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Teen Losing Hair On Sides and Back of Head

I am a 17-year old boy and have been losing my hair for a year now. Im losing quite a lot of hair on top but thats not the thing, the thing is that im losing some hair on the sides and the back of my head and its really scary. There is no doubt that i have male pattern baldness but im wondering if lets say one becomes a 5 in the norwood class doesnt that person lose some(lose som density) hair on the sides and the back. Is it just the norwood 7 and beyond that lose their hair their there or what? Please answer there is no one that can answer my question!!

With a traditional balding pattern as outlined in the Norwood chart (see below), the sides and back are spared. All thinning is limited to the front, top, and crown in patients with genetic male pattern baldness (MPB). So if you do have thinning hair on the sides or back of your head, I might think about diffuse unpatterned alopecia (DUPA) — but this is all complete guess work without examining you myself. The questions you asked me via email should be asked of your caring doctor in person following an examination of your hair and scalp. I don’t know what you’re seeing, so I can’t provide much more than that.

 

You need to establish some measurements with mapping your scalp for miniaturization at a minimum in following your hair loss. You also need to have a good doctor establish a Master Plan for your potential progressive balding.


2008-03-19 15:07:31Teen Losing Hair On Sides and Back of Head

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Teen Dyed Hair 6 Times in 8 Months

hi, I’m 17, and about 8 months ago i started dying my hair. I am naturally ginger and have dyed it around 6 times in the last 8 months. I have noticed alot recently that my hair is falling out around the crown, but the hair that falls out appears to have a root on but does not have ginger half to it. whereas if i tug a hair out it is half guinger half black. This is causing me alot of concern and im frequently being bullied about my thing hair at the back. I am growing the colour out back to my natural colour hoping that the dying is causing my hair to fall out. But I dont think it is this because the roots are falling out, plaese advise me and help me. It will be appreciated so much

Thankyou.

Leave your hair alone and wait until it replaces itself. Your frequent dying may have damaged some of the hair. Use a good quality shampoo and conditioner, no dyes. Hair grows out at a rate of 1/2 inch per month, so it will take you 6 months to grow out 3 inch long new hair.


2008-07-10 21:06:08Teen Dyed Hair 6 Times in 8 Months

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Teen Daughter Has 2nd Degree Chemical Burn on Scalp

My daughter is 17 yrs. old. She has a 2nd degree burn to her scalp from a chemical. She had highlights done at a local beauty salon and she was burned. She now has a hypertrophic scar. Will cortisone shots to the scalp help? Her hair follicles are completely burned.

If it is a 2nd degree chemical burn, I doubt the hair will grow back normally (if at all) and the cortisone shots will probably not help the hypertrophic scar at this stage. It is very difficult to give an opinion without seeing her. Fortunately, there are many options to treat her, including scar reduction surgery or even hair transplants, which work quite well in many cases. Consider sending us photographs — in the photos include a ruler so that the size of the defect is clear.

In the last two weeks, I have seen three patients with similar problems. We have offices in San Jose, Los Angeles, and Newport Beach, California. You can always schedule a free consultation for an evaluation by calling 800-NEW-HAIR.

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Techniques to Minimize Donor Area Scarring

All skin incisions produce scars, including those made by the best surgeons. Traditional hair transplant donor scars have a width of 1-3mm in 95% of patients and 2-3% of patients may see their scars even wider. The key to minimizing scar visibility is to directly address the factors contributing to a widened scar, like the healing characteristics of head tissues and collagen. Fortunately, the New Hair Institute (NHI) uses many surgical techniques to minimize scarring and scar widening.

Fascial Closure Technique: A fascial closure can be utilized to reduce wound tension when two skin edges are brought together, therefore reducing the likelihood of scar stretching. Before exterior sutures or staples are placed, we imbricate (or overlap) the underlying fascia, which is the fibrous tissue network located between the skin and the underlying structure of muscle and bone beneath the skin. (Fig. A) A more complex fascial closure is made when tunnels are created below the fascia to further reduce tension upon closure. (Fig. B) The final sutures or staples on the skin are not shown in the diagrams.

Trichophytic Closure Technique: A trichophytic closure, “hair loving” in Latin, promotes hair growth directly through a healing wound. For many years plastic surgeons have used this technique while repairing hairlines during brow lifts or in conjunction with face lifts. A small piece of one wound edge, as well as the corresponding hair, is removed. When the wound heals and a scar is formed, the buried and partially cut hair follicles will begin to grow through the scar. (Fig. C) Since hair follicles cut in this manner resume growth, there is no unnecessary follicle waste. When scars are wider than the 2 to 3mm range, this closure technique is less effective, because it typically promotes hair follicle growth only within a 2 to 3mm width where the trichotomy was done.

However, both of these techniques do not account for patient variability. The physiology of wound healing and scar formation is a very complex matter with numerous books devoted to the topic. Some patients heal with a virtually undetectable scar, less than 1mm, without any special closures while others form a wider scar despite fascial and trichophytic closures. Scars within the 2-3mm range are widely accepted since surrounding hair growth usually disguises any scar formation and few of my patients ever complain of a 2-3mm scar (Fig. D) that they can not see.

