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Man Regrew a Fingertip, Why Can’t We Regrow Hair?

Dr. Rassman,
Sorry that I write you all the time. Have you read the news about the man who regrew his whole finger tip using a drug called ACell which vets use on pets. Why couldn’t this be used on humans to regrow our original DHT resistant donor supply after it is transplanted. My request might be a little far fetched but I believe someone is willing to be your guinea pig for an experiment like this. Thanks for everything you do.

I did a Google search on the subject and found this article from the Associated Press and posted to FOX News last year —Scientists Regrow Human Fingers. However, I don’t know any more than you do by reading such an article. There is no breakthrough that I can surround from the medical releases. Everything is experimental. The photos in that article showed the pulp of the finger on the palm side is what regrew. This is not a regrown finger like the examples that they gave on salamanders that grew limbs.

Like you, I read this material with great anticipation that someday we will see such breakthroughs available to us all, but I couldn’t say when that might happen. Note that the focus is not on hair, but rather on body parts and spinal injuries. That will become the first and second application that will be approved… not hair.

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Anybody on fin long term & had good hair improvement?

I just had a36-year-old man visit me in my office. He has been on finasteride for 10 years and tells me that this drug has increased his sex drive very heavily ever since he started it.


2020-04-19 08:53:14Anybody on fin long term & had good hair improvement?

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Are ALL Steroids Bad? What About Prescribed Topical Corticosteroids?

In your July 21st blog entry, you clearly mention that all steroids are bad – both for your body and toward precipitating hair loss. However, specifically what about topical corticosteroids, such as Luxiq? Last year, my dermatologist diagnosed me with seborrheic dermatitis on my scalp and proscribed me Luxiq to take pretty much indefinitely. Could this drug worsen my hair loss? I’m very concerned that I may be doing something that is speeding up my rate of hair loss! Please respond.

Steroids cause hair loss. I personally do not recommend daily or twice daily use of steroids for seborrheic dermatitis. Occasional use one or two treatments a week may not impact hair loss but it should be used sparingly.

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Masturbating Causes My Hair Loss and Boils on My Head

Dr,
I am 26 & experiencing severe dandruff ,itching on skull,hair fall after masturbation.I have small boils on my head after masturbation which automatically go away if I don’t masturbate for few days also is it normal for the skull specially the top part of my skull to remain hot after masturbation(this is where I am having hair loss)?

The above mentioned problem is recurring & is specifically caused due to masturbation, reason: if I don’t masturbate for few days these problems don’t occur.Please help me with you valuable advise.

We’ve written about this many times. Simply put — masturbation does not cause hair loss. I do not know what other advice I can provide or how much clearer I can be.

If you strongly feel masturbation is causing your hair loss, then stop masturbating. I suppose at that point, it is your choice — you can choose hair versus masturbation. I have no idea how small boils could develop on your head after masturbating, then magically disappear when you’re leaving yourself alone. See a dermatologist about the boils (infections).


2012-09-20 14:13:00Masturbating Causes My Hair Loss and Boils on My Head

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Maturing hairline

Maturing hairline vs recessions: I believe that a “Maturing hairline” is the same as MPB receding hairline. Someone people just recede more slowly than others or have their hair loss isolated to their hairline.

That is not true. A maturing hairline is the normal evolution of a juvenile hairline that disappears in most Caucasian men between the ages of 18-29

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Are You Still Actively Researching?

Dr. Rassman,

Do you still actively conduct research, or do you feel like you’ve given all you have to offer to the hair loss world in terms of innovations such as the FUE procedure or other novel ways of approaching loss?

I strongly believe that the research is an inseparable part of the practice of medicine. Every physician should constantly seek better ways to do things. Hair restoration surgery has been progressing rapidly within the last few years, but there are still many questions to be answered. As a matter of fact, every new finding opens our horizon to many other questions and possibilities.

Here at New Hair Institute, we are actively pursuing several research projects. They are either to increase our general knowledge of hair loss or to improve our techniques and skills. We are also collaborating with nationally known research centers in some sophisticated researches on hair loss and potential treatment modalities for baldness. We will publish our results when they become available and may also release some of the findings on this site.

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Medium vs Medium Coarse Hair

Dear Docs,

is there any way to determine one’s hair shaft thickness (whether coarse or medium etc) without microscopic measurements? Some websites suggest that coarse hair needs more time to dry than normal, others claim that fine hair reflects more light and can’t be felt between thumb and index finger. Are these statements true? Sometimes I realize that even in my donor some hairs vary in colour and thickness, cant remember if this has always been the case. On top of that, whats the difference between medium and medium coarse?

Thanks

I suppose you can use a micrometer and caliper to measure the shaft diameter, but I wonder how this information will be helpful to you? If you have fine, medium, or coarse hair, that is just who you are. Hair can vary in thickness depending on what stage of the growth cycle they are in.

As for defining medium and medium coarse, it sounds pretty self-explanatory to me. Medium hair thickness is the middle of the spectrum, and medium coarse would be just between medium and coarse.