October 2016 The ISHRS shares, from…
FUE INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR USE
Improvements in instrument technology and technique have now made follicular unit extraction (FUE) a procedure…
FOLLICULAR UNIT EXTRACTION: IT HAS GROWN IN POPULARITY, BUT TRANSECTION REMAINS A CONCERN
Follicular unit extraction is one of the techniques for obtaining donor hair for hair transplantation….
EARLY HAIR LOSS – THE YOUNG PATIENT
Authored by, Masahisa Nagai, MD, FISHRS Physicians do not typically recommend performing hair transplant surgery…
ALOPECIA IN BLACK WOMEN: ARE MORE BLACK WOMEN SUFFERING HAIR LOSS?
Female hair loss occurs in all races. However, recently Dermatologists reports African American women in…
EVALUATING FEMALE HAIR LOSS PATIENTS
Evaluating female hair loss and female baldness Diagnosing female hair loss is time-consuming, yet extremely…
Medications for FEMALE PATTERN HAIR LOSS
Female pattern hair loss cures… Does anything really work for women? posted by Nicole E. Rogers,…
CALVIZIE FEMMINILE E PREDISPOSIZIONE GENETICA NELLA DONNA
La calvizie femminile può manifestarsi secondo schemi diversi. Se sei una donna con problemi di…
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL TREATMENTS OF FEMALE AGA
Female AGA: medical and surgical treatments for female androgenetic alopecia posted by Vance W. Elliott, MD,…
EYEBROW & EYELASH HAIR RESTORATION SURGERY
Eyebrow hair restoration Surgery and eyelash surgery posted by James A. Harris, MD, FISHRS Eyebrows and…