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I Didn’t Know Weaves and Wigs Would Make My Traction Alopecia Worse! – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

I’m a 38 yr old black female. My hair started thinning in the crown about 10 yrs ago. I started braiding it to keep out the chemicals. About 3 1/2 years ago I was diagnosed with traction alopecia. Had never heard of it before. I started wearing weaves and wigs to cover up the ugliness. I never realized that this would make my situation worse. Now the balding has spread to the top and front of my head. Is it too late for a hair transplant that would work. The hair on the sides and back is relatively thick, but it seems so unhealthy. At the rate I’m going I feel like I should just shave my head bald and call it a day. I feel so ugly. I did see a dermatogolist for the diagnosis, but I never got any advise on what I should do to help the situation. Can you recommend anyone to see on this side of the country??

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If you are diagnosed with traction alopecia, you need to keep your hair short with no weaves and wigs. After stopping the insult, you should wait for at least six months and see if your hair regrows. In many cases, traction alopecia may cause permanent damage to the hair follicle and may not reversible. Repeating the evaluation of your hair after this period of time will show the areas of permanent hair loss. At that point, a hair transplant specialist can evaluate you for further treatment options if the hair failed to grow back. Then, if you are using a wig, be sure that it is converted to clips to prevent the transplants from developing traction alopecia.

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Considering BioMatrix at Hair Club – Balding Blog

I visited doctor Rassman for a consultation on two occasions: the first time was about 6 years ago, the second time about three years later. On both visits Dr. Rassman advised against transplant surgery because of limited donor hair. I appreciated his honesty and have adhered to his advice.

I recently visited the Hair Club in LA. I am considering their biomatrix procedure. I would appreciate any advice you could give me. Thank you

I did write about the Bio Matrix before, but I am still not too familiar with it, so it would be unfair for me to give you solid advice. You were kind enough to come into my Open House on February 3rd to ask me this question after you already submitted it to the BaldingBlog. It was a pleasure meeting you. Your examination showed you have Diffuse Unpatterned Alopecia (DUPA), and based on the Hair Club’s website, the Bio Matrix product appears to be interwoven with your own hair or placed on a bald head (the actual picture they used was man with frontal balding). If they actually weave it into the existing hair, I feel it may actually make you balder from traction. Be very careful with any product that could pull on your hair and deplete your current good hair supply.




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Why Does Propecia Take Months to Show Benefits? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Doctor,

You have the best website by a mile! I have a couple of unrelated questions:

1) Why does Propecia take 8-12 months to show hair regrowth ?
2) Any comments on hair club for men’s biomatrix process (which is advertised on their website). I believe it is a hoax but wanted to confirm.

Thanks

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Thank you for your compliment!

  1. It takes months 6-12 months for finasteride (Propecia) to show its effectiveness, because it is dependent on the hair growth cycle which takes about that long just to ‘switch gears’. Then hair grows at 1/2 inch per month.
  2. I believe Hair Club’s Biomatrix is a type of wig applied with a special process. Sometimes it is difficult to tell what it is that is being sold.

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Hair Loss InformationWhy Do All Young Hollywood Actors Have Great Hairlines? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Hi!

Do you think that it is common that young and famous persons take propecia prior to any experience of hairloss?

The reason for my question is that I am so astonished that rather young people in hollywood (say between 20-40 years), all seem to have a full head of hair! I cannot even come up with almost any names of young actors with an obvious receding hairline (as they get older), except Jude Law!

If they do not use propecia, how could this kind of luck of a full head of hair even excist, when balding is such a common problem amongst “ordinary people”??

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There is no difference between vulnerability of Hollywood actors to keeping hair and the normal population. If there was, I would imagine all balding men would be taking acting lessons to get the positive benefits of that profession. I think that those men blessed with good hair have better opportunities for acting than balding young men. Once they make it, they do what they need to maintain good hair. That might include wigs, transplants, or Propecia.

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Female Hair Systems in the UK? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Dear Dr Rassman,
Your blog site is very interesting and I came upon it by chance.

I’m a customer of Farrell systems and was wondering where else I can buy as good a unit with that natural front. Can you direct me to another similar company, preferably in the UK? It seem hard to find systems as natural, am I right?

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I am sorry, but I am in California and my network to wig makers in the UK does not extend to the one-on-one associations I have here. If there are any suggestions from those that are reading this, please feel free to post a comment. Thanks.

