Author: Dr. William Rassman

I’ve been soaking and massaging twice a day per my doctor’s orders. I’m on day 5 now and quite a bit of scabbing has come off, but there’s still some left to go. I’m being gentle and no bleeding at all, so I’m just going to keep at it.

It is tricky to get scabs off at 5 days as the grafts get attached under the scabs so when the scabs come off, the grafts can be pulled out. The risk goes away at the 12th day. Read this article I wrote with Dr. Robert Bernstein: https://newhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mp-2006-graft-anchoring.pdf

This man took minoxidil, finasteride and used microneedling to improve the balding on his crown

This is a wonderful result from 4 months on finasteride + minoxidil with a return of the corner & center hairline shown in both after photos

The pictures speak for themselves

4 months on minoxidil and microneedling with good initial results. I will be curious on how long it will last. Are you going to stop doing the microneedling and just continue with the minoxidil? You should probably continue the microneedling at least a few times each year.

This 40-year-old male reversed his hairline recession with minoxidil 6%, 0.3% finasteride topical solution as well as microneedling. I suspect that without the microneedling, he would have had no response. Microneedling is a fantastic treatment for almost any age man with balding. The problem with microneedling is “Will it last” and if so, how long without continuing the process.

Some doctors just push numbers to make money when they do FUE grafting. I believe that this is such a case I picked up on the internet which shows some patient victimized by too many FUE grafts. The only options to treat this is with Scalp Micropigmentation, a tattoo for the donor area something we do all the time. Overharvesting to make money, is as immoral as a doctor can get. This was a woman who from the pictures, did not have much hair loss and fully 80% of women have miniaturization in the donor area which will absolutely cause this problem, This picture is one months following the FUE surgery and I suspect that there will be little growth and she will be bald in the back of her head.

What is interesting in this man with 4 months growth from finasteride and minoxidil is the length of these new hairs (about 1 inch is about right) for good early growth