You are correct to wait until you are older to be sure where your balding pattern will show up so you will know what you are in store for. Your family history might indicate where your balding may be going. Look at your brothers, uncles, father and grandparents on both sides of the family to see what they hair loss pattern is/was, Usually by the age of 25, you will know and you can then build a Master Plan with your doctor.
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None of this year’s major Oscar nominees are from Chicago, but some of the losers may be making the trip here post-awards show. No, not to film a new movie, but rather to get hair transplants.
This year, the notoriously extravagant gift bags for Oscars losers include a voucher for Chicago surgeon Dr. William Yates’ hair restoration procedure. Dr. Yates says he is one of the few surgeons in the United States who performs the procedure using the new-age equipment known as ARTAS, and he wants to share the love.
Read the rest — Oscar Nominees’ Gift Bags Include Free Hair Transplants In Chicago
It’s award season, so companies are giving away everything from organic pet shampoo and hair transplant surgery to Las Vegas and Japan travel vacations. For those curious, the full list of free stuff is here.
Note: The annual meeting of hair surgeons was in held in Alaska this past week. The following review is very selective and is biased by the things that were interesting to me and what I (Dr. Rassman) thought could be interesting to the readers.
This is part 4. More to come…
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Which is better: FUE or FUT (strip)?
The debate followed this foreboding case study with the following insights:
FUE and ethnicity
Also of note — it seems that the incidence of balding in the Indian population of India is much higher (62%) in men between the ages of 21-61 years old, than in the Caucasian population from comparable studies done in other countries. The use of finasteride was found to be in the 1% range for these men, while the use of various snake oils seemed to dominate the treatments of many Indian men.
I’ve got much more to post, so check back next week for topics on finasteride, the Artas® FUE robot system, and minoxidil.
Hey doc, how’s it going? I’ve stumbled across this article on MSNBC.
I don’t want to get my hopes up too high, but the identification of a gene linked to hair loss sounds like an important discovery. What’s your take on it?
I had many people send me that MSNBC article yesterday, and my take on this is the following —
I think it is great that a possible hair loss gene may have been identified, but that does not necessarily solve the problem of genetic balding in the short term. It will help focus the research on the mechanism that have heretofore not been well understood. It is a step in the right direction, for sure. I’m looking forward to seeing where this discovery will take us.
Other articles about this can be found here:
Nice comment and congrats. Many women with hair loss are not good surgical candidates, but it seems that you were. I would caution many women reading this post to be careful when considering a hair transplant, for hair loss in the female is not like male hair loss.
2019-12-17 04:00:472019-12-17 08:24:51Female Has Hair Transplant a Year Ago and Very Happy with Results
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THE HIGH Court has awarded €70,000 damages to a sales and marketing manager over a botched hair transplant which left him disfigured.
Mr Justice John Quirke made the award to Niall Clancy (32), Scholarstown Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin, over the procedure which was carried out in the UK on January 12th, 2004.
The award included €30,000 general damages plus €40,000 for medical expenses to repair the damage.
Mr Justice Quirke also said Dr Maurice Collins, the surgeon who treated Mr Clancy after the transplant, had given him “very poor advice†not to have reconstructive surgery until after the court case was completed.
Read the full article at Irish Times – Man wins €70,000 damages over botched hair transplant
The online currency converter tells me that’s over $99,000 (USD)! I’ve not seen the botched work, but when the doctor told the patient to not have the repair work done until after the case was settled (which took years), it just added to the money the patient was awarded in damages. It is unfortunate that the transplant was so disfiguring, but without seeing photos I’ll have to rely on this article and the court’s decision for my source of case information.
Always remember to do your research on the clinic and physician before getting yourself into a permanent procedure like this. Perhaps this disfiguring hair transplant could’ve been avoided. See:
Yes, I am concerned. 2000 grafts is about 25% (possibly more) of your entire donor supply used for just the frontal ½ inch of hairline. The doctor should have known better, so yes I am critical of the decision the two of you made. What is your Personalized Master Plan if you should develop advanced balding as this man did: https://baldingblog.com/need-master-plan-think-hair-transplants-photos/. Note that he wasn’t very bald at 22 but evolved into a bald man. I don’t want to panic you, but you need to think this through as you would be this man shown as he aged. Balding is progressive in 100% of men.
2020-04-03 03:56:152020-01-30 08:58:3322 years old 2000 graft hair transplant, any thoughts? (photo)
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When patients present with hair loss, dermatologists should focus most heavily on patient histories, according to an expert who spoke at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Many dermatologists perform a cursory exam and order a battery of blood tests, says Leonard Sperling, M.D., chairman and professor of dermatology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md. Dermatologists often dread these encounters, he adds, because they can burn daylight and often reveal problems that can’t be treated successfully.
Read the rest — Patient history is key when assessing hair loss
Few dermatologists use the modern tools for assessing hair loss (hand microscope to map for miniaturization and the HairCheck device for measuring hair bulk). Most dermatologists don’t like to do hair assessments if they can not tell if a patient is balding or not.
A good example was in a 17 year old that came in to see me last week. I had seen him a year ago at the age of 16 where I did the HairCheck bulk analysis. His family history is significant as his father is a Norwood class 7 patient and two of his three brothers are also balding. One year ago, his bulk analysis showed 55% loss of hair in the front and 30% loss on the top. The crown showed no hair loss. On the visit last week, bulk measurements showed that his hair loss in the front increased to 75% and on the top it increased to 60%. Most significant was his hair loss in the crown, which was 50% of his bulk.
His hair was black, his skin was white, and the hair was medium-coarse, so that to the naked eye he showed only frontal hair loss. I already know that he will probably be a class 7 pattern balding patient like his dad. Without these instruments, I would not have seen any hair loss last year if I had not measured it, but even a year ago, it was evident that he was balding. Last week, we knew what pattern of balding he will probably be developing. He was placed on Propecia 1 year ago, but it did not stop his hair loss. He took the news well and we spent some time discussing a future Master Plan on what he might want to do as his hair loss becomes more evident. Shaving his head once he gets into college might be an option (with or without SMP).
This is a common finding in some women, although it is more common as women get older. I have treated many of these women with a hair transplant to put back the rounded hairlines typical of the female hairline. You should be look at my an expert to make sure that you don’t have an autoimmune disease like Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia. a diagnosis that is easy to make when your doctor is skilled in the examination of a female hairline
2019-11-01 04:38:142019-05-10 12:38:4324 year old female with corner hair loss and some hairline early elevation
Snippet from the article:
Singer Robbie Williams has revealed he had a hair transplant despite not needing one.
The 39-year-old made the admission while chatting about how living in Los Angeles had rubbed off on him during an interview on The Graham Norton Show, which airs on Friday evening.
He said: ‘I’ve lived in LA for a long time and they say, ‘If you sit in a barber’s shop for long enough you will get a hair cut.’ Well, if you live in Los Angeles for long enough you’re going to get some surgery.
Read the rest — Robbie Williams reveals he had a hair transplant despite not needing it after succumbing to LA lifestyle
Nobody really needs a hair transplant (it is an elective cosmetic procedure), but it looks like his hairline corners were going back a little before the surgery and are now filled in. Either way…
2013-12-03 09:02:162013-12-02 10:34:33In the News – Singer Robbie Williams Had a Hair Transplant But Didn’t Need One?
