Planning a Hair Transplant in the future.
I have a large forehead that will not look good without a framing of hair.
I am quite happy having short hair as long as I can have a frame of hair around my face.
So I am prepared to have less density and minimal coverage of the crown if ever needed
to make sure I can still frame my face.
Since I am preparing for the future, I am prepared to have multiple surgeries as needed
as I can start saving now.
Is it possible to talk with a HT doctor to discuss my options and how realistic I can
be?
Thank you for your question!
You have submitted a question with an understanding that you will need more than one transplant
and you are being very rational and strategic in your thought process.
And so, as far as what to do about your hair transplant plants, I’m actually going to
introduce you to something that may be a benefit for you even if you choose to move forward
with hair transplant.
What is clear is your recognition that hair loss is an ongoing process.
Hair thinning or male pattern hair loss is basically a genetic pattern that has a variable
age of onset based on your family history and rate or progression which means that for
every patient who gets a hair transplant, there is an invariably a time where they need
another transplant and it depends on the patient’s desire.
But this frustrates anyone who wants to solve the problem of hair loss because there is
a mismatch between the donor and the area that needs hair.
In our practice, we have been very fortunate in developing a method called Hair Regeneration.
Hair Regeneration is the use of material called extracellular matrix.
When combined with platelet-rich plasma, in a way that we developed, when injected into
the scalp can actually reverse hair thinning.
In may sound too good to be true but we have over 5 years of data to support its efficacy.
It’s a onetime treatment and we have been able to establish and a lot of data based
on hundreds of patients that we treated who come to us from around the world.
The bottom line is, as long as there is existing hair, there is a tremendous opportunity to
reverse thinning and get density that far exceeds in most cases depending on the number
of existing hairs, then the results, compared to the results of a hair transplant.
So in our practice, when someone comes in and wants a hair transplant, we say fine,
we can consider that.
But first, let’s evaluate you with a microscope and look at the potential for hair growth
for the number of hairs that we can see that can be thicker from Hair Regeneration.
What we’ll do is we’ll do the injection, we look at the results and follow people every
3 months all the way to 18 months . At which point we can be 99.99% sure that we’ve reached
the maximal potential.
There are some people that we re-inject because there are people who are more advanced and
benefit from another injection.
That being said, the amount of growth can be dramatic and we are always impressed by
the response that our patients get.
And it seems to be trend that the younger and earlier onset, someone who has hair loss
and they come when they notice it, the more volume we are able to achieve.
But we treated people as young as 18 and as old as people who are 70.
And consistently, every male pattern hair loss essentially has some kind of benefit
in that we stop the progression and we get thickening of hair.
In fact, we even get a lot of people with white hair, very white hair, coming back with
darker hair.
So there appears to be some benefit in reversal of hair grain.
But that being said, that strategy may help you in planning out hair transplantation to
frame your face so that you have more hair and density and you may need as many transplants
as you’re prepared to have.
So, learn more about Hair Regeneration, learn more about the medical treatments which I
did not mention but you’re probably already aware of finasteride and minoxidil.
And with that understanding, I think you have more choices besides doing this standard approach
that’s been going on for 30 plus years of doing hair transplant until you run out of
donor area.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question!