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Below, we’ve compiled some of the latest hot topic hair loss questions and answers we received from our managing publisher Bill Seemiller and expert hair restoration physicians.
Why do some patients have great hair transplant results, and some have terrible results. Is it the doctor, or the patient? My doctor made it sound like this is a very routine surgery, and would be hard to mess up. If that is the case, do some people’s bodies just not respond well to the grafts?
Hair transplantation is a multi-step process and is only as good as the weakest link in the chain. A great result is due to the whole transplant team and a poor result is the responsibility of the doctor. Simple. Unless a patient goes out of their way to knock out and abuse their grafts, he or she gets no blame.
That said, there are certainly patient factors that can affect how transplanted hair grows.
As an extreme case, if a hair loss doctor decided to do a hair transplant on a patient who had smoked 3 packs per day, had poorly controlled diabetes for 30 years, had vascular disease, and diabetic skin ulcers, impaired scalp circulation could very well lead to poor hair growth. That truly would be a question of bad patient physiology.
More commonly, patients with fine, straight donor hair and small follicular units will not get as dense results as someone with coarser, wavier hair and more hairs per follicular unit, if the same number of grafts are transplanted into the same area. That is more a question of anatomy and math.
Our long time hair restoration forum has recently been dramatically enhanced and now provides social networking. Much like facebook, you can now share and create blogs, photo albums and videos, chat online and get updates from fellow hair loss sufferers.
If you were a member of our previous discussion forum, all you have to do to reactivate your membership is visit our new community and enter the email address you originally registered with. You will then be sent an email to reset your password. All of your previous profile information, posts, and photos have been successfully transferred to our new Hair Restoration Social Network and enhanced hair loss discussion forum. If you are new to our community and would like to join, simply visit our new community and click “Join Now”.
With help from a team of professional developers, our managing publisher Bill Seemiller has really worked hard dealing with the many tedious details needed to make this happen. So far, the overwhelming majority of the feedback we received has been positive.
Over the last two weeks, all the major bugs have been ironed out and enhancements are underway. Kudos to Bill for his great work in managing this dramatic overhaul. We encourage you to help make our new social network optimal by reporting any issues or suggested enhancements to Bill at help@hairtransplantnetwork.com. You can also post them publicly on our forum by adding a reply to the topic “ Welcome to Your New Hair Loss Forum and Social Community”.
Recently, we uploaded a series of hair transplant video interviews on YouTube featuring Dr. James Vogel. To learn more about Dr. Vogel, his skill, experience, and philosophy on patient care, visit “Hair Transplant Video Interviews with Dr. Vogel“.
While Rogaine (minoxidil) is the most effective and only proven topical hair loss treatment on the market today, there are several alternative topical treatments worth considering adding to your treatment regimen. But given the overwhelming number of new hair loss products developed and advertised every week, how can you know which ones may work and which ones won’t?
The reality is that there are no non-surgical hair loss solutions proven to regrow hair in completely bald areas. But some treatments show promise in thickening and strengthening areas of thinning hair.
To learn more about and discuss alternative, credible hair loss treatments that are scientifically backed to work, visit “What is the Best Topical?”
Dealing with the emotional impact of hair loss can be quite challenging for many balding men and women worldwide. That’s why in addition to learning how to treat baldness, we’ve put together several suggestions and tips for coping with the emotional and psychological impact hair loss can have on our lives.
Keep Your Friends Close: Battling with hair loss is ultimately about acceptance. While we may not like what we look like with a bald head, knowing people still love and respect us despite an altered appearance is vital to one’s overall emotional and psychological wellbeing. Communicating your struggle with close friends, especially those who can relate to you can also be therapeutic.
Relate, Share, and Connect with Other Balding Men and Women: The expression, “there is safety in numbers” has never been so true. Sharing, connecting, and relating to others struggling with hair loss can bring comfort and peace in knowing you’re not alone. Our hair loss forum can be a great place to find support and encouragement in your struggle with baldness.
Find Hair Loss Solutions that Really Work: For some, hair loss is a fact of life and they’ll choose to go bald gracefully. For others, they’d like nothing more than to keep or restore their natural hair. Though no cure for baldness exists, non-surgical treatments such as Propecia (finasteride) and Rogaine (minoxidil) are proven to slow down, stop, and even reverse the effects of male pattern baldness in most men. Today’s revolutionary ultra refined hair transplant procedures can produce undetectable results so natural that you’ll fool even the toughest critics. Those considering hair restoration, especially hair transplant surgery are encouraged to take plenty of time to research and educate themselves on the benefits, limitations, and potential risks that go along with each treatment.
In the next couple of weeks, we will be making a decision. However, we’d like to invite any interested parties who haven’t yet applied to contact us.
For those interested in this part time paid job opportunity, please send a letter of interest and updated resume to our managing publisher Bill Seemiller at help@hairtransplantnetwork.com.
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Recently, we edited and uploaded a collection of hair transplant video interviews on YouTube featuring Dr. Brandon Ross. To learn more about Dr. Ross, his skill, experience, and philosophy on patient care, visit “Hair Transplant Video Interviews with Dr. Brandon Ross“.
Below, we’ve embedded a few of the YouTube video interviews with Dr. Ross for your viewing pleasure. We hope you’ll offer your feedback on these videos.
Meeting Hair Transplant Patient Expectations by Dr. Brandon Ross
Hair Transplant Surgeon Dr. Ross on Educating Hair Loss Patients
I’m having a hair transplant on the frontal third of my scalp and as soon as it grows out I’m thinking about shaving my hair down to a grade 2 or 3. Is this possible?
The type of procedure you are having and the way your skin heals will really determine how short you will be able to cut your hair in the donor area after hair transplant surgery. I usually tell patients to be prepared to keep the hair a little longer in the donor area, but in return you will have more hair in the areas of thinning hair and balding. Like most things in life there is a give and take situation with hair transplantation. I admit that often I have patients where it’s very hard to find the scar in the donor area even after a strip procedure. But I also tell my patients not to count on that being the result in their case.
I’ve seen lots of ads lately for a hair loss product called Provillus. They claim it has an FDA approved ingredient for regrowing hair. Is this product legit?
Provillus does contain an FDA approved ingredient for hair loss. The ingredient, minoxidil, is one many balding men and women are already familiar with. Each application of Provillus consists of a tablet and topical solution.
In a nutshell, most everyone agrees there are no new “miracle breakthrough” ingredients in Provillus making it a successful hair loss treatment. In fact, the angle being worked upon the consumer is as old as consumerism itself, and can be summed up in a word: marketing. If you believe that taking existing products and combining them makes a product more effective than the sum of its parts, then Provillus may be for you.
Fact: there are only two hair loss drugs approved by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA). These drugs are Rogaine (minoxidil) and Propecia (finasteride). Therefore, anytime someone claims a hair loss product contains an FDA approved ingredient, it must be one of these two drugs. Let’s start at the beginning of the hair loss drug timeline for a clear understanding of why these two drugs have been proven and FDA approved to treat baldness.
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The type of procedure you are having and the way your skin heals will really determine how short you will be able to cut your hair in the donor area after hair transplant surgery. I usually tell patients to be prepared to keep the hair a little longer in the donor area, but in return you will have more hair in the areas of thinning hair and balding. Like most things in life there is a give and take situation with hair transplantation. I admit that often I have patients where it’s very hard to find the scar in the donor area even after a strip procedure. But I also tell my patients not to count on that being the result in their case.
