Hair is important to young men, actually to all men. A hair system is instant hair and it works for some people. The freedom to have someone run their fingers through the hair is a limiting factor that can be managed. Good for you!
Shower thought: Wearing a hair system for the last 4 months has made me sad from tressless
2018-07-10 05:26:192018-07-19 05:51:25A Hair System Made This Young Man’s Life Better (From Reddit)
I went to a hair transplant facility the other day and had a consultation. Most of the time I was there was spent with a salesman. Is this usual? Do they generally get a commission of I sign up.
Your question is a good one. Unfortunately, many doctors in this field do use salesmen as communicators for their patient interactions. Although I have never done this, I do understand the huge costs involved in patient education and communication. The salesmen do perform that role well, but in the ending part of the question, you raised the most important issue, the one which defines whose interests are being weighed during the consultation process. The laws of all states generally forbid the payment of commissions to ‘communicators’, but I have no doubt that most salesmen have incentives to sell the hair transplant process. The doctor, on the other hand, is sworn by oath to put your needs ahead of his financial interests. There is clearly a conflict between selling you the transplant and watching out for your needs. You might judge the doctor by how much of his time you are worth.
2005-05-02 09:37:342005-05-02 09:38:20Hair Salesman
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Just read a recent post regarding someone who notices his hair thickens and thins and thickens again. I’ve noticed that for years and just assumed it was from Rogaine. That it was either synch shedding which happened after first using the drug and just continued through the years or that at times realized I’ve been missing areas and after reapplying those areas came back. But again that was Rogaine not Propecia which the previous post was on. Wonder if other minox users noticed this.
After reading your reply made me wonder if TE tends to reoccur in people. It would make sense if it is in response to a stress. People who have physical ailments in response to stress tend to have the same physical responses repeat throughout their life. I wouldn’t be surprised if some people are predisposed to TE under stress. Just as some develop IBS that comes and goes.. acid reflux.. back pain.. IF TE happened once it will probably happen again under stress.
Thanks for your comments. I’m posting this to hopefully get other readers to share their experience with back and forth shedding from minoxidil, as you describe.
To put this all together, a good relationship with a doctor is a good idea. Yes, telogen effluvium can reoccur in some people. See eMedicine for more info.
A little over a year of being on 1mg finasteride pills and using 5% minoxidil once daily. Not much hairline progress since my last update, but my hair has thickened significantly. Extremely happy with these results.
It has thickened because you took finasteride and minoxidil and probably reversed the miniaturization that might have progressed to hair loss. Nice!
2021-10-08 01:17:362021-03-19 21:19:47Hair thickened over 1 year
I’m 23 and it’s happening. I’ve always had a poor hairline but now it’s thinning. And quickly (6 months and it’s gotten worse). Money is no object. Are these crappy hairpieces or are they indiscernible from the real deal? Do you shave the rest of your head for them? How do they work? How do you clean them? I want to do it early enough with my current hairstyle so no one can tell. I’m not keen on the medication or rolling.
Be aware that hair systems need to be attached, so most use glues to hold them to your shaved scalp. This causes traction alopecia and more hair loss so most men who make the switch to hair system end up on them for life as their hair loss always gets worse, often from the hair systems themselves.
2021-07-15 01:47:232021-01-23 10:48:38Hair Systems at 23
How fussy do you have to be with placement of it though? If you have a hair system or only applying in certain spots you can’t be too consistent?
You have to be fussy! If you apply the hair system, make sure that the clips are never in the same place or you will end up with traction alopecia.
2021-01-13 02:21:492021-01-14 09:58:25Hair Systems and how to avoid hair loss from them
Hair transplants work very well when you are balding. I had hair transplants for my crown, and no one knows unless I told them. I performed hair transplants on 6 relatives, including my wife and daughter-in-law, and they were all happy with them. There is a balance between your concerns about balding and your sense of need to do something about it. Hair transplants are not for everyone. Even though I invented the FUE, I still perform half of our hair transplants with strip surgery, often in older men or men who are going to develop an advanced balding pattern. The decision to do an FUE vs FUT is a personal decision for each patient.
Can you explain more about the hair weight? You’re saying patient ones hair weighs more, and is 4 times thicker than patient twos thin/fine hair, which weighs 1/4 of first patient? Do I have that right? Is hair weight the same as hair volume?
How many grafts have each of those patients had? Both had the same amount of grafts?
Then how come every time someone gets a hair transplant they’re asked how many grafts they got? If 1,000 grafts on patient one could equal 4,000 grafts on another patient, the number of grafts doesn’t mean much without also knowing hair thickness/volume numbers as well. Do I have this correct?
Last question lol, when someone has fine hair being 1/4 the weight of average, do they usually have 4x the number of grafts in their donor area? So thick hair will have 4,000 total donor and fine hair can have 16,000 donor grafts?
Thank you I’m advance! This is a subject I’ve rarely seen talked about. It’s always ONLY how many grafts.
