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Getting Cheap Hair Transplant Surgery

January 24th, 2012

Cheap Hair Trans­plant When you think about pur­chas­ing lux­ury items, fancy cars, exotic vaca­tion, and dream homes aren’t the only casu­al­ties of a rocky econ­omy. Some who once planned to revise their hair line to boost their self-esteem are think­ing twice about going under the knife, lead­ing to a drop in patients opt­ing for hair restora­tion pro­ce­dures. Twently years ago peo­ple thought only movie stars and rich men had hair restora­tion. Now with the eco­nomic pinch peo­ple in every eco­nomic bracket can afford hair restora­tion with­out hav­ing to lower the qual­ity in sur­geon they visit. The cost per graft is greatly reduced as the num­ber of grafts per pro­ce­dure increases. At Bev­erly Hills Hair Restora­tion they assert that you will get more value for you money at their office that you will get at any of their com­peti­tors– includ­ing the so called bar­gain priced clin­ics. “Con­sider not the cost per graft but the cost per graft that grows” Says?John Kahen, M.D. hair trans­plant sur­geon and med­ical direc­tor of Bev­erly Hills Hair Restora­tion. The price per trans­planted graft may not be the price you ulti­mately pay if the pro­ce­dure is not per­formed prop­erly. You want to pay for each trans­planted graft that grows hair. Addi­tion­ally, you want that hair to be prop­erly placed with the nat­ural direc­tion of growth. If you lose your grafts due to poor or care­less tech­nique, you haven’t merely lost your money; you have lost for­ever liv­ing donor tis­sue, a lim­ited, non-replaceable resource. These facts mean that many peo­ple end up pay­ing much more as opposed to a cheap hair trans­plant to so called “bar­gain clin­ics” for each hair that actu­ally grows. At Bev­erly Hills Hair Restora­tion we spare no expense in our goal of main­tain­ing our rep­u­ta­tion as the best qual­ity work.      

Permanent Hair Loss in Women

March 14th, 2011
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The most com­mon type of hair loss in women occurs in a dif­fuse pat­tern. Dif­fuse hair loss is most often hered­i­tary.  It can also be caused by under­ly­ing med­ical con­di­tions, med­ica­tions, and other fac­tors.  Com­mon or “hered­i­tary” bald­ness in women, also called female pat­tern alope­cia, is genetic and can come either the mother or father’s side of the fam­ily. It is caused by the actions of two enzymes; aro­matase (which is found pre­dom­i­nantly in women) and 5-a reduc­tase (which is found in both women and men).

Med­ical con­di­tions that can cause dif­fuse hair loss in women:

  • Obstet­ric and gyne­co­logic con­di­tions such as post­par­tum and post-menopausal states or ovar­ian tumors
  • Ane­mia — iron deficiency
  • Thy­roid disease
  • Nutri­tional — crash diets, bulimia, protein/calorie defi­ciency, essen­tial fatty acid or zinc defi­ciency, mal­ab­sorb­tion, hyper­vi­t­a­minosis A
  • Stress — sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures, gen­eral anes­the­sia, and severe emo­tional problems
  • Con­nec­tive tis­sue dis­eases such as Lupus

A rel­a­tively large num­ber of drugs can cause “tel­o­gen efflu­vium,” a con­di­tion where hair is shifted into a rest­ing stage and then sev­eral months later shed. For­tu­nately, this shed­ding is reversible if the med­ica­tion is stopped, but the reac­tion can be con­fused with genetic female hair loss if not prop­erly diag­nosed. Chemother­apy causes a dif­fuse type of hair loss called “ana­gen efflu­vium” that can be very exten­sive, but often reversible when the med­ica­tion is stopped.

Drugs that can cause dif­fuse hair loss in women:

  1. Blood thin­ners (anti-coagulants), such as war­farin and heparin
  2. Seizure med­ica­tion, most com­monly dilantin
  3. Med­ica­tion for gout, colchicines and alop­uri­nol (Xyloprim)
  4. Blood pres­sure med­ica­tion, par­tic­u­larly the b-blockers (such as Inderal) or diuretics
  5. Anti-inflammatory drugs such as prednisone
  6. Med­ica­tions that lower cho­les­terol and other lipids
  7. Mood alter­ing drugs — lithium, tri-cyclics, Elavil, Prozac
  8. Chemother­apy
  9. Thy­roid medications
  10. Oral con­tra­cep­tive agents, par­tic­u­larly those high in progestin’s
  11. Misc. — Diet pills, high doses of Vit­a­min A, street drugs (cocaine)

Local­ized Hair Loss

Although there are a host of der­ma­to­logic con­di­tions that cause hair loss, they pro­duce a pat­tern that is dif­fer­ent from the dif­fuse pat­tern of genetic hair loss com­monly seen in women and are eas­ily dif­fer­en­ti­ated from it by a dermatologist.