Update: Please see Trichophytic Closure Photos

Illustrations by Jae P. Pak, M.D.

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Technician doing hair transplants in his basement in Toronto

The person doing the surgery was arrested. It is amazing not that he was doing transplants in his basement, but that someone would agree to it just for a reduced price. The patient was told it wasn’t a surgery. Death is a reasonable complication when you don’t know what you are doing as a surgeon.

In the early 1990s, some tech working for a doctor, opened up his office for weekend and did the surgery over the weekend using the doctors’ own supplies. They needed more help, so friends working for NYC garbage collection, worked for them, assisting them do the surgery. It hit the front pages of the NY Newspapers (see:https://www.iahrs.org/hair-transplant-podcast/garbage-man-hair-transplant-surgeon-you-cant-make-this-stuff-up)

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TE and hair quality changes

Why do TE change the hair texture so much? My hair is completely dry and stringy

You can treat your TE hair with a good quality thickening and softening products.

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Taxotere Can Cause Hair Loss

Taxotere is a drug for treating cancer. Cancers and hair have something in common – they are both fast growing organs. Cancer drugs attack fast-growing organs. In the body, hair is the fastest growing organ, followed by the intestine. Therefore, hair loss, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea are often side effects. Once the medications stop, the hair will probably come back, and nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea along with it will subside.

Taxotere may lead to Permanent Hair Loss from tressless


2018-06-26 10:12:01Taxotere Can Cause Hair Loss

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Tattoos That Spread Can Be Mistaken as Cancer Metastases

I found this article of interest. It was in a woman who had extensive leg tattoos and known cervical cancer. A whole-body PET-CT scan revealed what appeared to be cancer spread in the left and right ileac lymph nodes, the team reports and this resulted in a surgical exploration of these lymph nodes which revealed the tattoo pigment in the lymph nodes not cancer. We know that Tattoos spread and in many body tattoos particularly when the tattoo is placed deep in the dermis. This produces lateral spreading to obtain the color backgrounds that the tattooist wants to achieve (Not what we do in scalp micropigmentation). These tattoos however do not stay in the deeper dermis, but move up the body’s lymphatics into the regional lymph nodes. Many of these pigments have heavy metals in them that have a tendency to migrate as the body tries to ‘clean it up’. Some of the temporary tattoos that are used in scalp micropigmentation have a silicon base, and silicon is known to migrate from the placement site to as far as the brain and lungs and if it is silicon based, that is a real risk.

We perform scalp micropigmentation with organic pigments (no silicon or heavy metals) and keep them located to the very upper part of the dermis to minimizes systemic spread. We are very aware that proper placement of the pigment is critical, not only to obtain the discrete ‘dots’ we create that looks like cut hairs, but to keep these ‘dots’ very superficial so that lateral spread is minimized.

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Tattoos Can Cause Eye Problems, Article Reported to Me by Physician Patient of Mine.

I have read that body tattoos when performed in volume, placed deep in the dermis, can migrate and develop embolisms to the brain and other organs, in this case, the eye. I have discussed some of this in my article: https://newhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Journal-of-clinical-and-aesthetic-surgery-Article.pdf. Most of the inks used by the tattoo industry have insolvable material and heavy metals. These particles can move into the lymphatics of the skin where they get transported to the venous system, into the heart, and then pumped almost anywhere blood goes. I don’t believe this is a significant problem for SMP; however, it is a real risk for those in the population who have extensive tattooing. The more the tattoos, the greater the risks.
We use only organic pigments that are placed at the very upper part of the dermis as shown in my recent post on baldingblog: https://newhair.com/baldingblog/smp-scalp-micropigmentation-alopecia-areata-can-activate-disease/. I believe what we use is relatively safe because the organic pigments are placed into the superficial dermis with Scalpmicroigmentation.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2723634


2019-02-20 08:17:49Tattoos Can Cause Eye Problems, Article Reported to Me by Physician Patient of Mine.

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Tapped on the Head After a Hair Transplant

BoxHello Dr. Rassman! I am very grateful for the information that you provide for all of us trying to find legitimate ways to mitigate hair loss and for answering my questions in the past.

It has been almost three months since my hair transplant procedure and I am looking forward to the results. I do recall however that 3 days after my procedure, a friend of mine inadvertently tapped my head back then with a folded box. There was no pain, no bleeding occured and the force of the tap itself was lightly moderate.

My question would be: Could that tap may have affected the grafts in the recepient area that the box may have touched? I’m just concerned that that particular single tap (no taps or hits with any object have occured since then) may have affected any of the grafts that the box may have touched back then. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

As long as it was a single tap, and the box was folded, and the color of the box was brown… you should be fine. 🙂

In all seriousness, it’s common to be overly-worried about the results of your hair transplant since at just three months you’re probably not seeing growth… but a light tap on the head is nothing to be concerned about.