Think of this as building a fence. You have three types of wood 1×1″, 2×2″ and 4×4″. If you built the fence with 4×4 it would be a better fence than with 1×1, Four 1×1 = a singe 2×2 and four 2×2 equals a single 4×4. This is essentially comparable to fine, medium and coarse hair. Although the ratios are not the same a fine hair is 30 microns, a medium hair is 60 microns and a coarse hair is 90-100 microns, the metaphor does apply.
If this doesn’t explain it, please reply.
2020-09-04 08:44:432020-09-04 12:22:26Importance of hair shaft thickness
I’m 23 years old, male. I was concerned about my thinning hair and my forehead is also very high. I was wondering if my forehead could be lowered along with hair transplant in one session and also a general estimate of what it might cost. Could the surgery be financed?
Another concern that I have is whether my transplant area and donor area would be red and swollen for various number of days. How many days are we talking about here? Since I am a college student I am concerned if people will be able to tell I had a hair transplant surgery after I come home from the procedure. Will the transplanted hair and the hair from donor area shed very badly and leave me looking like I have thinner hair than I used to and how much pain should I expect?
Thanks for addressing my concerns.
Thinning hair in a 23 year old man is usually caused by genetic balding. You should see a good doctor to have your hair mapped for miniaturization and have your hair bulk analyzed to be sure that you have genetic balding. If this is the case, then the use of medications like Propecia will be critical to stopping or slowing the balding process from progressing.
The redness after a surgery depends on two factors — the color of your skin (white skin is more likely to turn red), and the general way your body reacts to a wound (scratch your forehead with your fingernail and then wait 5 minutes to see if it turns red). If and when you become a candidate for a hair transplant by presenting with a clear balding pattern, then you can at the time of the transplant, lower your hairline. Costs vary depending upon what has to be done. Financing is available.
When estimating the number of grafts a person needs, I always want to know the hair thickness (hair bulk) of the donor area. Hair bulk is not hair or graft density. I initially saw the graphic at the bottom of this post on Reddit.com. For a visual representation, the graphic artist kept the number of hairs the same and changed the thickness of the hair shafts to show the value of hair thickness in producing coverage. Dr. Sharon Keene nicely demonstrated this with real hairs and got the same result as the graphic demo below. So you see, if your hair is fine, it will take a lot more hair to get the fullness of a person with medium-weight or coarse hair. This is why people with fine hair often get a second hair transplant. Fine hair is clearly better than no hair, but when a person with fine hair gets a hair transplant, they should accept that they will never have the look of Brad Pitt’s hair, while a person with thicker hair shafts, a Brad Pitt expectation may be realistic. The chart below shows the value of thicker hair shafts very nicely.
Let’s drill down on an example: Look at the chart below; let’s suppose that a balding man has medium hair (50microns thick). His friend had a hair transplant and had fine hair in his donor area, with a hair thickness of 30 microns. His friend had a hair transplant, and it doesn’t look like he has a full head of hair after the transplant despite getting 4000 grafts. He is concerned that he might not be happy with the type of results his friend had. If he does the analysis, he will find that he has 7.1 times the hair bulk as his friend with fine hair whose donor hair thickness had 30-micron hair shafts (50/0.7 = 7.1). I would tell him that if I were his surgeon, he would get much fuller-looking results than his friend, not because I am a better surgeon than his friend’s surgeon but because his hair thickness will produce more hair bulk than his friend’s fine hair gave him. The amount of hair bulk is a simple math calculation reflecting the area of a circle [ Pie (r)² ]. If you want to run the calculations, you will know the value of your hair thickness, and everyone having a hair transplant should do this to establish realistic expectations.
In my 35 years performing hair transplants, I have transplanted many men with fine hair. They were generally pleased because they got back the hair they always had, which was fine hair. A fine-haired man getting a hair transplant for balding doesn’t have the expectation that his hair would look like Antonio Banderas’s hair because they never had it.
In the late 1980’s. Dr. Manny Marritt had a light-skinned Caucasian human volunteer with black, medium-weight hair (~50-micron hair thickness) agree to have half the hairs on one side of his head plucked out. Then, Dr. Marritt brought in independent observers and photographers to see if the lower-density side could be detected. The answer was NO! That told me that in the worst situation possible (black, medium-weight hair on white skin), 50% density produced the same fullness as 100% density. With that being the case, a person with medium-weight hair that is blonde with a blondish skin color or a brown-haired, brown-skin colored man would require less than 50% of their original density to get a full look from a hair transplant. I have found that to be true, and that is the art of what a good hair transplant surgeon offers. When the hair transplant surgeon combines this knowledge with proper hair distribution, the best results are produced with the least amount of hair and cost to the patient.
For those readers who want to know where they stand about hair thickness, to get some realistic expectations for a hair transplant, you can purchase a micrometer for under $25 on Amazon, cut 10 of your donor area (back of your head), and measure the thickness by averaging their width of those 10 hairs. Use the chart below to understand the measurement and consider Dr. Marritt’s simple experiment. The micrometer can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09964YBMF?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1
The illustrations below show the same number of hairs, but the hairs are thicker. Please note the HUGE visual difference between fine, medium, and coarse hairs regarding the fullness each group produces.
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