Author: Dr. William Rassman

Sir does xrays causes telogen effluvium, or accelerates hair fall in patients with male pattern baldness?

X-ray is a type of electromagnetic radiation that is all around us. It falls between the ultraviolet light and gamma rays in the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. A certain amount of X-rays is all around us so your question depends on the amount of x-ray radiation one receives or the location of where the x-ray is being received.

I would guess that you would need a ridiculous amount of x-rays delivered to your scalp to start worrying about hair loss. At that point hair loss would probably be the last of your concerns as you are dying from radiation poisoning. (I’m being facetious.) Cancer patients receiving radiation to their brain can develop local hair loss (but that’s not x-rays).

A simple chest x-ray, CT scan, or airport security should be insignificant in terms of hair loss.

This is probably the first time I write, please follow up with your physicist.

Of interesting note: “Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: January 30, 1915”

X-rays were used for medical operations within a couple of months after they were discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen in late 1895.

This is a good and important question. People who have early miniaturized hairs can pull them out with rough combing or brushing. When you brush, use a coarse hair brush with wide spacing so you don’t pull on your hair.

Combing too hard? from tressless

Here is a hairline I repaired and created a Brad Pitt hairline in one surgery: https://baldingblog.com/repair-of-hairline-transplants-photos/ We do this all of the time, see here: https://newhair.com/before-and-after/hair-transplants-men/#results

Yes, there is far more patchiness than I would expect to see. This was caused either by donor over-harvesting or vascular complications of the donor area which may reverse within 6 months of the surgery, so by that time you will know more. I also noticed that the grafts were harvested very high and also too low, probably outside the permanent zone. If you should develop any advanced balding, these grafts may not be permanent. The donor area is usually no more than 3 inches high (see here: https://baldingblog.com/2017/08/04/permanent-zone-hair-lasts-lifetime/). If the patchiness remains, then you might consider scalp micropigmentation, something we do all of the time, see website: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/

Thinking about a hair transplant, but I have some doubts about terminology: what is the difference between a graft, a follicle and a hair?

Hairs are the product of the body and is created in the manufacturing apparatus called a hair follicle. Hair follicles grow in groups and each group is called a follicular unit (often called grafts when moved in hair transplants).

Can You Harvest 5000 Grafts At Once? I Just Want One Surgery. I don’t want to come back for another surgery.

If you are familiar with New Hair Institute and Dr. Rassman’s (founder) work, he is the doctor who started the “Mega-Session” 3000+ grafts hair transplants back in in 1995

Yes, it will take a lot of grafts but the beard can be significantly made fuller

In an issue of Scientific American, a young 10 year-old boy was knocked unconscious one day by a baseball. After the accident, he could recall the “exact day of the week for any date after the accident and could remember the weather for each day since the trauma”… along with “minute daily events”. Another example of a victim of a brutal mugging in 2002. He began seeing images and was able to sketch them on paper. His images reflected ‘fractals‘ a mathematical repeating pattern. This is called an “acquired savant Syndrome”, a near genius level of brain function that appeared after the injury. This syndrome can appear after a blow to the head or some brain insult.

Many of the affected people can develop the ability to create poetry, paint or play a musical instrument where there was never a talent for this before. Some researchers and experts in the field think that there is a ‘genius’ switch in the brain and are looking for ways to be able to turn it on. I want to volunteer for this type of experimentation. I wish I could knock this type of ‘brains’ into the crazy people in this world who just don’t get the basic value of life and would rather make war than appreciate all of the beauty on this planet for the short time we will be here.