{"id":1735,"date":"2012-12-07T11:44:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2012-12-26T11:47:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T18:47:41","slug":"ethics-of-hair-transplant-at-an-early-age-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/ethics-of-hair-transplant-at-an-early-age-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics of Hair Transplant at an Early Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psychological Considerations<\/h2>\n

There are many things that can adversely affect a person\u2019s self image and consequently their self esteem. Medical science recognizes with certainty that these two factors directly impact our quality of life. Hair loss affects millions of people men and women. Amongst this\u00a0 group of people there is a number of individuals who undergo male pattern baldness at a very early age. The emotional impact on these individuals can be even more devastating.. Today\u00a0we have more insight to the negative consequences of hair loss and that fact it can be prevented in many cases.<\/p>\n

Study on Hair Loss Psychological Affects<\/h2>\n

“Psychology of hair restoration surgery”<\/strong> is a study that was presented in 15th annual scientific meeting of Internal Society of Hair Restoration Surgery in 2007. In this study we sent\u00a0questionnaires\u00a0to 200 men who had only one hair\u00a0transplant\u00a0in past and we asked them about the psycho-social aspects of their lives following their procedures.\u00a0 We have compared the responses from\u00a0the patients with higher classes of hair loss with early stages.\u00a0 We also compared the changes that younger patients experienced in comparison to the older ones. \u00a0We have found a significant improvement\u00a0in future outlook in younger patients who received a hair restoration as opposed to the older ones.\u00a0I am attaching the graph right off the presentation I had back in 2007 that compares the impacts of a hair\u00a0restoration\u00a0on younger patients vs. older ones.<\/p>\n

\"Psychology<\/p>\n

Advanced Evaluation<\/h2>\n

Hair transplant surgeons used to have a strict criteria in past as of strictly not perform a hair transplant on anyone younger than 24.\u00a0 However, today there are more treatment options, as well as, more documentation on the long term effects of hair restoration medications.\u00a0 Hair restoration doctors did not want to do a hair transplant until they can clearly see the pattern of baldness.\u00a0 Modern miniaturization study with microscopic evaluation allows for more accurate predictability along with other evaluating factors.\u00a0 This gives us a reasonably reliable way to predict the activity of hair loss in different areas with some certainty. We can predict the final pattern of male patterned baldness (MPB) utilizing the patient\u2019s miniaturization study in addition to a thorough evaluation of his family hair loss history.<\/p>\n

Ethics of Hair Transplant at a young age<\/h3>\n

I recognize as many people have mentioned that there has been unethical practices in some instances. As medical doctors we must hold to the highest of ethical standards and best practices. Performing a hair transplant when the miniaturization study and the psychological profile does indicate would be a breach of these standards. I appreciate the feedback in this forum and plan to write an article on the indications and specifications of\u00a0\u201cEarly Intervention for Hair Transplant Surgery” soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psychological Considerations There are many things that can adversely affect a person\u2019s self image and consequently their self esteem. Medical science recognizes with certainty that these two factors directly impact our quality of life. Hair loss affects millions of people men and women. Amongst this\u00a0 group of people there is a number of individuals who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[547,37,480,21,549],"tags":[576,599,390,16],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-parsa-mohebi","category-hair-transplant","category-los-angeles-hair-transplant-2","category-men-hair-restoration","category-us-hair-restoration-2","tag-hair-restoration-psychology","tag-hair-transplant","tag-psychology-of-hair-transplant","tag-us-hair-restoration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}