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Traction Alopecia in Sikh Men is Common (from Reddit)

The use of your turban with the pulling that is created from the tight wrap is the most likely cause of the hair loss. If the loss has been there for more than 8 months, it is probably permanent and the only good treatment is a hair transplant. We see this commonly in Sikh men and have treated this successfully with hair transplants many times.

Male, 19, Sikh… formerly had long hair, suffering from Traction Alopecia and created an account specially just to post on here and take your guys’ opinion on what should I do regarding this. Feel free to recommend anything although I think minoxidil would greatly help me. from tressless


2020-01-07 07:31:50Traction Alopecia in Sikh Men is Common (from Reddit)

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Hair Loss and Body Heat

Body HeatI am wondering if the areas on the head which lose hair first in Male Pattern Hair Loss are the areas of the head which naturally release the most body heat (e.g. the temples/crown). Is there more blood flow near the skin surface in these areas?

Great thought, but no. Your hair loss pattern is genetic and it really has nothing to do with blood flow. If you lost hair and became bald (let’s say in the crown) then any hair loss will probably occur in the hairy area where the blood supply is more robust.

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Transplant Hair From Chest to Eyebrows?

Im Indian. Have half black and half grey hair. My eyebrows are thin. So if i want to transplant a few from my chest / scalp to the eyebrows. Can a surgeon make sure that only the black hair is transplanted? I mean i would not want my eyebrows to be grey in color.

This is the sort of question that requires a patient to prioritize. Which is more important? Having hair in your eyebrows or having it the right color? Bear in mind that coloring your hair, whether on one’s eyebrows or somewhere else, is a cheap and easy process. Transplanting hair is not. One last thought is that your eyebrows may one day change color (ie they may become gray) on their own! That would really be a pickle…

As a side note, I want to address the suggestion of chest hair for your eyebrows in the first place (I know you also mentioned scalp – I just want to address this for other readers of the blog). FYI, often the texture and character of chest hair make it less than suitable for transplantation, even if it does grow slightly shorter than the hair on one’s head. You would have to be examined by your surgeon to determine where the best donor area is, and that may be your chest, but I would simply suggest that you enter the appointment focused on getting the most natural and best results possible.

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Hair Loss in My Crown After I Had a Frontal Hair Transplant (Photo)

I have been developing hair loss in my crown after I had a frontal hair transplant 9 months ago. Why is this happening to me?

Hair loss is a progressive process, so hair loss in men is not unusual after having a hair transplant. It can accelerate the hair loss process that is destined to happen anyway. Your hair loss is unique because it appears to be in the nape of the neck, unless that area was involved in the donor area work. Go back and see your doctor and consider taking medications like Finasteride.


2018-06-22 09:14:04Hair Loss in My Crown After I Had a Frontal Hair Transplant (Photo)

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Transplanted V-shaped hairline (photo)

This type of transplanted hairline is not normal. I am not sure what either the doctor was thinking when he gave this man this hairline or if the patient approved or asked for it specifically. This fortunately, can be fixed.


2020-08-23 16:14:22Transplanted V-shaped hairline (photo)

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Hair Loss from Hair Coloring

Hello
About 4 months ago I had some red/copper low lights put in my hair. Within about a week I developed several hives/blisters on my head, the worst of which was towards the back of my head where 3/4 seemed clustered together. About 3-4 weeks after this my hair fell out from that particular area (about 3-4 cms across). I’ve been to my GP who wasn’t very helpful and said it may or may not be an allergic reaction, and she did not know why the hair had fallen out. It’s now 4 months later and I appear to have some regrowth but it’s like baby hair, very fine and short. I can feel it with my finger but it doesn’t cover the bald spot as I have very dark brown hair. Will my hair return in time, and what process does it take? Is it normal that the hair appears like baby hair? It may be an impossible one to answer, but roughly how long before the bald spot is covered and looking like my other hair?

