For the answers, go here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tressless/comments/8csu0n/successful_regrowth_timeline/
Man in 20s had massive hair shed after a hair transplant (reader comments)
Well you should never have had a transplant that young especially with this much hair loss. Any good doctor would never do this because the potential for you to keep going bald is too high. In other words, you only have 6000-7000 transplantable grafts total. You may not have grafts to cover future loss later. The sad fact is the best age for a hair transplant is in the 30s. Now you may be faced with shaving your head and if you have fut, you will have a scar. It’s possible you can have scar revision if it’s bad. You can also have what’s basically a hair tattoo where they take a shaved head and place tiny dots to simulate hair follicles as well as hide the scar. You have other options but not everyone has the correct head or hair for a transplant.
I generally tell patients to get a HAIRCHECK test to find out what their pattern would be and to consider taking finasteride to prevent shock loss. I suspect this man was too young, never had a HAIRCHECK test and was not taking finasteride to prevent shock loss. He paid a very hefty price for his decision to do a hair transplant without adequate research.
Malpractice Information
I had a hair transplant that deformed me a number of years ago. I have been depressed and angry, hiding under a baseball hat much of the time. Now, I want to get back at the doctor and make him pay me for my suffering. He had no right to do this to me and had I know what I was getting, I would never had the surgery done. How does one find a lawyer to represent me in a malpractice case against the doctor?
This is a hard question for many reasons. First, you are angry and I understand the anger, but you did make the choice to have the procedure and must recognize your role in enabling the doctor, even though you feel that you were a victim. The old axiom, ‘buyer beware’ holds for anything you buy, even a hair transplant. I am not sanctioning what happened to you, for I have seen hundreds of men in your situation and I have great compassion for someone who wanted to take charge and improve their appearance, and find themselves going south when they wanted to go north. Unfortunately, the old procedures did not meet the standards of many people. Today’s surgery is much better and the standards are good enough to meet even the most critical buyer.
First, I must qualify my credentials by saying that I am not a lawyer, just a well informed doctor. Every State has a ‘Statute of Limitations’ which means that you must file an action within (usually) 2-3 years of the point when you realized you were damaged. I will assume that your surgery goes back to the old days when big plugs were done (10 + year ago). You can, of course, go back to the doctor who did the work and ask him to fix it. A good doctor should try to make things right, but with your degree of anger, you must first address your anger and try to determine just what you want to do about the problem that you are living with. Alternatives to a malpractice suit include: (a) Complaints to the State Medical Board (which in California are always investigated by representatives of the State Attorney General’s office), and (b) Complaints to the Better Business Bureau (this is a place that new patients will often go when checking out a doctor).
Focus on the positive! I generally tell patients who have had the older work to put together a priority list of things that bother them. The more that they are bothered, the higher on the list these complaints should be. If you direct your energies to fix your problem and make it right (overcome the problems) then you can go on with your life. I have written extensively on repairs for the older type of work (see Medical Publications) and have many examples of repairs done on our website (see: Repair Work Photo Gallery).
There are many problems with going the malpractice litigation route that you are asking about. I do know a little about the difficulty in a hair malpractice suit, as I have been an expert witness in the past. I am familiar with two cases that ‘succeeded’, one was settled for less than the cost to fix the work, and the second (poor outcome from scalp reductions) got one of the largest awards in California $140,000 (to be paid over 20 years). He took it all in cash up front (which meant that it was discounted to less than half) and he had to pay his lawyer. The patient ended up with less than $20,000 for himself. Considering the time and energy he put into it, it may have been a poor decision to go that route. The crime here was that he suffered a second time, living the nightmare in court activities for a number of years starting from the time he filed the case. Malpractice cases (particularly in the cosmetic hair business) rarely succeed. The problem for litigation is:
- The ‘Standard of Care’ is what the plaintiff must prove was not practiced. In the old days when plugs were the standard quality and although the standard was a ‘sub-standard’, litigation was rarely successful as the sub-standard was the standard that had to be met.
- Even if a surgical procedure fails to work, the ‘victim’ must prove that they were damaged by that failure. Assume that a modern hair transplant is done and it failed 100%, the question might be asked what was the damage? Other than the money, anger and the humiliation, there may be no damage that can be demonstrated.
- Juries have been less than sympathetic to the balding man’s plight. The patient starts from an ‘underdog’ position and any anger he has (particularly with no real evident and obvious damage) the less sympathetic may be the jury. Remember, the jurors really want to be home, on vacation or someplace other than listening to a bald man’s problems.
- Jury decisions in hair transplantation malpractice cases have not produced the larger monetary awards that make it worth the the lawyers’ time. As such, the lawyers are generally reluctant to take them on.
The burden must therefore be on the patient to do his homework, to find a reputable doctor who is known for his good work and whose past performance that can be verified. Becoming a victim today with all of the information on the internet, and the open house events at offices like ours, make it easier for today’s transplant candidate to practice by what is suggested in the phrase “Buyer Bewareâ€. With the power of information at his command today, such problems can and should be avoided.
I am male and I want to lower my hairline. Should I have a hairline lowering procedure?
For men, my concern is in the potential balding that may occur in your future as most balding starts in young men and is progressive so it advances with age until the mid-thirties or even later. If that happened to you (your risk) then you will have to get a hair transplant to cover it as the frontal area is the place where genetic balding starts in most men. If you are under 24, you may become a set-up for hairline recession so that if you lower the hairline with an advancement surgery, hair loss that will occur behind the scar. If you develop balding, it will require a hair transplant to keep up with the recession and the scar from the advancement will show. A hairline advancement procedure is not the best option for a male but a hair transplant lowering procedure allows you to follow the recession back if and when it should occur.
