Thinking about a hair transplant, but I have some doubts about terminology: what is the difference between a graft, a follicle and a hair?
Hairs are the product of the body and is created in the manufacturing apparatus called a hair follicle. Hair follicles grow in groups and each group is called a follicular unit (often called grafts when moved in hair transplants).
Snippet from the article:
Cancer death rates in the U.S. have dropped 20 percent in the past two decades, thanks largely to less smoking, increased prevention and better detection, a new report finds.
The rates have fallen dramatically in some areas — plunging 50 percent for middle-aged black men, for instance — while barely budging for elderly white women. And disease experts say there’s still plenty of room for improvement.
“Contained within this data are areas of remarkable progress and areas that remain frustrating,†said Dr. Clifford A. Hudis, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and a chief expert in breast cancer at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
An estimated 1.7 million new cancer cases are projected for 2014, including some 586,000 deaths, according to the new report from the American Cancer Society. And cancer remains the second-most common cause of death in the U.S., behind heart disease.
Read the rest — Slow but steady: Cancer death rates drop 20 percent in two decades
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Cancer patients will routinely be offered genetic tests to help determine the best treatment, under plans being developed at an NHS hospital.
The technique looks for dangerous mutations on 100 genes covering many types of cancer, meaning one simple test could be suitable for most patients. Women with cancers of the breast and ovaries will be the first to benefit at the Royal Marsden Hospital, before the test is expanded to other cancers.
Within three years doctors aim to have a system in place that could be used by almost anyone with cancer anywhere in the country, at a cost of a few hundred pounds.
Read the rest — Fast gene test for cancer patients
The findings come from a meta-analysis of 302 clinical trials with 262,354 participants enrolled between 1994 and 2015. The median age of these participants was 6.49 years younger (P < .001) than the median age of real-world patients with the same cancers in a federal database. That’s a “substantial difference,” the authors comment. (Taken from Medscape)
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I just got back from the 17th annual scientific ISHRS meeting (basically a hair transplant doctor’s convention), which went on from July 22-26. Lots of information was presented… lots of lectures, presentations, and discussions. This year’s meeting was in Amsterdam, so I had quite a long flight back to California when it was all over and I was able to do a write up on the plane of what I learned. I thought I’d share…
If you missed yesterday’s post, check out part 1 of my ISHRS meeting notes! Here’s part 2…
Hair transplant failures:
Hair transplant failures are often due to undiagnosed scarring (cicatricial) alopecias, so the need to detect them is critically important in advance of the procedure. The skin is often white and shiny and their activity may be in spurts, active at some times and inactive at other times. In my opinion and from my experience, women suffer more undiagnosed scarring alopecias than men and reflecting abnormal patterns of balding may be a clue to their presence. The doctor usually makes the diagnosis when these abnormal balding patterns appear and then the doctor will take multiple skin biopsies in the identified areas. Biopsies are the traditional approach, but the tissues that are taken for biopsy must have some active disease going on to affirm a diagnosis. When the biopsy approach to diagnosis is made, they are made with sizable tools (usually a series of 4 mm punches along the edge of the abnormal balding pattern). Alternatively, test transplants (which are limited procedures) can be done to see if growth occurs at 6-8 months. I have been performing test transplants over the years in such suspicious cases, as this is a more certain way of making the anticipation of success or failure of a traditional hair transplant. Failures of transplants in patients with such scarring alopecias are common.
Hairline design:
This is an area that I find most interesting. My philosophy is very different than most other doctors in the field. I tend to place hairlines in the mature position while most other doctors place the hairlines higher with more recession. There is a belief by many doctors that eventually a traditional mature hairline normally found in a non-balding man will not look normal as a man ages, so the hairline designs offered by many of my colleagues leave portions of the Norwood Class 3 and 4 frontal pattern into the end design of the hairline. Most men, however, want the man that they see in the mirror to reflect the mature hairline, not an “older” looking hairline, so I recommend the mature hairline almost all of the time. This is easily seen at our monthly open house events or online in our Hairline Photo Gallery. As my design of a hairline differs from many of the designs of my colleagues, the art form of a hair transplant surgeon will be evident to all.
Graft trimming:
Graft trimming by the surgeon and his team seems to reflect the robustness of the hair growth. A study was performed by Dr. Michael Beehner, where he trimmed the grafts from chunky to very skinny. The grafts that were made very skinny did not grow as well as those grafts that were made more chunky with more fat surrounding the hair grafts. Dr. Beehner believes that making grafts very skinny seems to:
New Hair Institute has always produced chubby grafts for these obvious reasons giving us a good growth track record. There is a direct relationships between the size of the graft and the ability to make recipient sites and place them well. The need to match the graft thickness with the recipient site holes are critical for good graft stability and growth.
FUE:
Four devices were shown to improve the FUE (follicular unit extraction) process. Each claimed that their product was the only one that worked. Every one had a mechanical rotation associated with it one with vibration, others with partial twists of varying diseases. Costs for these devices run as little as $60/each for a disposable device, to as high as possibly $200,000 for robotic controlled FUE soon to be available on the market. Clearly when there are so many options offered, the suggestion is that none really work well. Time will tell which are the best instruments by next year’s ISHRS meeting in Boston.
Saturday morning held a series of sessions called “Breakfast with the Experts”. My session on FUE seemed to have the highest audience. The concerns by the participants were the wild and unsubstantiated claims in performing high numbers of FUEs in a single procedure and a very unrealistic view of damage to the FUE graft from transaction and stripping the grafts in the process of extracting the grafts.
Wound closures:
Would closures from strip surgery were discussed in great detail by many doctors, each promoting their own prejudices. There was clearly no technique that was better than others to prevent scarring. Suggestions on trichophytic closures were one of the few bright spots, but the differences in the techniques used by the various doctors, in my opinion, ranged from effective to completely ineffective. In other words, getting a trichophytic closure is no guarantee of a great result from the technique and a trichophytic closure in one doctor’s hands may be a radically different technique than the same procedure in another doctor’s hands. Results ranged anywhere between wonderful and a complete failure.
I’m a 20 years old male. I started to use Nutricap since I started to notice my hair getting thinner. Just used it for 20 days and I think that my hair loss has increased. I was wondering if Nutricap Anti-Hairloss pills have caused it. Usually, I lose a lot of hair 3 days after I wash my hair (like it was scheduled). I was thinking of stop taking those pills. Please advice me as soon as possible. Thank you.
Nutricap is a dietary supplement. The only pill known to prevent hair loss is Propecia. Strictly speaking, if there is no rigorous scientific evidence for a hair loss treatment (Propecia, Rogaine, and hair transplant surgery are examples of those which have evidence of efficacy), then I do not recommend it. To my knowledge, vitamin supplements do not either cause hair loss (when taken in moderation) or prevent it (unless you are malnourished). Save your money, go see your doctor (or a dermatologist or a hair loss specialist), and take a photo to document your hair loss for your own assessment.
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