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A little over a five years ago, I agreed to work with a company that supplied Laser Hats to us at no charge (valued at $3,000 each). I got 12 volunteers and sold them a Laser Hat for $500 with the caveat that they would come into our office every three months for photos. At the time we did this, we did not have the HAIRCHECK instrument. It would have been the perfect tool to measure if any value was achieved with the once-a-day use of the Laser Hat. There were clearly problems in the quality of the photos and the way the patients combed their hair. I for one will admit that I was less than fastidious about standardizing the quality of the photos. None of the dozen patient reported any significant benefit. Four of the 12 did not come back for photos but I did speak to each of them a year later. They were incentivized to get their $500 back and to keep the Laser Hat if they came in four times in a year.

The patient below had pictures 18 months apart which are shown. These photos were less important than what the man told me, essentially he was disappointed that he did not see results to the experimental Laser Hat. The upper row of photos are 18 months earlier than the lower row of photos. You judge for yourself. Is is worth $3,000 to purchase a Laser Hat?

I am 21 years old and my hair is everything to me. I don’t want to lose it, even when I grow older. Is there a mature female hairline like the mature male hairlines you write about that I should worry about?

Unlike the male’s mature hairline which is V shaped, the female hairlines are usually rounded. The rounded hairline may move upward and in most women who are under 40, the upward movement does not change the rounded shape. If by chance you do not follow this rule of thumb, you can always have hair transplants to restore your rounded hairline. Check it out with a doctor who understands the female patterns of hair loss.

Note the thick hairs and the many very tiny and thin hairs throughout the viewing field. This is full blown miniaturiation which is best treated with finasteride in hope the miniaturization will reverse. This is more probable in men in their teens or early 2os. Take such a picture on you to see where you stand.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1622749/

Some people have complained about cobblestonning or irregularities of the skin in the recipient area after a hair transplant. This is an example of a technique used frequently, where the doctor’s team left the grafts stick out of the skin. When it heals, sometimes the skin edge of the graft heals elevated from the surface of the scalp and this is what many patients complain about. See picture of patient 9 days after a hair transplant and you can see that the grafts are all sticking out of the scalp and it is not cosmetically pleasing. Also for comparison, take a look at one of our patients compared side by side also 9 days after surgery with dense packing of the grafts but as you can see from the photo on the right, the two patients are night and day for comparison. I am showing this because you should demand this type of post operative appearance because you have to be social and can’t look like a freak like the guy on the left.

It is too early to tell for sure but it does look promising. I believe that in another year, if it is the drug that is making the change and not your hair length or defects in your photography, you will know if it is working. Good luck.

They say than pictures are worth 1000 words, Great results from using finasteride and minoxidil in combination. If he would have been transplanted, the hairline would be lower, halfway between were it is and the highest crease of his furrowed brow which he nicely shows.