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Question:Is it possible for a guy to grow long hair after a hair transplant, long enough to wear a ponytail? Before and after pictures never show guys with long hair. Answer:Yes, it is possible for a patient who had a hair transplant to allow the hair to grow to a length where a ponytail could […]

Question:If I wear my hair very short is FUE the best option for me? Answer:Follicular Unit Excision (FUE) can be good in people who wear short hair or long hair. Just because a patient has short hair prior to considering a hair transplantation procedure would not mean that FUE would be the only proper procedure […]

Question:How do you avoid having a hair transplant the looks obvious? Answer:The days of obvious hair transplants are slowly going away because the newer and more innovative techniques used in hair transplantation now lead to much more undetectable results. I still, however, think it is important that a patient look around and ask the opinions […]

Question:If a woman gets a hair transplant are there any special considerations as to how she has to have her hair styled after surgery? Can she grow her hair long? Answer:The postoperative care for both men and women is the same. Generally, females have longer hair prior to the hair transplant procedure and can therefore […]

Question:What leads to a wide donor scar and how can this be avoided? Answer:Wide donor scars are usually the result of a wound that is closed with too much tension along the upper and lower edges of the wound. In hair transplantation, this can occur when the donor strip is removed for the transplantation procedure. […]

Question:Why are the results of hair transplantation permanent? Why isn’t the transplanted hair prone to thinning or balding as it is you own hair? Answer:The reason why hair transplantation is for the most part permanent is that in the patient who is genetically susceptible to male pattern baldness and/or genetic alopecia the hair follicles in […]

Question:Many men seem to experience hair loss due mainly to hereditary reasons. What are some of the reasons women experience hair loss? Answer:Women can experience hair loss genetically and this is relatively common, much more common than the general public realizes. Women also tend to experience hair loss more commonly than men due to hormone […]

Question:How many laser light or LLLT treatments are needed to be effective in stopping hair loss? Answer:Currently there is no exact protocol that can determine how many treatments will be necessary to slow down the hair loss pattern associated with androgenetic alopecia and/or male pattern baldness or female genetic hair loss and/or female pattern baldness. […]

Question:How significantly faster or improved is healing associated with PRP? Answer:Since platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy is relatively new and has only been used in hair transplantation for less then one year at this time, we are unsure exactly how much faster and/or improved the wound healing is associated with the use of PRP in hair […]

Question:Does LLLT stop hair loss or does it actually work to regrow hair loss? Answer:Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is used to try and help prevent hair loss, try and help promote hair growth and to promote wound healing as well as quicker hair growth with less shock loss following hair transplantation procedures. We do know […]