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Like all hair graft removal techniques, the linear excision method has its advantages and disadvantages. One of the greatest pros with the linear excision hair removal method is more hair follicles are left intact for future hair transplants.
Posted: 2010-05-20
Category: Hair Loss
Hair restoration surgery, including hair transplants, requires donor hair to meet specific requirements. Certain limitations prevent patients from being hair transplant candidates.
Posted: 2010-05-13
Category: Hair Loss
Hair loss is relatively common in women with about 30% experiencing at least some degree of thinning in their lifetime. Because female hair loss tends to be diffuse and the fact that the frontal hairline in women is often maintained, there is a misconception that hair loss in women is rare - but it is not.
Posted: 2010-04-15
Category: Women's Issues
The Norwood classification of hair loss establishes major patterns of baldness and even less common types of hair loss in men. These classifications help determine the best treatment.
Posted: 2010-04-08
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Millions of men and women deal with the reality of hair loss and balding. The millions of myths surrounding the issue only complicate things further.
Posted: 2010-04-01
Category: Hair Loss
The direction a hair follicle grows on the scalp will remain the same, even after the follicle is removed during a hair transplant. Hairs should be re-positioned in the same direction.
Posted: 2010-03-18
Category: Hair Loss
Noticeable scarring is an unfavorable, yet quite common, side-effect of a hair transplant. A skilled hair restoration surgeon can help repair scars from earlier procedures.
Posted: 2010-03-11
Category: Hair Loss
Angling and weighing refer to two of the many tools used by hair restoration surgeons when performing a follicular unit transplant.
Posted: 2010-03-04
Category: Hair Loss
Though no longer performed with any frequency, scalp reductions that have been performed in the past can be repaired with modern hair restoration techniques.
Posted: 2010-02-18
Category: Hair Loss
Many patients who have had hair transplants many years ago and are unsatisfied with the results can benefit from today's hair restoration technology.
Posted: 2010-02-03
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Many factors affect the harvest site and amount of hair that can be used during a hair transplant, including the pattern of baldness.
Posted: 2009-12-17
Category: Hair Loss
One of the largest hair loss patient benefits to the Follicular Unit Transplantation method of hair restoration is a healthier and quicker wound healing process, producing a more natural looking result.
Posted: 2009-12-10
Category: Hair Loss
Recent advancements in hair transplant technology have made improving the results of a previous hair restoration surgery possible, including reducing the appearance of scarring.
Posted: 2009-12-03
Category: Hair Loss
A surgeon's eye for aesthetics is a very important factor in achieving natural looking results from hair transplant surgery.
Posted: 2009-11-19
Category: Arts & Entertainment
After more than a quarter century of evolution and innovation in the hair restoration process, Dr. Bernstein examines if hair transplant surgery has reached the end of technological and scientific breakthrough.
Posted: 2009-11-12
Category: Hair Loss
