Author: Dr. William Rassman

If you try filling in FUE scars with more hair transplants from the thigh, body, or neck, you will be subject to the limitations of these donor sites. The neck hair is not permanent hair. Additionally, all body hair below the neck has a short growth cycle, and only half of the hairs will be growing at any one time. Filling in FUE scars can be very expensive and not very effective. In my opinion, SMP is the best option.

Using a tooth brush to get rid of the crusts is a bad idea as it may actually pull out the grafts. Place the shampoo on your head, leave it there for 10 minutes, and then using your fingertips, gently rub the grafts. Repeat this twice a day until the crusts come off easily but do not be rough about this?

Hats have nothing to do with hair loss for men – it is just purely genetics.

If my hairline is receeding, should I stop wearing caps? from tressless

Toppik works well after a hair transplant while it is growing in. It should never be used while the crusts are still on the recipient site, which usually takes 1-3 weeks to be washed off, depending how aggressively you wash your hair.

Using Toppik 3 months after my Hair Transplant? from tressless

 

Follicular Unit Excision (new name) was pioneered by me in the mid to late 1990s. I published the first article in the world on this surgery in 2002. This is a great surgery if the surgeon knows how to do it. Fortunately today, there are many surgeons who have mastered it; however, there is a limit as to how many grafts a person can have with FUE without developing a see-through donor area. I have published the answer to this on my website here: https://newhair.com/resources/#tab-id-4

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.

Yes, a Vitamin D Deficiency can cause hair loss. When it is corrected, you may not see a reversal of the hair loss if there is a genetic component to it. Women often have complex hair loss problems, so careful evaluation is critical before drawing conclusions to the cause of hair loss, which is often not so simple as taking Vitamin D.

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