Category: women hair loss
Things to Know About Female Hair Restoration
What is the difference between female and male hair loss? Female hair loss is not as common as male hair loss. Male hair loss is known as male patterned baldness. Female hair loss usually doesn’t lead to complete baldness like male hair loss. Female hair loss could be known more as thinning. Female Patterned Baldness…
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How Can I Tell How Much My Hair is Thinning?
A miniaturization study is very important in order to know what the level of hair miniaturization is for the patient. Using this method, the Doctor can also know what rate the hair is thinning. The hair restoration surgeon can compare the hair loss area to the individual’s normal healthy hair. The hormone that causes hair…
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SCALP MICROPIGMENTATION (SMP)
SCALP Tattooing SMP- scalp micro pigmentation is a cosmetic hair restoration procedure where the patients scalp is tatooed with ink to create the illusion of shaved hair or hair stubble. This is a method sometimes preferred by bald men who are seeking an alternative to hair transplant surgery or to augment hair transplant surgery. Performed…
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Women Hair Loss Treatments
Women’s Hair Restoration and Women Hair Loss Treatments Parsa Mohebi, MD is among Los Angeles best hair restoration doctors. He notes that hair transplants are increasing among women. This includes scalp hair transplant for balding areas, improving the hairline to better frame the face and eyebrow hair transplants. As women continue to advance in the…
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Shock Loss After Hair Transplantation
We receive a lot of questions at US Hair Restoration about the use of Minoxidil (Rogaine), and how it affects hair growth after a hair transplant procedure. There are mixed reviews people find on the internet through different websites and blogs about the Foam version of Rogaine. Some say it helps hair growth, others say…
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Family History and Hair Loss
The fact is, we are genetically predisposed in many ways. Our physical makeup may favor one parent over another, but as we become more acquainted with different family members on both sides, we start to find common traits with various members from our families. Though one parental side may be more dominate over the other,…
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About Hair Loss
Hair loss and hair thinning is a result of testosterone formed in different areas like the prostate gland or hair follicles, which is converted to Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in the scalp area. Hair follicles prone to genetic male patterned baldness contain DHT receptors, thus thinning hair and loss of hair can result. Over time men produce…
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Hair Loss Compared to Hair Shedding
Many patients that come in to my office have a common complaint; hair shedding (some even bring in a ball of hair they have collected from their brush and bathroom floor) and in most cases they are women with long hair. For the most part hair shedding alone is not a sign of hair loss.…
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Holiday Special on Hair Transplants with Standby Option
Hello blog readers, I have some great news about US Hair Restoration’s current hair transplant costs!! As the result of a recent meeting between my staff members and I, there will now be a Holiday Special beginning on December 1, 2010 at US Hair Restoration. This special will be offered for an extremely limited time…
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Congenital Temporal Alopecia – Hair Restoration
The other day, we just completed a hair transplant procedure with a child who has Congenital Temporal Alopecia (CTA). The day he was born, he had a bald patch on his head. It really weighed heavy on his mind and the thought of waiting until Christmas break (the time his parents had first planned to…
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Get Pretty Eyebrows: Talika
Q: For thicker eyebrows, Talika hasn’t really worked for me. What’s a better treatment? A: There are lots of products which can be found in the cosmetic section, like Talika, which purport to thicken hair. These products, as far as long term solutions, are not really effective in thickening hair shafts or increasing their density.…
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Using Wound Healing as Strategy for Hair Growth
In the latest issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine, a new research study was published: “A Rare Complication: New Hair Growth Around Healing Wounds.” This study is related to Dr. Mohebi’s personal research at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute on gene therapy techniques and wound healing and how it affected the growth of mice hair.…
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Hair Restoration Using Artificial Hair
There was an article I came across about artificial hair transplantation. The practice of artificial hair or synthetic hair transplantation to treat hair loss or androgenetic alopecia has yet to be approved by the FDA. But, in other countries, artificial hair restoration is being attempted. In addition, in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, there was…
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Scalp Med – Hair Loss Treatment or Scam?
Q: Dear Parsa Mohebi, I hope you’re doing great. I hope you also remember me – it’s —-. I visited your office in January in Mission Viejo, California. I am currently in Dubai! Thank you for the letter which you sent me regarding the tests I should take. I appreciate the time you took out…
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Alopecia Totalis
Q: I am a 26-year-old woman.Not too long ago, I felt as if I owned the world. Then I got alopecia totalis, and now I’d rather hide, so I understand what it feels like to be a freak. But, remember, we have nothing to be ashamed about. This condition is more widespread than we think…
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Biotin Hair Loss Supplement
Hair loss supplement Biotin is vitamin H (B7) with the chemical formula C10H15N2O3S (you don’t have to memorize it!). It is a water-soluble B-vitamin complex. B-vitamins or Biotin is necessary for healthy cell growth, the metabolism of fats and amino acids, and the production of fatty acids. It plays a role in the acid cycle…
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Hair Transplantation for Hair Line Lowering in Women
A recent patient of ours is looking into lowering her hairline to give her a more feminine and youthful frame for her face. She was a bit concerned when she read on our site that not many female hair loss patients are good candidates for hair restoration surgery. Her concerns also included the probability of…
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New Hair Loss Product for Longer and Fuller Eyelashes
Latisse is the name of a new medication that is used for elongation of eyelashes. As a glaucoma medication, biatoprost has been available, used and prescribed to control the progression of glaucoma and to manage ocular hypertension. It is also designed to reduce intraocular pressure. Although biatoprost does what it is designed to do, one…
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Patchy Hair Loss or Alopecia Areata
One of our readers who is in her 30s has asked about Alopecia Areata or AA. She says she has been using may different treatment either medical or herbal for her patchy hair loss in the last 20 years. She continues as: Hairs goes in patches from all over the body including eye brow and…
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Herbal Hair Loss Product
In a recent article published in the European Journal of Dermatology, a group in Kang et has been working with a native plant known as Schisandra Nigra. This plant is native to the Jeju Island in South Korea and is being evaluated for its rumored effects on hair by natives. The study is being conducted…
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