2017-01-17 11:58:062017-01-17 12:00:24I am male and I want to lower my hairline. Should I have a hairline lowering procedure?
Male Using Straighteners, Seeing Hair Loss
You’re reading the 3000th post here on BaldingBlog, which is quite remarkable for a site less than 2 years old. Thanks to the readers out there for the continued support!
Hi, I am 22, male and have been using hair straighteners for roughly a full year now. i have seen a decline in hair and hair thinning occur over the past 3 months. I am very concerned as i am soo young and not married and have already experienced hair loss, most likely due to traction alopecia. I am so styling my hair in this way and i hate to change and stop using my straighteners, but if my hair will grow back to its natural healthy and thick form it was in before i began using the straightening irons i will. So, if experienced significant hair lost by using straightening irons for one year, will my hair stop falling out and grow? And, will the hair that has fallen out be replaced? i know you have had similar questions, but most have been from females and i know alot of males that use such products and are having the same hair loss & thinning problem. we need to know if our hair will grow! PLEASE
Traction alopecia could be reversible if diagnosed early. If you are predisposed to male pattern baldness due to your genetic background, traction or any other type of trauma to your hair may have accelerated your approaching male pattern baldness. Occurrence of hair loss can be hastened by trauma. A visit to a hair specialist can help to determine whether your hair loss is an accelerated male pattern or purely traction alopecia. You should have your scalp mapped out for miniaturization to determine if you actually have genetic patterned hair loss. In either case, you need to stop what you are doing with your hair and let the hair follicles that are still alive grow new hair.
Male Sperm Count Drops 58% in 38 Years
Over the past 38 years, the sperm count measured at Mt. Sinai Hospital and elsewhere has dropped 58%. Dr. Swan reported this alarming statistic on the BBC. She believes that this change must be due to environmental factor such as plastics and other chemicals which are now in our bodies. In addition to the number of sperm produced per cc of ejaculate, the quality of the sperm is also down as more and more embryos are developing with congenital problems which are now being identified in the offspring of our children. Dr. Swan believes that these changes are probably permanent and correction might take a few generations to correct.
2021-03-05 02:55:022021-02-26 18:02:35Male Sperm Count Drops 58% in 38 Years
One of my big questions is, can you get Male Pattern Balding without having a family history of it?
No, male pattern balding is genetic but it can skip many generations. You might not identify who you got it from if the person you inherited it from is not known to you. We often do not know our great grandparents. I recently saw my great, great grandfather’s pictures from the late 1800s and he had a full head of hair.
2017-09-16 07:00:522017-09-16 14:41:37One of my big questions is, can you get Male Pattern Balding without having a family history of it?
Male Losing Pubic Hair
Dear Sir,
im 26 years old male but have been loosing my pubic hair and my head hair at a very bad rate since i was 16 years old. now at the age of 26 its getting obvious that you can see my scalp and my pubic hair has thinned as well. I had very very thick hair. other parts of my body like my chest hair seem to be dropping, but not as bad. When I shower or just run my hands through the pubic hair it just drops at least more then 10 strands sometimes, and my head hair is the same, dropping all the time. I have taken a blood test and waiting for results, what else should I do, can you please advice thank you. im desperate for help.
Head hair loss has been addressed extensively in this blog, almost every day. With regard to pubic hair and body hair, I would like to know what medications you might be taking. The problem with internet advice is that it is one sided, question to me (alone, often without supporting information) and no real opportunity for me to probe further for info. I often tell medical students that the best doctors can make 90% of the diagnosis without ever laying a hand on a patient — by just taking a good and careful history. My interest in helping people is why I became a doctor. Unfortunately, I won’t able to be much help here without knowing more first. Without two way communication, I can not take a careful history, which is why a visit to a good doctor’s office is what the practice of medicine is all about.
2006-08-29 14:35:072006-08-29 11:15:26Male Losing Pubic Hair
Male gets female hairline in Turkey
When untrained people do hair transplant surgery, besides risking the lives of the patients, the things that are simple for me, a skilled hair transplant surgeon, is not understood by people who haven’t been trained in the field. From my intelligence in the field, Turkey has hundreds of clinics staffed without a skilled surgeon doing the surgery. Some clinics have a doctor who ‘fronts’ for the marketing operation but doesn’t know anything about doing a hair transplant. Here is a picture of an unfortunate young man who saw a bargain and purchased a hair transplant in Turkey. What he got it, was a female hairline that goes down to the temple peaks on the side. I doubt that he wanted to have the hairline of a woman, but now he will have other problems once it grows.. The arrow points to where the temple peaks (now buried in the rounded female hairline) should be prominent.
Male to Female (MTF) Male Wants to Take Estrogen to Reverse Hair Loss (From Reddit)
Estrogen usually slows down balding and can stop it if you address your testosterone chemically or otherwise. I do hair transplants for MTF patients frequently to create a truly feminine hairline.
I am mtf trans, and I am currently taking min and fin. Soon to be starting estrogen, can anyone chime in? It’s regarding the new evidence that E can regrow hair… from tressless
2018-09-21 04:55:472018-09-24 06:26:26Male to Female (MTF) Male Wants to Take Estrogen to Reverse Hair Loss (From Reddit)