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Hair Loss InformationMatthew McConaughey’s Hairline… Revealed? – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

I knew his hair looked too perfect for it to be real. I mean even a hair transplant wouldn’t bring back ALL your hair you had back when you were your teens. And Matt seemed to get ALL his hair back in such a short amount of time. So, it is safe to say matt is wearing a gold old hair peice. Matts hair looked to perfect for it to be his. If everybody could get hair like his through a transplants (assuming he had some work done), everybody would be getting a hair transplant and you would be on of the richest men in America. LOL. Am I correct? I am not saying transplants don’t work but I have seen people with hair transplants and they just don’t seem to cover up a whole lot. That is why so many people are probably just shaving their heads because they know you have to keep on spending a lot of money on transplants to get your so called “desired look” and even then there are still balding spots that are visible. And don’t get me started about propecia. I think it is honestly BS. E-mail me and let me know what you think. Please, post this on your web-site. The pictures at least.

Article at – PerezHilton.com

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Matthew McConaugheySince this site’s first blog post on Matthew McConaughey, we seem to be taken up with all of the focus on his hairline. I am not into sensationalism, even though I have elected to share what has been sent to me. I do respect a person’s need for privacy, yet there seems to be no let-up on the probing about Mr. McConaughey’s hairline. Many women think that McConaughey is the best looking man in Hollywood and one would ask if that opinion would persist if his hairline was kept ‘au natural’. Some members of our culture do judge the book by its cover.

One of the local doctors here in the Los Angeles area let the word out that he had done McConaughey’s hair transplant. Was it because McConaughey has done such a good job at presenting the perfect hairline image? I even commented privately to my staff that the claim that this doctor did McConaughey’s ‘transplanted’ hairline could be believed because work of great quality is often done by the best hair transplant surgeons in the business.

Based upon the photographs at the link the blog reader sent, then compared to our first posting about this, there appears to be no change in McConaughey’s hairline from the mugshot taken in 1999. It would be in poor taste and a violation of the patient’s rights to even admit to performing the surgery without the express permission of the patient — not to mention that it would be outright fraudulent for any doctor to take credit for a stylist’s apparent hairpiece.

Update, Sept 29 2006: Another reader just sent this article that has apparently more recent photos of Matthew McConaughey, where his hairline can be seen (for those that are interested) — Splash News Online.

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Hair Loss InformationHigh End Wigs – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

I did recently hear about a company that offered “high-end” wigs attached by some kind of inverted preasure. Do you know anything about this?

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I do not know what you are referencing here. There is one company that offers ‘high end wigs’ for a starting fee of $50,000. They use small clips to attach the hair system to the hair that is still there, one by one. There is a great deal of maintenance as the hair grows, the attached artificial hair must be advanced one by one to the growing hair to make up for the growth. If you want a referral to this high end wig maker and can afford $50,000, call my office. This company has offices in Beverly Hills, New York and Paris, although I do not recommend them as a rule.

If you send me more information on the ‘inverted pressure’ attachment system, I will give you an opinion.

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Problem with Wig Leads to Heart Attack – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Sounds like a hairpiece can be stressful, in more ways than just worrying about it falling off. Here’s an interesting case of man that felt he was wronged by a wig maker, and it ended up causing him much more emotional and physical distress than a wig is worth.

Milford man counter-sues in hairpiece lawsuit

A city man claims in a lawsuit seeking more than $15,000 in damages that he suffered a heart attack after refusing to pay for a hairpiece that was not only the wrong size but also the wrong color.

Paul Lewis filed the counter suit in Superior Court after Paula’s Wig Boutique in Orange filed a small claims action seeking $1,200 in payment for the hairpiece.

Lewis says in the lawsuit that he suffered a heart attack in December 2004 after Paula Wood, the owner of the Boston Post Road wig shop, threatened to call police because he refused to pay, court records state.

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You can read the rest of the article at Connecticut Post Online.

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I’ve Worn a Hair System for 14 Years – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

I am a 55 year old, white male with normal crown baldness. I have been wearing a hair system for the last 14 years. Could hair transplantation work for me and what would be the estimated cost?

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See Patient ZU for a good example of a man that wore a hair system for 30 years. He was transplanted and has a wonderful result. The costs depends upon how bald you are. Send me photographs and I will give you some starting points and an estimate.

For more photos of Patient ZU, please click here.