Question: What does it mean if the donor area for a hair transplant is thin? Does it mean the hair itself is thin?
Answer: It simply means for the standard given donor area a particular patient has fewer hairs to donate than the average. It has nothing to do with the thiness or thickness of the individual hairs.
Question: Is it normal during a hair transplant for the doctor not to be the one implanting the hair, for nurses or techs to be doing it instead?
Answer: In most offices of doctors that do hair transplant work ( if not all ), the transplantation of the retrieved hair is placed into the holes and design distribution of the surgeon by highly trained hair technicians, almost never by the surgeon and rarely by nurses.
Posted February, 02/14/2012 - 18:15 PM in Hair Loss
Question: I'm 42, about a Norwood 2 or 3. One doctor quoted 3500 grafts and that seems really high to me. Does that sound about right?
Answer: All graft quotes are estimations regardless of what loss scale you seem analogous to. Head size, scalp mobility, and hair type (thickness) all play into these estimations causing a wide range.
Posted February, 02/13/2012 - 17:57 PM in Hair Loss
Question: I've had some hair loss ever since chemically relaxing my hair. Is it likely relaxing the hair is the cause? Is there a chance the hair will grow back or is a hair transplant a viable option?
Answer: Most likely the loss was from damage during the relaxing process. I would wait 9 months before considering a transplant and hopefully the problem will correct itself without surgery.
Question: I'm a body builder and as I've gotten in better shape, my face has become more gaunt looking, particularly my cheeks. I'm not thin or skinny, I'm actually very fit and in excellent shape. Is there some sort of procedure that could add some bulk back to my cheeks, perhaps cheek augmentation. I'm a guy so I don't want to look feminine.
Answer: Most body builders who workout seriously have very little body fat and that shows in the face sometimes as a gaunt appearence. If you add cheek bones (implants) you will actually make the problem worse, giving yourself an even bonier look. The solution is to go with a facial filler like Sculptra, Radiennse, or Juviderm.
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