Local­ized hair loss in women may be sub-divided into scar­ring and non-scarring types. Alope­cia Areata is a genetic, autoim­mune dis­ease that typ­i­fies the non-scarring type. It man­i­fests with the sud­den onset of dis­crete round patches of hair loss asso­ci­ated with nor­mal skin. It can be treated with local injec­tions of steroids.

Scar­ring Alope­cia can be caused by a vari­ety of med­ical or der­ma­to­logic con­di­tions such as Lupus, Lichen Planus, or local radi­a­tion ther­apy. Hair loss from injuries, or from local med­ical prob­lems that have been cured, are usu­ally amenable to hair trans­plan­ta­tion. Radio­ther­apy can cause both scar­ring and non-scarring local­ized hair loss and it also can be treated with sur­gi­cal hair restora­tion if the area is not too large.

Local­ized female hair loss that occurs around the hair­line after face-lift surgery may be per­ma­nent. Trac­tion Alope­cia, the hair loss that occurs with con­stant tug­ging on the fol­li­cles, can also be per­ma­nent if the habit per­sists for a long period of time. Both of these con­di­tions can be treated with hair trans­plan­ta­tion.

Pat­terned Hair Loss

Women with this type of hair loss have a pat­tern sim­i­lar to what we observe in men. In other words, they have thin­ning in front or on top of their scalp with preser­va­tion of the hair in the per­ma­nent zone around the back and sides of the scalp. Thus, the bald­ing is in a char­ac­ter­is­tic “pat­tern” rather than gen­er­al­ized. Women with pat­terned hair loss and a sta­ble donor area may be excel­lent can­di­dates for sur­gi­cal hair restoration.

A sim­ple per­sonal call or email can start your road to recov­ery, so what are you wait­ing for All con­sul­ta­tions are com­pli­men­tary and free of charge. Dr. Kahen will per­son­ally answer all your questions.

John Kahen, M.D., the founder and med­ical direc­tor of Bev­erly Hills Hair Restora­tion, is one of the lead­ing hair trans­plant sur­geons to offer nat­ural results using inno­v­a­tive tech­niques in hair trans­plant surgery. After meet­ing with patients, Dr. Kahen focuses on their indi­vid­ual needs and helps each one to achieve his or her spe­cific goals. His treat­ment plans are cus­tomized and include both sur­gi­cal and non-surgical options.

Hair replacement services|Get your confidence back

November 12th, 2010

About Hair Loss

Hair plays a very impor­tant role in any individual’s appear­ance. One only needs to see a per­son with dif­fer­ent hair­styles to under­stand the role hair plays in decid­ing the over­all appear­ance of a per­son. Since a lot of your con­fi­dence comes from the way you look, a reced­ing hair­line or a bald­ing head can suck con­fi­dence out of you and can thereby wreak havoc in your social and per­sonal life.

There is always a rea­son behind hair loss and it is very impor­tant to detect the cause before going for any kind of hair treat­ment. While, gen­er­ally, hair loss is caused due to genetic fac­tors, it can also be caused from stress, pol­lu­tion and an unhealthy lifestyle.

Since hair is so vital in main­tain­ing one’s lev­els of con­fi­dence, peo­ple expe­ri­enc­ing hair loss are always on the look­out for dif­fer­ent types of treat­ment to get their pre­cious hair back. Hair replace­ment ser­vice (or hair trans­plan­ta­tion) is one treat­ment that has always been very pop­u­lar with peo­ple with hair loss problems.

About Hair Replace­ment Service

In hair replace­ment treat­ments hair fol­li­cles from the area of your head that is genet­i­cally resis­tant to going bald (called the donor area), gen­er­ally the back of your head, are used for hair trans­plan­ta­tion. There­fore, it is imper­a­tive that you have some good qual­ity hair on your head if you wish to go for the hair replace­ment ser­vice. This is usu­ally not a prob­lem as male pat­tern bald­ness will cause hair loss on the top and front of the scalp predominantly.

