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Hair at Age 10, Blonde Hairs on Temples Are Gone Now at Age 20 (Photo)

You need to see an expert doctor like me, who can do a HAIR CHECK test (https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/) on you to determine if you are going to go bald. This is a lot of recession in someone 20 years of age. Who do you take after in your family line? Blondes are the BEST candidates for hair transplants, but at your age, I would be hesitant to recommend it. You should absolutely be on the drug finasteride if you want to keep your hair. I find that blondes are the best hair transplant candidates because of the low contrast between hair and skin color. If hair is important to you, you will look at my comments seriously.


2019-09-12 12:25:49Hair at Age 10, Blonde Hairs on Temples Are Gone Now at Age 20 (Photo)

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Tight Hat and Hair Loss?

Will wearing a hat all day, (approx. 11 hours) every other day create thinning of the hair? Always have been curious. I wear hats…at least 3-4 times a week, all day. Wondering if the tight cap is bad for the head? Hmmmm. Thanks so much!

You do a fabulous job!

We have answered this many times and it is outlined as well as one of the many myths in our Hair Loss and Replacement for Dummies book.

The answer is NO. A hat doesn’t cause hair loss.

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What Do We Do with Hair Cure Breakthroughs (from Reddit)

Thanks for the article. One important comment in the article is: “Also, as with all scientific research on hair regeneration, there are a lot of unknowns and there is no easy way to tell whether a particular research will be brought to fruition or not. The same goes for PTD-DBM hair regeneration.” What this is saying is: don’t count on any short-term answers. Because of articles with positive mouse testing and human skin on mouse studies that are successful, too many people think that the cure for balding is at hand. I have seen this same “story” told over the past 25 years, and still, no cure is available.

For most young men losing hair, the problem is now, not sometime in the future. They want solutions that work now, and these solutions are limited to Minoxidil and Finasteride or hair transplantation.

Korean scientists breakthrough in hair regeneration targeting CXXC5 protein and WNT Signaling Pathway from tressless


2018-06-26 13:42:47What Do We Do with Hair Cure Breakthroughs (from Reddit)

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Tomatoes and Hair Loss

Have you ever heard of tomato consumption causing hair loss?

TomatoNo, I have never heard that before.

Here are some interesting facts about tomatoes that I’ll repost from Epersimmons.com:

  1. Tomatoes originated in the South American Andes. They were cherry sized and grew wild. The tomato was once considered an aphrodisiac, and in fact the word tomato in Italian is poma amoris or “love apple”.
  2. It’s hard to believe that this main ingredient of our diet was not that long ago considered poisonous, by Americans. We have Robert Gibbon Johnson to thank for saving the tomato. In 1820, he stood on the steps of a New Jersey courthouse and ate a tomato, proving they were harmless. Thank you Robert, after all where would we be without ketchup for our french fries.
  3. Today, far from being poisonous it is considered one of the most healthy vegetables around. And yes, I did say vegetable. In 1893, the Supreme Court ruled that tomatoes are vegetables and not fruits.
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Hair Gel and Hair Loss

You responded to a post saying “good commercial” hair gel does not cause hair loss. Ok, what about cheap ones? And what is your conclusion based on, can you provide me with any studies supporting this position? How has this “myth” survived for so long, other than how most do in general – stated differently, what do proponents of this accusation base their claims on and why are they wrong?

Thanks in advance

OK, you got me on language and meanings. “Good and cheap” commercial hair gel should not cause hair loss. Otherwise they would be sued and go out of business or possibly go into a hair removal business. There is no medical study I am aware of to support my claim — it is just my opinion. I never knew there was a myth about gel and hair loss. I use gel everyday, as do millions of people.

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Hair Implanter Carousel (with Videos)

I have heard alot about the Implanter Carousel which i find very interesting and a great method of preserving the hairs and keeping them moist in the ‘carousel’ unlike the choi implanter were the hairs are left on a tray open to drying with warm air until they are put into the implanter. If you dont mind me asking, was the choi implanter an influence with its design and was the carousel, put simply, designed to better the disadvantages of the choi implanter. As they are an automated method of implanting the hair would that not take remove the artistry of a manual job. You once said on a answer to a blog on the subject of ‘The choi implanter’, ‘The Choi implanter is just a surgical tool. It makes some aspects of the transplant easier to perform, especially for those people who did not develop the difficult placing skills with the more traditional transplant tools used throughout the world. An instrument is only as good as the person using it, so I can not package the tool with the technique. The Choi generally requires ‘skinny’ grafts, which tend to dry out more easily, therefore, this instrument requires special skills, different than those that do not have to make the grafts skinny’. My question is how is the carousel different in the sense that an automated implanter such as the choi implanter makes some aspects of the transplant easier to perform, especially for those people who did not develop the difficult placing skills. Thank you, for all your advise.

It sounds like you know all the technical difficulties associated with follicular unit transplantation — are you a hair transplant surgeon?

As you mentioned, I wrote about the Choi Implanter before — What is the Choi Implanter?. There’s nothing else I can really add to that. The Hair Implanter Carousel was patented back in the 1990s and it works distinctly different from the Choi Implanter. It was designed to take advantage of a ‘machine gun’ approach to loading the grafts for implantation and percutaneous use and keeping them moist (as you wrote). I’ve used both and found the Carousel to be much easier than the Choi. The drying of the grafts was not a problem for the Carousel as it was for the Choi. Unfortunately, the instrument manufacturer was unable to produce a consistently high quality product and we ended up in court trying to get my money back for the build out of the Carousel, rather than getting the tool into the transplant surgeons’ hands.

A paper about the Carousel was published in 1998 and three videos of the instrument can be seen below:

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Hair Loss After Craniotomy

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Previously someone mentioned she had had surgery and was losing hair. The reply was something about stress and medications, and a predispostion to balding. My question is how long does the stress and medications phase last? There does not appear to be a predispostion to balding to any of us in the family. I had a craniotomy 2 months ago and I now have a bald spot in the middle of my head about the size of four quarters. It seems to want to grow and then bends and breaks off. Now what? The reply also stated to see a Dr., but what kind? I have asked my neurologist and my PCP – neither has seen this before and the only response I get is “I think it will grow back.” Not an answer, if they haven’t seen this before. Would a dermatologist work? (I also have what looks like dandruff that attaches itself to the hair. But I can actually hear it when it hits the sink (I take a comb to it occassionally to help remove it.).)

Thank You

Hair loss in random patches about the size of a quarter sounds like alopecia areata that can be precipitated by surgery or stress. Also included in the differential diagnosis is telogen effluvium (see article). Your description and condition sounds a bit more complicated than just that, though. You had a craniotomy and there are other issues (things falling from your scalp that makes a sound when hitting the sink?!). I would definitely see a dermatologist.


2008-09-10 15:29:20Hair Loss After Craniotomy

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Transected grafts placed for counting (photo)

Almost all of the grafts collected by this surgical team was either transected or mutilated. It was surprising that the team was proud of them enough to publish this photo. Significantly less than half of these hair will survive the transplant. Is this a brargain?


2021-01-18 10:39:59Transected grafts placed for counting (photo)