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Listing of African American Dermatologists?

Is there a way to find a national listing of African-American dermatologists? I am especially interested in those that deal with Seborrheic Dermatitis in African-Americans. I have had this condition since high school and I am now 27 years old. I am seeking an African-American simply because other dermatologist seem to have shampoos/treatments they want me to use on a daily basis. As an African-American woman, I cannot do that or my hair will be damaged. My hope is to find someone who has researched alternative treatments due our hair type.

Thank you.

The listing services do not go by race, so that would be a difficult distinction to make. You might see Dr. Pearl Grimes, an African American Dermatologist extraordinaire here in Los Angeles if you are on the West Coast or would be willing to make a trip to meet with her. Dr. Grimes is the Director of the Vitiligo and Pigmentation Institute of Southern California, and is also a Clinical Professor of Dermatology at UCLA.

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I Had Almost 5000 Grafts and I Want to Know How Do I Fix My Donor Area (Photo)

The best and only way to repair this donor area is with Scalp Micropigmentation, which makes it look like you have hair where there is none. This technique does not add hair, but will accomplish the goal of scar coverage and camouflage. These photos suggest that you had too many grafts removed by the FUE based upon your donor density. The hair that was harvested exceeded the areas of “safe” donor hair that is considered permanent. Considering that you received 5,000 grafts, very few people can support this magnitude of harvesting without donor depletion. This problem was 100% predictable. Your surgeon should have known better and told you to expect this type of balding in the donor area, unless your surgeon was greedy about making money from you or just plain ignorant.

overharvested donor area

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Am I a candidate for a hair transplant? (photo)

Do hairs like this stand a change with medication? Is a HT even a viable option to increase density?
Because of the possibility of diffuse unpatterned hair loss, I would want to look carefully at your donor area with a hand microscope to make sure you don’t have DUPA, which will rule out a hair transplant that probably would fail if you have DUPA. Medications may work well but have the medications managed by a good, caring, competent doctor

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Am I balding or am I developing a mature hairline? (photo)

It looks like you have a maturing hairline developing. I can tell this because the highest crease in your furrowed brow is just one finger breadth above the lowest part of your hairline. It will eventually take on a typical male V-Shape. In the future, you might yet develop frontal recession, but now it does not look like that


2019-07-17 14:48:37Am I balding or am I developing a mature hairline? (photo)

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Losing Hair on Back of Head

Doc, I’ve recently taken notice that along with my frontal hair loss, I’ve been losing way more hair from the back side of my head. Since that is the permanent zone, could this have an effect on any future hair transplants? I’ve been on Proscar cut into quarters taken daily since January. And can hair length increase or influenece hairloss (as mine is just about shoulder length)? Thanks

I must sound like a broken record. To make a diagnosis, you need to have your hair mapped out for miniaturization to determine what is actually happening. If you are losing hair from the ‘permanent’ zone and you are a male, then you may have Diffuse Unpatterned Alopecia (DUPA) (see Follicular Transplantation: Patient Evaluation and Surgical Planning?). If you are a female, then this is not unusual, especially if you have genetic female hair loss. Get to a good doctor and find out what it is and then what to do about it.


2006-12-14 08:24:24Losing Hair on Back of Head

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Am I receding?

A good photo to show your recession should be a frontal view with your hair pulled back and your eyebrows lifted high so that the creases on the forehead show up. This will show the anatomical landmarks to measure where your hairline belongs and more about what the shape should be. A normal hairline is one finger breadth above the highest crease of the furrowed brow. Anything higher is recession. I can only guess that this man doesn’t have recession because the frontal hairline is flat, which is an evolutionary step towards a mature hairline, but if he supplied me the photos as I outlined above, I could be more definitive.