The Hair Replace­ment Treatment

The mod­ern hair replace­ment surgery is done using local anes­the­sia and so the patient hardly feels any pain. The whole sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dure may involve more than one ses­sion, the exact num­ber of ses­sions depend­ing on the extent of hair loss and the patient’s require­ments. There are gen­er­ally no side effects after the treat­ment and even if there are any, they are not very seri­ous and sub­side in a cou­ple of days. There may be some red­ness such as from a pin prick at the dona­tion sites.

Before going for the treat­ment, one must care­fully research about the clin­ics offer­ing hair replace­ment treat­ment that you are inter­ested in. You should get the treat­ment done only from a good clinic (and by an expe­ri­enced sur­geon) even if it is cost­lier than other clin­ics, because the cheaper clin­ics will prob­a­bly use old meth­ods of replace­ment that might prove dis­as­trous and may leave you regret­ting your deci­sion for the rest of your life.

The first visit to the clinic is very impor­tant because in the first visit, the doc­tor gets to under­stand your par­tic­u­lar hair loss prob­lem in detail, which in turn helps him or her to decide the course of your treat­ment. The doc­tor may advise you to take antibi­otics before the treat­ment and might also sug­gest some other pre-treatment pre­cau­tions. In addi­tion, you must clear all your doubts regard­ing the treat­ment in the very first visit and should also ask the doc­tor in detail about the exact pro­ce­dure of the surgery.

Recov­ery From Hair Replace­ment Surgery

If done with mod­ern equip­ment by an expe­ri­enced pro­fes­sional, no ban­dage is gen­er­ally required after the replace­ment surgery and one can even go back to one’s rou­tine the same day. The trans­planted hair grows slowly and one must not expect imme­di­ate dras­tic results after the surgery. In fact, the full results of the hair replace­ment ser­vice might even take a year to show. There­fore, the patient should actu­ally be patient in order to see the proper results.

The treat­ment can give you an approx­i­ma­tion of your prior hair den­sity and gen­er­ally it does not show even on a close exam­i­na­tion of the hair, some­thing that has made this treat­ment very pop­u­lar. Another advan­tage of this ser­vice is that the trans­planted hair requires no spe­cial main­te­nance or care. Though hair replace­ment surgery is not very cheap, it is worth the req­ui­site invest­ment con­sid­er­ing the fact that it can bring about a huge pos­i­tive change in your life.

Good Hair Upkeep Lowers Men Hair loss

October 11th, 2010

Of course you know there are many rea­son a man begins los­ing his hair. Many of the rea­sons for hair loss can­not be fixed by your own efforts. As an exam­ple, your genet­ics are a sim­ple fac­tor that can’t be changed. Proper hair care, on the other hand, can do quite a lot to help men keep their hair for as long as pos­si­ble. Keep­ing the scalp and the hair healthy can help cut down on pre­ventable hair loss. This arti­cle dis­cusses steps to take to get healthy hair and keep it as long as possible.

There are plenty of arti­cles out there that will tell you not to wash your hair every day, because your hair pro­duces oil that works to pro­tect your hair. Of course, this only pro­tects the hair that has already grown. Keep­ing your fol­li­cles clear can­not be accom­plished with­out daily wash­ing. To do this you need to wash your hair at least once every day with some mild sham­poo. Strong or very chem­i­cal­ized sham­poos can be bad for both your scalp and your hair. Take care or your scalp first and then focus on hair last to help pre­vent hair loss in men.

Try not to rub when dry­ing your hair. Instead, shake your head to get excess water out. Then pat or squeeze out the rest of the water. It will take longer to dry your hair this way but it also keeps your hair health­ier. When you rub your hair your hair gets more tan­gled and there is a higher risk of dam­ag­ing it. Your hair will thank you for let­ting it air dry. After a week or so you will see the benefits.

Your blow dryer is really not your best friend it can cause your scalp to suf­fer. This can cause clogged pores and dimin­ished hair growth. Blow dry­ing, if you decide that you must blow dry your hair, should be done on the low or the cool set­ting. It is pri­mar­ily the hot set­ting that can cause scalp dry­ness. Keep the dryer a safe dis­tance away from your scalp to pre­vent over­heat­ing or over dry­ing. If you don’t have time to let it air dry for a spe­cial occa­sion it may be nec­es­sary to use a blow dryer.

Proper hair care will not totally pre­vent men’s hair loss. How­ever you will feel bet­ter about attempt­ing to slow it down. In many cases you will see reduced rates of thin­ning and loss and increased health of the scalp and under­ly­ing con­di­tions that may dimin­ish hair growth which might be just the cure you need. Do your­self a favor and make sure that your hair and scalp are as healthy as they can pos­si­bly be.

