Donor Scar After Hair Transplant
Hair restoration surgery through follicular unit transplantation is the golden standard for hair transplants to date. This procedure is designed to fully recreate a natural looking hairline and add density or restore lost hair caused by male or female pattern baldness. The only concerning factor of this technique is the scar that remains after the…
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How is Finasteride used if My Wife Is Pregnant
We are getting another question on the Propecia use in men whom their wives are pregnant. A hair loss patient just asked about possible side effects that finasteride (Propecia) may cause. He has read on the manufacturer’s instructions that broken tablets must not be handled by women who are or may become pregnant. “Can finasteride…
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Hair Transplant – The Solution for Transgenders
“How can a male hairline be converted to a female pattern?” Although not always a very typical question or request, it is generally an issue most male to female transgender patients have to deal with. This is usually due to maturation of the hairline which may include recession of the frontal corners in mature male…
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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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What is Maturation of Hairline?
There is a great difference in hair design between a child and an adult. Most notably is that between a boy and a man. As men get older, the hairline takes on a different design. This is known as maturation of the hairline. Many young men in their early 20s come to our California Hair…
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Preventing Male Pattern Baldness
A patient from India once wrote to me in regards to preventing male pattern baldness. He is 18 years old and has noticed that his hair is falling very rapidly. He also noted that he fears that his diet might also be playing a role in his hair loss since he finds himself to be…
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Effects of UV Radiation on Hair
In a recent article published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology (January 2009), the Department of Dermatology at the University of L’beck in L’beck, Germany and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China had shown that excessive exposure to UV radiation is among the most harmful environmental influences on human skin. There have been findings that direct…
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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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What to Expect After Four Months from Hair Transplantation
We had a patient from a different hair restoration clinic that had a few concerns about his hair transplant results. He underwent hair transplant in September of 2008 and mentions that sometime in November he started trimming his hair avoiding the transplanted area and then started trimming all areas to help him monitor his progress.…
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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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Hair Transplants and Hollywood California
It is not uncommon for us to receive emails asking about celebrity hair loss and hair transplants. Many within the media or regular fans will usually ask a hair transplant surgeon about their favorite actor or actress and whether or not they have had a hair transplant procedure with us or elsewhere. This is all…
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Causes of Unsuccessful Hair Transplantation
Many hair restoration clinics can easily boast about their successful hair transplants but what about the ones that did not have optimal result? I received an email from a patient whom had a hair transplant at a different clinic. His hair never grew in the transplanted area even after having followed all the post op…
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Patchy Hair Loss
We received an email from one of our overseas patients in regards to his patchy hair loss. He describes that he has experienced these episodes since the age of 12 years. He is now 36 years old. They had attested his patchy hair loss to Alopecia Areata (AA) but his hair loss which was seen…
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Sex Drive and Propecia Use
Q: I am 30 now and I have been losing my hair since I was 18. I started taking finasteride last year and seen great result after taking it for only a few months. I think I may have been experiencing some side effects. The thing is I noticed that it might have affected my…
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California Hair Transplant
Many of our patients and the readers of our hair transplant blog often ask about celebrity hair transplants, their hair loss problems and hair restoration. California and in particular Los Angeles and Hollywood is the place for celebrities so hearing questions on celebrity hair transplantation is not unusual. We will not be able to reveal…
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What to Expect for Four Months after Hair Transplant
We answer to our patients and other patients who underwent or planning to undergo a hair transplant surgery in our hair restoration blog. Here is one of the question from a patient who has hair transplant around four months ago. Patient is anxious to see growth of his transplanted hair as soon as possible. He…
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Hair Loss Products
What is the best hair loss product? We are hearing many things about new hair loss products every day. Many contain active ingredients that may help hair, some don’t have anything for hair loss treatment and some may be harmful for your hair. Here is what one of my patients asked me and I answered…
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Other California Hair Transplant clinics – Bakersfield
Bakersfield, California: US Hair Restoration hair transplant clinic soon will start its first clinic in the city of Bakersfield in California. US Hair Restoration already has three other locations at Encino, Beverly Hills and Orange County. Dr. Parsa Mohebi the medical director of US Hair Restoration stated that since we are getting many patients for…
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Happy New Year from Dr. Mohebi
Happy New Year from US Hair Restoration I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year! Last year was a year of great achievements for our hair restoration offices in Orange County and Los Angeles area in Southern California. We are pleased to announce that we continued our research in hair loss treatment…
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Women Hair Loss During Pregnancy
I have been often asked this hair loss question on alopecia areata and other hair loss disorders during pregnancy in our Los Angeles hair transplant and Orange County hair restoration clinics. Here is one more female hair loss question about alopecia areata during pregnancy. The question is coming from one of my patients from our…
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