Balding Blog

Hello, I am a 29 year old male who’s suffering from hair loss. I’ve recently been to a few consultants’ regarding hair restoration surgery in UK. Unfortunately the surgeries and the surgeons seem to be inexperienced in which I didn’t feel confident enough to go through with the surgery. Also they came across as more of sales man trying to sell me a car rather than be a respectable surgeon. I would be most grateful if you could recommend me a good surgeon, I am willing to travel to the US to get the best surgeon.

Many Thanks

Be careful not to generalize. There are immoral doctors who employ aggressive sales tactics in the United States also. There are good doctors in the UK who have good reputations and are not of the ‘used car’ variety. If you are traveling from the United Kingdom and want a hair transplant surgery in the US, you can contact Dr. Robert Bernstein in New York, which is closer than my offices in California. Dr. Bernstein was my associate for many years at NHI. Or if you don’t mind the extra 5 or 6 hours of flying time, you are more than welcome to have your procedure done at my office. If you send me your picture (which will remain confidential), my office staff can set up a phone consultation.

The distribution of your hair in hair grafts in a Class 7 pattern is dependent upon (1) your donor density (available supply of graft without depleting the donor area, (2) your styling preferences, (3) the thickness of your donor hair (Hair mass of each shaft which is a measurable criteria) and (4) your pocketbook. A good doctor should be able to set up realistic expectations for you here. You must recognize that the bald area is three times the area of your entire donor area and that only a little over half of your donor area can contribute grafts to the bald area which means that a little over 1/5th of the hair is movable to cover an area 5 times the size. Anybody can figure out that the math doesn’t work, so how do you get good results when there is such a limitation? That is the ART that the doctor does the surgery with a good design and an understanding of what he has to work with and what he can and can not accomplish. The key is to communicate this information to you, the patient.

Miniaturized hairs often lose pigment. So, if your hair was miniaturized and it became darker, it is probably reflecting a reversal of miniaturized hairs.

Yes, it is a good sign because miniaturized hairs don’t have the pigments that normal hair has. When the miniaturization is reversing, many people get some return of their original color.

Thanks for the article. One important comment in the article is: “Also, as with all scientific research on hair regeneration, there are a lot of unknowns and there is no easy way to tell whether a particular research will be brought to fruition or not. The same goes for PTD-DBM hair regeneration.” What this is saying is: don’t count on any short-term answers. Because of articles with positive mouse testing and human skin on mouse studies that are successful, too many people think that the cure for balding is at hand. I have seen this same “story” told over the past 25 years, and still, no cure is available.

For most young men losing hair, the problem is now, not sometime in the future. They want solutions that work now, and these solutions are limited to Minoxidil and Finasteride or hair transplantation.

Korean scientists breakthrough in hair regeneration targeting CXXC5 protein and WNT Signaling Pathway from tressless