Baldness causes and treatments

September 22nd, 2010

Bald­ness and thin­ning hair is a very com­mon ail­ment, by the age of 35 over two thirds of Amer­i­can men will suf­fer from some degree of hair loss. By the age of 50 approx­i­mately 85% of men will be deal­ing with some type of bald­ness or hair loss. Bald­ness in women is not as com­mon as men, but approx­i­mately two thirds of women suf­fer also. Most women suf­fer from pat­tern bald­ness and more com­monly hair loss and thin­ning. Bald­ness and hair loss can be dev­as­tat­ing and effect a per­sons self esteem and con­fi­dence greatly. Here are ten facts about bald­ness, some of the causes and treatments.

1.) Bald­ness is not caused by wear­ing ball caps, hats, hel­mets or any sim­i­lar apparel.
2.) There is no link between hair loss and a man’s fer­til­ity or viril­ity.
3.) If you are bald­ing shav­ing your hair off will not help grow it back thicker.
4.) It is true that some men can start bald­ing as early as their late teens.
5.) Estro­gen is what usu­ally helps women from expe­ri­enc­ing com­plete bald­ness like men, although women do suf­fer greatly from hair thin­ning and loss.
6.) Bald­ing tends to spread quickly, so you must seek pro­fes­sional help early if you want to do any­thing about it.
7.) There are many causes for bald­ness and hair loss includ­ing genet­ics, envi­ron­men­tal expo­sures, menopause, stress, hor­monal changes, smok­ing, cer­tain med­ica­tions and iron defi­ciency.
8.) True bald­ness effects only men, women can suf­fer from allover thin­ning and loss but their hair­line does not recede dra­mat­i­cally like a mans.
9.) Everyone’s hair is dif­fer­ent so hair loss and treat­ments will be dif­fer­ent from per­son to per­son.
10.) A bal­anced diet and healthy lifestyle can help save your hair.

There are treat­ments and options out there for bald­ness and hair loss, they vary for men and women. If a woman suf­fers from Alope­cia, a rare and tem­po­rary ill­ness where the immune sys­tem attacks the hair fol­li­cles it is usu­ally hard to get a med­ica­tion for it. Unfor­tu­nately many doc­tors do not like to pre­scribe it, and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies have not spent much time address­ing this issue. When Women suf­fer from hair loss the main causes are vit­a­min or hor­mone issues with for­tu­nately can be treated under the care of your physi­cian. Some treat­ments may include Nizo­ral, Prope­cia or Estro­gen, your best treat­ment options will have to be cho­sen by you and your doctor.

In men there are a cou­ple of very pop­u­lar FDA approved med­ica­tions used to help treat hered­i­tary bald­ness. Rogaine and Prope­cia are widely known and used, they work quite well in pre­vent­ing hair loss and even some hair re-growth. In some cases a man and even a woman might be a good can­di­date for hair replace­ment. These pro­ce­dures some call hair plugs are known as micro-grafting, slit graft­ing, punch graft­ing and scalp reduc­tion. Since there can be a con­sid­er­able cost and some side effects with these treat­ments it is impor­tant to weigh all your options. Bald­ness and hair loss is some­thing you do not just have to live with, there are treat­ments that should help you. Take the first and most impor­tant step and con­tact your doc­tor so you can get help for your prob­lem to feel and look like your­self again.

Alopecia in children can stress be the case?

August 27th, 2010

To eval­u­ate the clin­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics and psy­choso­cial dynam­ics of chil­dren with alope­cia, Ahn and Ro had reported alope­cia in chil­dren from Jan­u­ary, 1991 to March, 1995 in the First Tri­con­ti­nen­tal Meet­ing of Hair Research Soci­eties in Brussels.

This study was per­formed from April, 1995 to Decem­ber, 2000. Among 854 new alope­cia OPD patients 161(19.0%) were chil­dren under 15 year old with alope­cia (A. areata: 118, A. totalis: 32, A. uni­ver­salis: 10 and tri­chotil­lo­ma­nia: 2) Results were as follows:

1) The aver­age age of alope­cia in chil­dren was 7.8 years, and 55.9% were pri­mary school stu­dents.
2) The most com­mon type of alope­cia in chil­dren was alope­cia areata (73.3%).
3) The pre­vi­ous episodes of alope­cia were observed in 12.4%, and fam­ily his­tory was observed in 6.8%.
4) Atopic der­mati­tis was the most com­mon asso­ci­ated dis­ease (23.0%).
5) The eldest sib­ling or the chil­dren with stress­ful con­di­tion due to school task and extracuric­u­lar works had high mor­bid­ity (45.3%, 29.1%, respec­tively).
6) On the neu­ropsy­chi­atric con­sul­ta­tion, psy­chi­atri­cally prob­lem­atic cases were observed in 51.7%, and neu­rotic chil­dren and adjust­ment dis­or­ders were the most com­mon prob­lems among them.

