Are people just balding but at an acceptable rate ? Does everyone have a “halting point” at which their hairline will stay for a period if you let it get there? Does everyone have different strips of hair that will go at random speeds?
Just look at friends and family and you will know it is REAL! I actually learn at airports about the various ethnic hairlines which I study and sometimes ask permission to photograph
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I think because of better social media, we are more aware of balding today and we are sharing the problem with others. I don’t believe that we moved the needle on balding
Here is a Class 7 patient that I followed from his early balding to his extreme balding. I stopped it with multiple hair transplant procedures over 26 years: https://baldingblog.com/norwood-class-7-pattern-patient-received-11000-grafts-plus-smp/ You should make the judgment if this is a combover!
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(female) I was in a car accident a year ago and have been suffering neck pain since. I also have noticed in about the last 5 months severe itchy scalp and some hair thining. I noticed the loss by my forehead at first but within the last month noticed that I can put my hair in a small clamp. I never have been able to do that before. Also I have noticed some hearing loss, could this all be related? Thank you
Neck pain is not related to hair loss. Itchy scalp is not related to hair loss. Hearing loss is not related to hair loss. Itchy scalp with neck pain and hearing loss in any combination are not related to hair loss.
You may just have a lot of separate medical issues going on that needs to be followed by a doctor. Hair loss can be a result of stress (physical or mental), which you may have.
2006-10-24 09:33:072006-10-24 13:16:53Are Neck Pain, Hearing Loss, and Itchy Scalp Related to Hair Loss?
I know what’s the difference between two cases? DHT miniaturised and non-DHT miniaturesed? What else causes miniaturisation except DHT?
Yes, hair transplants are permanent. Yesterday, I saw two patients that came in who had hair transplants in 1994 with me. Both said that they would have been bald, had they not had a hair transplant. One man had a full head of hair in the front (from the transplants but was losing his crown hair, the second guy had lost much of his native hair and wanted it thicker. So, even guys in their 60s (both men were in their early 60s) want more hair to look younger.
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Hey Dr Rassman
First of all I would just like to recognize all the the individuals who help make this site what it is. Its great. I love it! To be honest it distracts me at school a lot. I keep saying to myself, okay read one more post and thats it! But now for the serious part. I’m just wondering about the progress which is being made in the development of new drugs for male pattern baldness. I know you are probably getting sick of these questions, but are companies researching the working mechanisms of the approved drugs minoxidil and finasteride and building off what they already know?Also, who is the youngest person that you have performed surgery on, not including young children with burns, but with male pattern balding and if so what do these results look like? I am also pleased to say that I will be scheduling a visit with you in May to meet with you….. I’m very excited as I am from Canada and have never been to LA before. I hope it lives up to the hype!
I don’t know much about new drugs in the drug pipeline of the pharmaceutical companies, but as I do find out anything I try to post it on this site quickly. Sometimes I get emails from people alerting me to medications in the pipeline that I hadn’t heard of before. Contrary to popular belief, I’m not a drug insider that knows timelines on when medications are coming to market. Treating hair loss is a billion dollar business, so while I don’t know this to be 100% the case, it would make sense that some drug companies are working on the next possible medication to regrow hair.
In the treatment of male pattern baldness, I made a mistake once by taking on a 17 year old patient with strictly frontal balding. He had a very fast moving hair loss progression and eventually went on to a Norwood class 7 pattern. This was around 1993, years before Propecia was on the market and it was early in my hair career. Today, I generally wait for:
I look forward to meeting with you. Los Angeles is a great city and I am sure you will enjoy it if you gave yourself enough time for touring.
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A good hair transplant surgeon will transplant all ethnic hair types. Only the African hair type requires special skills because it is not straight below the skin as the hair on top of the head is curly. For African men, we use special tools for FUE or STRIP surgeries; whichever they decide is appropriate for them.
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I have lived my whole life without sideburns as I have never been able to grow them. Are sideburn transplants an option? Are they at all common where a doctor would be comfortable doing one? I would also be interested to know if you’ve done any and if there were any problems.
Thanks.
Also, any photos you have of clients before and after a sideburn transplant would be appreciated.
Yes, sideburn transplants are commonly done by experienced hair transplant surgeons. We actually do this procedure on more women than men, because many women who have facelifts lose their sideburns and often have scars that need to be hidden with the transplants.
You can see some excellent photos in our hair restoration gallery.
(It should go without saying, but the photo at right of Elvis Presley is meant to show sideburns, not to suggest that he had transplants.)
Hey Doc,
What do you make of the clinical study from TRX2? Is this real? Can a company fake a clinical trial?
Link: TRX2 trial
Thanks
Anything can be faked, but I can’t say whether this is accurate or a proof of concept. Does anyone know if it was published in a peer reviewed medical journal?
Their reports of sales are impressive, but like the Helsinki Formula of the 1980s (which was among the first of the hair growth promoters), a successful marketing effort only proves that the company can sell the product… not that it works as advertised.
