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Mapping Your Own Scalp for Miniaturization — The Video!

As promised, I’ve uploaded a tutorial video for the miniaturization mapping. You can find the thread with the video at BaldingForum. I encourage you to sign up at the forum to post any questions you might have about the video or the process, as well as posting your miniaturization results if you’d like me to analyze them.

See the video at BaldingForum.com!

 

If you missed the first 2 parts, be sure to read up!

  1. Mapping Your Own Scalp for Miniaturization, Part 1
  2. Mapping Your Own Scalp for Miniaturization, Part 2


2008-11-21 10:32:03Mapping Your Own Scalp for Miniaturization — The Video!

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Are blood DHT levels important before taking finasteride

Hey, so I’m planning to get a DHT test to check out the levels before starting finasteride. I’m wondering whether it is the amount of DHT or the sensitivity that matters when it comes to balding or other effects? Basically is it a waste of money to measure DHT levels if they don’t correlate with anything?

I personally think that it is not worth doing. What you want to know is: will the drug work for me? Changing drug blood levels doesn’t tell you that information

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Masturbation and Hair Transplants

i had a fue some week ago, and i masturbated already the day of my fue (4-5 hours after hairtransplant).No sex and no strange masturbation, only normal masturbation , many times. The same the day 2-3-4….Now, i read there isn’t a univocal opinion about masturbation after hairtranplant for the blood pressure. But can really a simple masturbation raises blood pressure enough to be dangerous for the grafts? isn’t unrealistic?why do some doctors say that? I still haven’t understood your opinion on this topic, because i read that sometimes you told that masturbation is safe also immediately after HT, sometimes i read you told it is safe after 1-2 days after ht and ,then, i didn’t understand what you mean when you tell ” masturbation is safe within a day of having fue”.Within a day means “after 24 hours” or ” immediately after hairtransplant”? So i ask : normal masturbation few hours later hairtransplant is safe or not? I didn’t bleed from my head.Thak you and i’m sorry to bother you.

Masturbation or sex after a hair transplant is fine. We all have our needs and they must be met. You will not damage the grafts.

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Are Plucked Hairs Treated with ACell Expected to Grow After 3 Months?

Hi Dr Rassman, I wondered how your trials using ACell and autocloning are? How many patients have you enrolled? How large are the session sizes? Are you transplanting 100-200 hairs or more? Also do these plucked hairs treated with ACell behave as normal transplanted hairs i.e. they shed and begin growing after 3 months? Thanks.

ANSWER:
The ACell study that we conducted at NHI some years ago consisted of about 30 volunteers. These patients received approximately 100 plucked hairs. Since the study started we never saw any growth so we stopped doing this experimental treatment.

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Maximum Number of Transplanted Hairs

HI DOC, what is the average number grafts a person has to transplant from the donor area???

This is a difficult question, because it depends upon donor denity and donor laxity (assuming the strip method of harvesting). On average, I would suspect that the total number of transplantable hairs is between 15,000 – 20,000 assuming an average density and average laxity. Those with high density and laxity may push these numbers to double (30,000-45,000 hairs). I gave this answer in hairs not grafts, so based upon an average of two hairs per follicular unit, that number may be half in grafts.

If the FUE technique is perfected, then this number might change, but without more clinical experience, I could not answer this part of the question as the technique changes.

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Arm Hair Grew in Very Thick After Removing Cast

Hey Doc,

I broke my arm 2 years ago and had a cast for 4 months. After removing the cast, I noticed that the hair on my arms were REALLY thick and sprouted all over the place. It was kind of scary, but after about 2 months all the hair returned to normal.

Can you explain what caused this? I have always been curious.

Many people that are required to wear a cast see what you’ve reported. This occurs because the arm hair which sheds frequently as the short hair cycle pushes out old hair (a half to one inch in length) is protected in the cast so that it does not fall out day be day. Most people with normal bathing and showers will get these old hairs to fall out by a simple scrub.


2006-12-05 11:40:57Arm Hair Grew in Very Thick After Removing Cast

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Melancor

Hey Dr. Rassman;
Concerning the subject of graying hair…I have look at about everything the internet has to offer on what causes it, and how to stop it, even reverse it. I would like to hear your take on the subject if I may. Do you know anything about Melancor or is it another “snake oil”? And what’s up with gray chest hair?….mine is 3 times as long, seems twice as thick and curlier than my dark brown chest hair. Why is that so? What is taking place here?
Always thankful for you time!

I know very little about Melancor, but based upon your question, I did research it. The claims appear to me as marketing hype without documented scientific evidence to back up claims of safety or effectiveness that satisfy my scientific mind. That concerns me. The substance is in a pill form and that concerns me even more. I would doubt that this passes FDA or FCC standards and without safety studies, I would not want to risk my health taking an unproven medication.

With regard to your long chest hairs, I can only tell you that this is exactly what I see on my hairy chest. At least there are two observant people watching their chest hair grow far too long for their particular likes.

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MEP-90 Laser and FDA Clearance

I know you guys know about the MEP-90 laser and its manufacturer MidwestRF, I was looking around on the internet and I found something rather interesting.I found a page that goes somewhat in depth about the methodology as to how the MEP-90 received its clearance.

Apparently the MEP-90 study wasn’t double blinded and the the only explanation that the report gave was this: “However, a sham/placebo study is not applicable to the long term required treatment of female androgenic alopecia because too many variations exist that would make it unfeasible to run a large number of experiments and it would constitute unethical treatment of the subjects.”

Interesting considering that the Hairmax lasercomb recently recently received clearance for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia in females by use of a double blinded study. This report also stated that Midwest RF has been manufacturing hair lasers since 1999 but all records I could find indicate that the only thing they manufactured were MRI components. It’s also interesting to note that for some reason this company received stimulus funds why I have no idea. Here is a link to the report: here.

tell me what you or someone familiar with clinical trials thinks about it.

I generally do not trust clinical studies that are not double blinded, or have researchers with something to gain from the results. Most studies in the low level light area have failed to prove that there is a scientific result that is clearly positive.

I’m not a laser expert by any means, so I’ll defer to our readers that have more experience with this.

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Poor Growth at 7 Months, Will PRP Help?

It seems that you are concerned about growth. At seven months, you still might expect to see more growth. I always tell my patients that at eight months you should see 80% of the growth to styling length. I doubt that this is going to happen, but you should wait another month or two. PRP will not make hair transplants grow. Only excellent surgery gets results. Depending on how many grafts you received, you might question this. If you don’t see an improvement in another two or three months, go back and have a conversation with your surgeon.