These results sug­gest that alope­cia in chil­dren was pre­dom­i­nantly devel­oped in pri­mary school stu­dents, the eldest sib­ling, chil­dren with atopic der­mati­tis or defi­cient parent-child relationship.

Psy­cho­logic stress is an impor­tant fac­tor in the devel­op­ment of the hair loss dis­ease or may con­tribute as an aggra­vat­ing factor.

Cost of hair restoration

August 20th, 2010

Depend­ing on your hair loss sit­u­a­tion, the cost of a hair trans­plant can vary from per­son to per­son. For some, the cost of a hair trans­plant is a major con­cern. Espe­cially is these times of eco­nomic cri­sis, spend­ing thou­sands of dol­lars on a cos­metic pro­ce­dure may seem a lit­tle extreme.

A piece of advice I would give would be to do some thor­ough research when it comes to hair trans­plant cost. Due to the pop­u­lar­ity of hair trans­plant surgery and the advances in tech­niques of fol­lic­u­lar unit graft tech­nol­ogy, the mar­ket is flooded with spe­cial low prices for hair trans­plant grafts.

Although the cost of a hair trans­plant surgery may seem extreme to many, you have to con­sider the long term invest­ment it will have on your self esteem and the results are for a life­time. If you have suf­fered from hair loss, and you are read­ing this, you know what the feel­ing is like. You may ask your­self, “where do I start ” when decid­ing on hair trans­plant cost. I real­ize cost is an issue, but you have to con­sider that what you pay now will only affect you in the short term. Sure, you want to look for the low­est price, but also keep in mind that your hair trans­plant surgery is per­ma­nent. If you try and save a few bucks and skimp a lit­tle, you may get a ‘not so impres­sive’ out­come. Most hair trans­plants are pretty good these days, so don’t get too scared. The doll-head like result is still seen at times in a town near you, but it is not so com­mon any­more. This type of surgery has really advanced in the last 10 to 15 years. The best hair trans­plant surg­eries are the pro­ce­dures that you never rec­og­nize. You don’t rec­og­nize the trans­plant because its looks so natural.

Now, sev­eral fac­tors can con­tribute to the cost of a hair trans­plant. One fac­tor would be the num­ber of ses­sions you want to have. The sec­ond fac­tor would be the type of pro­ce­dure used. Third, hair trans­plant cost may be deter­mined by where you have the pro­ce­dure. For exam­ple, the cost of a hair trans­plant may be more expen­sive if the surgery is per­formed by a hair restora­tion clinic. These clin­ics carry more of an over­head to run. Con­trar­ily, if you have the pro­ce­dure done by a doc­tor or sur­geon who is in pri­vate prac­tice, it may cost less due to the lower over­head. This will ulti­mately trans­late to a con­sid­er­able sav­ings to the client.

Over­all cost of a hair trans­plant actu­ally varies on each client’s par­tic­u­lar hair loss sit­u­a­tion. This also has to be cou­pled with real­is­tic expec­ta­tions to the client. Keep­ing the real­is­tic expec­ta­tions in mind, the cost can be as lit­tle as $2,500 all the way up to $9,000 price range. Most doc­tors’ will pitch or sell you on price per graft, which will usu­ally run between $3 to $8 price ranges. Remem­ber, each graft can con­tain 1,2,3, or 4 hairs. The aver­age price for most doc­tors is typ­i­cally $5 to $6 per graft.
Let us look at the big pic­ture of hair trans­plant cost. Many men and women spend hun­dreds of dol­lars a year on hair pre­ven­tion prod­ucts such as Rogaine and Prope­cia. These prod­ucts can be effec­tive in some peo­ple, but the results will be lost if you dis­con­tinue tak­ing these prod­ucts. Many peo­ple opt for non-surgical pro­ce­dures such as hair sys­tems, hair weaves, wigs, and other non-surgical solu­tions. The major­ity of the pop­u­la­tion sup­ports the opin­ion that, hair trans­plant surgery is the most attrac­tive option because it was the only per­ma­nent solu­tion, and it looks natural.

