is it possible to transplant finer, smaller or thinner eyebrow hair follicles in areas surrounding or outside the edges of the thicker darker hairs of the eyebrow?
You can decrease the diameter of the hair follicle (make it finer) by damaging it in a controlled manner during the transplant procedure. This may reduce the survival of some of the hairs, but the procedure works well only in very experienced hands.
I am 36 years old and stopped my Propecia after taking if for a few years. That was two months ago. Now, all of the hair in front fell out in just two months. I was concerned about the cost and that is why I stopped it. What can I do?
After two months, it is possible that the hair may return. Frontal hair is more difficult to predict than the crown area. At 36, your genetic class is catching up to you. I can not tell you want will happen, but do suggest that you go back on it immediately and hope the hair returns. Those who are younger and have hair loss in the back tend to reverse more easily than men of your age.
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In FUE / FIT — Minimally Invasive Hair Transplants you said: “One tool worked consistently at 100%, while others methods had failure rates in the same patient ranging from 90-20%.”
Is that a typo (should it be 9-20%), or is it really 90-20%? Also by “failure”, do you mean failure to extract the graft, or failure for the graft to grow?
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My focus here was on the various tools that produce different results in different patients during the harvesting process. What I was doing was counting hairs that were successfully harvested with each tool I was using and keeping track of the hairs that failed to be harvested. One tool in the particular referenced patient produced 100% successful harvesting, while other tools caused more hair loss during the harvesting process. The problem that I was sharing was that one tool does not always work the same in every patient, so there is a great art in the harvesting process for FUE and the surgeon must be aware of all approaches to determine what works best for each patient. Still, with that said, not every patient is a candidate for FUE for either technical reasons (10% are not candidates) or for indications, matching expectations with reality, desires, budgets and the number of grafts needed to accomplish objectives.
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Whenever cloning would happen…say 10,20,30 yrs from now, If I will have gray hair…and a veryyyy little black hair…and if the black hair is multiplied, then after those mulitplied black hair are plugged back onto the scalp…will they all grow black or gray?
The cloned hair would take on the characteristics of its original hair because its growth and color pattern will be determined by its gene. Based upon the way the cloning is carried out, if the hair is your own, there is no present understanding of the ‘expression’ of that hair. Color seems not to be high on the cloning agenda. If the genes dictate that the hair will start out black and turn gray through a preset time, then the hair will follow that pattern. However, environmental factors may affect the gene expression earlier or later than anticipated, but we are too early in the learning curve to answer a question like this. Thus, your hair growth and colors will depend on both genetic and environmental factors.
My question is that I lost a lot of hair from checmical damage such as excessive dying. Will my hair ever grow back? It has been four and half years and it has yet to grow. I am still very young and this has affected my psychological well being. Is rogaine safe to use, considering my hair loss is not genetically related?
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If your hair has not grown back after 4 1/2 years, then I do not believe that it will grow. Yes, chemical damage can injure your hair roots or the scalp itself, leading to possible permanent hair loss. You may try Rogaine. If you are a male, then I recommend Propecia also. Keep in mind that there is no substitute for a good doctor giving you a real diagnosis in person so that you KNOW what you have and what the prospects are for you.
african american 40 yr old female. I have thin hair with approx 1 inch of traction alopecia around my hairline. Tiny visible thin hairs are present on the hairline, had little growth over five year period but they don’t seem to grow long or thicker. please help. I can’t afford a transplant. will it ever grow back since hair is present? a dermatologist told me it may grow.
Other than hair transplants or possibly a hairline lowering procedure, there is not much that can be offered to you. These types of surgeries will cost possibly around $10,000. I can’t be more specific on pricing averages without seeing you first. Wigs of varying types are often the solution used for many women in your situation.
Hello Doctor,
I have personally seen someone being benifitted by this exercise where hair color has turned from gray to black!
Everyday, rubbing your nails against each other for 10 minutes in morning and evening… (after you do it for 10 mins, you will get the feeling of your blood getting circulated. it means you’ve done your exercise right…). This exercise can be done while traveling in train, bus, wherever. It’s a YOGA exercise and turns hair from gray to black. Some say it can stop hair loss too. Just thought of sharing it. Nothing like if it helps someone concerned with the problem. It takes 3-6 months to show results.
Stress reducing activities are known to reduce hair loss. I am not familiar with reversal of hair loss or return of original hair color, but I love the idea of using Yoga to reduce stress (one of the leading causes of accelerating hair loss).
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You mentioned that:
“If you were to stop the Rogaine (minoxidil) and there was a benefit of it, you will go back to your ‘before’ status, plus losing whatever hair you would have lost prior to starting the medication. This may very well leave you worse off.”What do you mean by worse off? Wouldn’t you just be where you would be if you had never started the minoxidil? Do you just mean psychologically, because you’d have to deal with all of the hairloss all at once upon discontinuing the minoxidil, rather than seeing it’s slow natural/drug-free progression?
I’m having a hard time deciding whether to start applying 5% minoxidil 1x/day, as my derm prescribed. (I’m 26, female, triggered AGA/TE from birth control pills).
Thank you!
Would you just be where you would be had you never started the minoxidil? — YES.
Would you have to deal with all of the hair loss at once upon discontinuing the minoxidil? — YES.
You sound like an intelligent person. The old saying, “Try it, you might like it”, may apply for you. If you start it and then do not see a benefit of it in up to 6 months, then you can probably stop it without too much risk.
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Does Proscar/Finasteride degrade if split and left in a jar for a number of weeks? Is it ok to split several pills at once and take them over a number of weeks or will they lose effectiveness?
When you split a pill, the inside is then explosed to environmental factors like humidity. I would not split the pill prior to use.
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Hello doc!
Firstly, thank you for a good blog, and what can I say about the NHI site except, outstanding. As a webdesigner myself I really know what Im talking about.Now, over to my question. I’ve seen a new product online, it’s a “helmet” that attacks the hair roots with some kind of magnetic fields? Anyway, this product feel smells “scam” from far..
- Do you know about this product?
- Could Saw-palmetto (or what the heck it’s called) be used in treating of hairloss?
- What about the “new study” about coffein and hairloss, know anything about it?
- I guess I’m a northwood 2, what is the best product for me to start with?
- When I was visiting Asia recently I saw a rogaine-copy with 5% Minoxidil for around $3 per bottle. This product was sold in a pharmacy. I can say that $3 is “much money” in this country and the production of this rogaine-clone is, as far as I understand, produced within this “Don’t-give-a-damn-about-us-law” – country.
Thank you! I wish you many healthy years.
Thanks for your kind words about the NHI site.
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