I notice that most sites suggests hair grows on average 1/2 inch per month. Is this growth rate the same for hair that has fallen out and is growing back? I’m desperately looking every month for signs of 1/2 inch growth but wondered if the rate was slower/quicker for brand new hair. Thanks

This is a tough hair loss question not only because it is tough for you to go through, but also because it is difficult to diagnose without an exam. You need to see a dermatologist or a hair loss specialist (but definitely an MD) so they can look at the spots with hair loss on your head. The reason is that the hair loss pattern and sequence that you describe could have been caused by many things including 1) a chemical alopecia (reaction to the chemicals used on your head) 2) an allergic reaction, 3) an infection of the skin on the scalp (by anything from a bacterial, fungal, or a viral source), or even 4) Alopecia Areata. Often, only a physical examination by a doctor and testing (sometimes including a scalp biopsy for microscopic analysis) will determine the cause.

The good news is that in most all the cases I have listed, the hair does grow back although it is impossible to predict how long it will take without a definitive diagnosis. In the meantime, see your dermatologist or hair doctor, stay away from the chemicals for hair, and take a photo to document for yourself how the growth is going.


2006-04-14 08:36:22Hair Loss from Hair Coloring

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Transplanting Hair from One Eyebrow to the Other?

Several years ago, after waxing my eyebrows twice monthly, I decided to get electrolysis to shape them permanently. Now older and wiser, I realized that I took off too much on the ends and I am considering an eyebrow transplant. However, the remaining eyebrow is extremely thick, so I was wondering if you could so an eyebrow transplant using this excess eyebrow hair?

There are two issues here:

  1. Theoretically, you can transplant eyebrow hair from one eyebrow to the other, but it may produce unwanted hair loss and/or scarring in that area (even by using the FUE technique). And if you can harvest the excess eyebrow hair, it may not always grow. This in the end may leave you scarred and looking worse. I’m not trying to scare you from looking into this more, but it is a potential risk that you need to understand.
  2. You can have your scalp hair transplanted to your eyebrow with good results, but no doctor can reproduce the exact look of your original eyebrow… no matter how good the doctor says he/she is.


2009-07-23 09:25:58Transplanting Hair from One Eyebrow to the Other?

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Hair Loss from Straightener?

(female) Can you permanently lose some of your hair if you straighten your hair too much with a straightener? If so, is there a home remedy or a cheap way to grow it all back?

You can permanently damage the hair with chemicals and it is not uncommon when people continuously straighten their hair and experiment with the chemicals used for this. The 2nd part of your question is a little ridiculous to me — if there was really a magic formula to grow back all of your hair (and cheap, too), I highly doubt we’d see half of the population with some form of hair loss. In other words, no.


2007-10-10 11:32:08Hair Loss from Straightener?

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Transplanting the Frontal Corner, 6 Months Post-Op (with Photos)

See the dramatic change in just one session to the right frontal hairline of this celebrity (nameless of course). His hair is brown and medium fine thickness with dense packing of the grafts just behind the hairline. Please note that the hairline is not an actual line, and there is a transition zone that takes you from forehead to the thicker hair so that this does not look like a transplanted hairline. That is where the ‘art’ comes into play. When looking at the densitometer (magnified view of the scalp hair), I can see that there is still new hair just starting to grow from the scalp so that in another 2 months or so, he should show even greater fullness than he shows here. I placed about 500 follicular units in this corner.

The photo on the left is before, the two photos on the right is after 6 months. Click the photos to enlarge.


2007-04-20 10:40:53Transplanting the Frontal Corner, 6 Months Post-Op (with Photos)

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Hair Loss in Young Teen Male

Dear Doctor,
I have this very close friend who is 15 years old. He is suffering from hair loss and has been since about the age of 11. I’ve talked to him about it many times and he says that the amount of hair he loses after showers is unbelievable. Even when he runs his fingers through his hair strands come out. I really would like to do what I can to help him, he has trouble talking to people so I’m basically the only one who can help. He also gets made fun of at school sometimes and no one likes to be teased. I’ve read up on different causes of hair loss but nothing really is directed to younger teens. Please help me help him.

Young men as young as 13 can have genetic hair loss. He needs to see a good doctor, get his hair and scalp mapped out for miniaturization and find out if he is genetically balding. Assuming it is genetic hair loss, then the drug that is best to hold on to his hair is Propecia. He must get help and get proper management; the price of premature balding is too grave a consequence for denying the problem.