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Have you had patients get a hair transplant while recovering from surgery? I’m having surgery on my shoulder soon and was thinking about taking advantage of the time off work to get a transplant? Not sure if this would be too much for my body.

Obviously I know my doc will have the final say. However just wanted to ask here prior to asking him, as my next appointment isn’t for a few weeks and he’s a while away

Many of my patients who have had orthopedic surgeries will do a hair transplant during the recovery period because they have the time to do it then.

Every surgery causes scarring. In a hair transplant, there are two types of scars: (1) the strip scar which is a linear scar from an incision in the back of your head, and (2) an FUE scar which is very small punctate scars less than 1mm each. Most young men we perform a hair transplant on want FUE because they don’t want a “line” scar. I had three hair transplants with an incision (strip) method and no one can find my scars. Each time I had the procedure, the previous scar was removed. I happen to also be a very good healer. If any doctor tells you that his surgery will not produce a scar, he is not telling you the truth and may only be trying to tell you a bill of goods. Take a look at this video:https://youtu.be/koPZdjdO4Ng

Do transplants cause scars? from tressless

Dr. Paco Jimenez identified the eccrine gland in the upper part of the hair follicle. We discussed that when the surgeon creates chubby grafts in a hair transplant, the eccrine gland is included in the grafts, but when the grafts are very skinny, or stripped of their capsule as with some FUE grafts, this gland probably is not included in the graft. We have seen that chubby grafts produce the best long-term results, and skinny grafts may possibly be responsible for grafts that don’t continue to grow through many growth cycles. This is all speculation at this time, but Dr. Jimenez believes that he will hone down further on the value of the eccrine gland in the near future.

I have always believed that chubby grafts are better than skinny grafts and my results of seeing long-term growth has been very good. I also believe that chubby grafts reduce the risk of dehydration of the grafts during the hair transplant process. Dehydration of the grafts is the major cause of graft loss during a hair transplant surgery.

A typical female hairline is rounded and the leading edge should have a no-hairline hairline. This means that the transition zone should be built between your forehead and your thicker hairline so that there is no beginning of the hairline that looks like a ‘line’. Your picture on the left should be compared with a hair transplanted no-hairline hairline on the right below. Note the rounded soft nature of the hairline on the right which was completely transplanted, including the temple peaks and an advancement of the middle hairline about one inch, while the photo on the left is straight enough to draw a line connecting the hairs. I would build a transition zone with hair transplants to soften the abrupt hairline that is shown.

Drug increases stiffness of infected erythrocytes, favouring their elimination from the blood circulation and reducing transmission to mosquitoes.

“French and British researchers have found a potential further use for sildenafil citrate, the active agent in Viagra. This could help prevent transmission of the mature malaria parasite from humans to mosquitoes. The study has been published in “PLOS One”.”……

The scientists thus sought to stiffen the infected erythrocytes such that the derformed red blood cells which are infected by the parasite may be picked up by the spleen of the human and destroyed. This is an interesting development possibly for those traveling to infected malaria areas, but that may be a stretch on my part.

Hairline after 7 months of minox from tressless

I have heard that too much vitamin A can cause hair loss, is this true? My multi-vitamin contains 100%DV and I recently found out that a medium sweet potato has over 400%DV. There are other items in my diet as well with small amounts of vitamin A.

Too much of a good thing can be bad, and yes, getting too much Vitamin A can produce hair loss. But, I doubt natural foods such as sweet potato can cause you to lose your hair, nor any ordinary supplements with Vitamin A in it.