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What is the Choi Implanter?

I am reading your site with great interest. I have also looked into the Choi procedure, and one well-known Choi advocate in the UK (where I also live) offers what seems to be a reasonable package, in Athens Greece. I was wondering if you could tell me more about the Choi procedure and does it yield the BEST results, with regards to density with least scarring as it is claimed? Why do some people say that FUE is not so effective? Is an “needle implanter” better than the conventional method? What about the use of Choi around the world? For instance USA, Japan, Australia? Any advice you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

The Choi implanter is just a surgical tool. It makes some aspects of the transplant easier to perform, especially for those people who did not develop the difficult placing skills with the more traditional transplant tools used throughout the world. An instrument is only as good as the person using it, so I can not package the tool with the technique. The Choi generally requires ‘skinny’ grafts, which tend to dry out more easily, therefore, this instrument requires special skills, different than those that do not have to make the grafts skinny. Some people believe that skinny grafts do not grow as well. I believe that in the right hands, with the years of experience, skinny grafts should grow as well a chubby grafts. The grafts we make are half way between skinny and chubby, just my preference.

The Choi implanter did not develop a following in the United States. In Asia and other parts of the world, it is very popular. I do not believe that it is any better than anything else that the surgeons have perfected in their native countries.

To answer your questions about FUE, I would suggest that you look at the FUE category of this blog.

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What Is the Cause of DUPA

Started suffering sudden and rapid hair loss, most noticeably on the sides and back of head.. Thought it was telogen effluvium at first but it appears the hairs are miniaturizing rather than just shedding (hairs are coming in thinner and scragglier and not growing as long). Can DUPA be caused by anything other than androgens? If caused by stress or hormonal imbalance or thyroid, if the issue is addressed can the miniaturization be reversed? Or can only shed hairs from TE be grown back to normal?

Most men who say that they have DUPA, don’t have it. As the doctor who first identified DUPA, I don’t believe that anyone knows what causes it. It may be uniquely genetic because it is similar to some women with diffuse alopecia which presents similarly to men with DUPA.


2020-06-04 19:21:59What Is the Cause of DUPA

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What is the Cause for My Female Hair Loss?

34y/o female, on birth control, no visible medical conditions that I am aware. Started losing hair about 7 years ago once graduated from college and ended a three year engagemenet under stressful lconditions. Hair loss has progressedandrecentlynoticed the amount of thinning as I had a head full of thick hair. Now thinner, and every night shwer, there is always some hair in drain. Ihave tired multivitamins, Kevis, Advecia, and Hairgenesis….the vitamins helped but still falling out. I dont knowwha tto do….I am 5’2″, weight about 115-120 pounds. I was addicted to laxatives at one time but have since recovered. Could I have a vit. deficiancy? hormone problem dueto birth control? My thyroid checked out fine. I dont want to be 40 and bald. I have no children, no otehr medications.

It is hard to know exactly what the cause and solutions might be via email without first meeting you. My suggestion would be to please read my many answers to women with hair loss. I discuss the medical work-up required for women, plus the causes for it. A good doctor to check you out and a good hair doctor will go along way to help you focusing upon your hair loss problem. I am sorry to sound evasive, but hair loss in women is a difficult differential diagnosis.

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What is the best way to repair a hair transplant scar?

I live in the eastern PA area. I want to get this repaired and I figure an FUE session would be worth trying. I’ve tried SMP and it didn’t work well. Is there success with FUE into scar tissue? Are there any experiences both positive and negative that can be shared?

I’ve visited a Long Island doctor’s office before and I’m likely to go back there. I haven’t done much research in the last 2-3 years with doctors so are there any others that I should be considering? Is FUE about $20 a graft still? So I’m thinking maybe 200 grafts in the scar could work.

FUE into the scar leaves a scar colored background and the hairs often grow kinky or curly, certainly different than the surrounding donor area hair. The best treatment for a donor scar is Scalp Micropigmentation, see here: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/gallery/scar-covering/ If you had this and it failed, then go someplace where it is done well. Please note that almost the entire scar disappears when the operator knows what they are doing in this link.


2020-12-06 10:20:42What is the best way to repair a hair transplant scar?

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What is the best test for determining hair loss? (Reddit)

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What is the area I circled in the photo

Hairs grew in the area I circle before and now there are no hairs there. Does that mean that no hair will grow there again?

Although the area where I placed the arrow previously had hair growing out of it, maybe it was a one hair follicular unit and the hair went into the Catagen phase of the hair cycle and disappeared. If that were the case, it would come back within a month or two.

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What is the Accelerated Hair Loss After Stopping Finasteride?

I am a 51 year old male with some recent thinning in the vertex area, but otherwise a I have a full head of hair. I don’t seem to shed many hairs. In fact, after combing my hair, I may see only 1 or 2 hairs in the sink and never any hairs on my pillow when I awake in the morning. I have recently procured a prescription for Proscar, but I’m hesitant to use it because of some of the side effects mentioned. In an earlier answer to someones post,you mentioned the fact that if one was to use Finastaride, then discontinue it’s use, that subsequent thinning would occur at an accelerated pace. Does this mean only the hair you may have grown as a result of proscar use, or your overall hair in general? I’m currently trying grape seed extract, multi vitamins and Sawpalmetto. I’m also considering just letting things take their natural course and joining the rest of bald headed America.

Thanks for your anticipated response

In my opinion, grape seed extract, multi vitamins, and saw palmetto will not significantly affect your hair loss problem. Bald can be beautiful. There is nothing wrong with being bald.

With regards to finasteride (Propecia or Proscar), it may not cure hair loss, but it is the best medication available to slow down hair loss or even grow some hair back. If you stop taking this medication after many years, you may experience what I describe as “catch up” hair loss in which you lose all the hair that grew or stayed as a result of the drug. In short, your hair state will be at a point if you had never taken the drug in the first place.

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What Is Telogen Effluvium?

i am a 13 year old female with pretty bad hair loss. last week, my mom brought me to a dermatologist and she said that i had a dry scalp with dandruff and telogen effluvium. do people go bald or have bad hair thinning when they have telogen affluvium? how long does it last? it has been happening to me for about a month and 7 days or so. i take vitamins and am very healthy. should i be nervous and scared to get my hair wet or to brush it? what can i do? please help. thanks. goodbye

You will find extensive reviews of this subject at eMedicine and Wikipedia.


2007-05-11 08:56:17What Is Telogen Effluvium?

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What is my hair loss pattern on Norwood Scale? (photo)

I have marked up the areas that are thinning that may lead to complete balding. The forelock has a different genetic code and may remain in some men so this man has an evolving Norwood Class 5 pattern that could eventually lead to a Class 6 pattern as many such patterns do. You have at this time a persistent forelock that may eventually be lost along with the bridge area defined in the photo as well. If you are lucky and the forelock lasts until you are 35, it will hold a frame to your face for many years after

 

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What is my classification of balding?

You have a Norwood Class 4 pattern of balding. In time, the crown balding may move forward and the frontal recession may move back. Only time will tell


2020-04-28 16:31:34What is my classification of balding?