Unnatural Pluggy Hairline

April 27th, 2010

Old Style grafts are cir­cu­lar pieces of scalp con­tain­ing any­where from 7–15 hair fol­li­cles. This old-fashioned tech­nique, is not typ­i­cally used today, how­ever some­times they are com­bined with smaller min­i­grafts and micro­grafts to cre­ate a more nat­ural appear­ance. Since the 1970’s through the 1980’s hair trans­plan­ta­tion with Old Style grafts, or “plugs” as they are com­monly referred to, was the stan­dard method of sur­gi­cal hair restora­tion. Presently most hair trans­plants are accom­plished with min­i­grafts and micro­grafts alone. This tech­nique is also used to revise unsightly hair­lines caused by old tech­niques such as “plugs”.

Revi­sion of the hair line can be restored by a sur­gi­cal hair restora­tion sur­geon, with immense prac­tice of today’s inno­v­a­tive tech­niques. Meth­ods such as, stereo­scopic micro­scope dis­sect­ing gives sur­geons a greatly enlarged and, there­fore com­pletely clear view of the struc­ture of your hair and the way it is placed in its nat­ural state. This enables sur­geons to work with great pre­ci­sion between each fol­lic­u­lar unit and pre­serve not only the hair but also its vital struc­tures such as the seba­ceous glands and the hair roots. With­out the stereo­scopic micro­scope, there is a dan­ger that the sur­geon could cut through some of the hairs vital struc­tures and dam­age them in the process. Grafts trans­planted with the stereo­scopic micro­scope will be health­ier and there­fore will grow more vig­or­ously.

History of Hair Transplantation by San Diego Hair Restoration

April 5th, 2010

The roots of mod­ern day were cul­ti­vated in Japan in the late 1930s. In 1939, Japan­ese der­ma­tol­o­gist Dr. Okuda detailed his ground­break­ing work in sur­gi­cal hair restora­tion for burn vic­tims. He described using a punch tech­nique to extract round sec­tions of hair-bearing skin, which were then implanted into slightly smaller round holes made in the scarred or burned areas of the scalps of his patients. After the skin grafts healed, they con­tin­ued to pro­duce hair in the pre­vi­ously bald areas of scalp. In 1943 another Japan­ese der­ma­tol­o­gist refined Okuda’s tech­nique by using sig­nif­i­cantly smaller grafts of one to three hairs to replace lost pubic hair in his female patients.

In 1952, Dr. Nor­man Oren­tre­ich, a New York der­ma­tol­o­gist, per­formed the first known hair trans­plant in the U.S. on a man suf­fer­ing from male pat­tern bald­ing. Oren­tre­ich essen­tially rein­vented modern-day hair transplantation.

Seven years later, after much crit­i­cism, Oren­tre­ich pub­lished his find­ings and set forth his the­ory of “donor dom­i­nance” in the Annals of the New York Acad­emy of Sci­ences. His work demon­strated that the hair from the back and the sides of a man’s scalp was for the most part resis­tant to the bald­ing process. How­ever, his tech­nique mir­rored the less aes­thet­i­cally “punch graft” process of Okuda instead of the more nat­ural, smaller graft­ing tech­nique of Tamura.

It wasn’t until the mid 1990s that sur­gi­cal hair restora­tion pro­duced natural-looking results. Newer tech­niques, such as fol­lic­u­lar unit micro graft­ing, fol­lic­u­lar unit trans­plan­ta­tion, and fol­lic­u­lar unit extrac­tion, have made hair trans­plan­ta­tion a vir­tu­ally unde­tectable, viable option for many.

Women and hair restoration

January 19th, 2010

Women expe­ri­enc­ing hair loss may have feel­ings of anx­i­ety and help­less­ness that could lead to men­tal dis­tress. Despite what you may think, as a woman — you do have options. Hair restora­tion is an option many women are opt­ing to undergo to cor­rect their hair loss and regain nat­ural healthy hair. Fol­lic­u­lar unit graft­ing is the most advance method being used in hair restora­tion to pin­point pre­ci­sion grafts in terms of place­ment. Each fol­lic­u­lar unit can con­tain up to four hairs. The sin­gle hair grafts are placed at the fore­front of the scalp, which cre­ates a very nat­ural appear­ance. The rest of the grafts are placed slightly behind the fore­front sin­gle hair grafts to cre­ate a dense and pro­found look on the female scalp.

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