May 09 - May 15, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Woods: Repair of Repair of Pluggy, Uneven and Scarred Hairline with FUE. This is a repair case with 2000 FUE grafts. Dr. Woods soften the pluggy, uneven and scarred hairline of this patient after 3 sessions. The repair was done by utilizing nape hair, chest and abdominal hair. None of the prior pluggy grafts were removed in the process. You can also see the chest donor pictures in this discussion.

May 09 - May 15, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: Body Hair Transplant Megasession 5000 Grafts on the Crown Grown Out Results plus Amazing Leg Hair to Anterior Temples 2.5 Months Results. This is the first body hair transplant megasession grown out results posted in the forum. The patient had about 5000 BHT grafts placed into 80 square cm of bald crown. The result is exceptionally natural with very respectable yield. This discussion also features an attempt to lower the patient’s hairline with about 1700 grafts of leg hair as well as a 2.5 month post op results from leg hair transplanted into the anterior temples.

May 09 - May 15, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Woods: 5,500 FUE/BHT grafts, 4 Weeks Results, Grafts Started Growing Immediately Post Op . 4 weeks post op photos of a Norwood 6 patient who had received 2,500 scalp donor hair and 3,000 chest and abdominal/loin hair. Total of 5,500 grafts. The last session was 10 days ago to the frontal hairline. The scabs were removed immediately prior to these photographs being taken, hence the minor pinkness to the frontal hairline. Abdominal hair was placed to the crown 2 weeks ago prior to these photographs. A close up shot is provided and some of the scabs are still present. There is good growth right from the start. All graft hair shafts were 1 to 2 mm in length. As is clearly seen, many hair have extended by several millimeters since the procedure.

May 09 - May 15, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Combination of a Dense Packed Hairline with Hair Piece Behind Using Body Hair Transplantation, 1500 grafts. Norwood 6 patient underwent a 1500 graft BHT session. The grafts are being extracted from the thighs and the calves of the patient. The plan is to place 1500 body hair grafts this time round to create a narrow but dense hairline zone. Patient’s intention is to continue to wear the hair piece after this 1500 grafts procedure.

May 02 - May 08, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Body Hair Transplant Wet Zone Harvesting. Donor Site photos. A small discussion about wet zone harvesting with photos illustration by Dr. Arvind. Photos show donor sites from the abdomen, pubic and armpit areas.

May 02 - May 08, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Recipient Site Grafts Placement and Angulation: an in-depth discussion. Excellent discussion about grafts placement and angulation in the recipient site. Discussion include using slits and blades in the coronal plane and the sagittal plane. Very educational, informative and somewhat technical for the average poster.

Apr 25 - May 01, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: HairSite’s First Documented Case of Donor Exchange Method (DEM), over 1000 Body Hair grafts used in Donor Site. Multi-modules treatments and HairSite’s first documented case of Donor Exchange Method utilizing over 1000 body hair grafts on the patient’s donor site.  1.Closing of the temples- 2628 FUSE/fue grafts used in the front hairline and temple areas to create a dense pack hairline as well as to close the temple angles.  2.Donor exchange (DEM)- over1000 body hair grafts used for putting into the scalp donor areas-1048 DEM grafts to be precise. The grafts were randomly distributed in the scalp donor areas. The body hair used for DEM were from the thighs and the calves.  3.He had got a strip surgery done previously and the strip scar was also transplanted into. 255 scalp FUSE grafts were used for the purpose.

Apr 25 - May 01, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: One of the Best Crown Restoration Results with Only 700 grafts.This Norwood 5a – 6 presented his case to Dr. Cole back in 1997. At that time Dr. Cole was one of a small group of hair restoration surgeons performing total microscopic follicular unit hair transplantation. The patient followed-up with two more surgeries in early 2004 – one a microscopic FUT strip session for the frontal and mid sections and the other a 700 graft FIT/FUE procedure to address the crown. This is one of the best documented case of crown restoration utilizing only 700 grafts.

Apr 25 - May 01, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: In-depth discussion about grafts placement and angulation in the recipient site. It is possible to get follicular unit grafts and still not get natural looking results in the recipient areas. It will be helpful to know why that may happen so that patients, in conjunction with their doctors, can avoid such a scenario. This is an excellent illustration by Dr. Arvind showing where and how the angles of the recipient sites change as one proceeds from the hairline to the temples.

Apr 25 - May 01, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Jones: FUE into Strip Scar, 250 Grafts, 1 Year Result .Successful scar repair by Dr. Jones using only 250 FUE grafts. This patient has a fairly unsightly linear scar in the back of his head, typical of some strip hair transplant procedures. This is yet another illustration of how a few hundreds FUE grafts can make a very nice camouflage in the donor site.

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Umar: Body Hair Transplant Methodology: Anagen Hair Selection. Some Body hair transplant (BHT) practitioners have already adopted in their methodology, the harvesting of only actively growing hair for BHT purposes. This idea is premised on the supposition that even more anagen hair would be derived for transplantation by this approach. The popular modality used to achieve this has entailed so far, shaving the body donor area several days before harvesting. We conducted a cursory study to put this assumption to the test.

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Woods & NHI: Comparing FUE Donor Site Photos.A recent discussion comparing FUE donor sites between The Woods Technique and NHI.

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: FUE Donor Sites, Up Close & Personal Using Donor Sealant Technique. This discussion focuses on the appearance of the donor areas where Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) has been performed and the Donor Sealant protocol has been followed.  Different scenarios have been presented:

1. the donor area has been shaved (hair being 1 mm or less)
2. the grafts/FUs have been densely extracted. 20-30 FUs have been extracted per sq cm.

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: Results of 400 FIT/FUE grafts on an African-American patient. This patient’s pictures were taken one year after his initial procedure of only 400 FUE grafts into the temple areas. Here is a classic example of the “less is more” phenomenon and it also shows FIT/FUE results on a African-American patient. These grafts were extracted via Dr. Cole’s FIT/FUE method and, as usual, they have matured beautifully and healthily. This is a good example of what can be achieved when excellent hair characteristics meet ultra-refined surgical techniques. A former Norwood class 3a, this patient now enjoys a more flattering but still age-appropriate hairline.

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2005
Hair Transplant: Strip vs FUE, which provides more Grafts ? This is an interesting, yet controversial topic started by one of our forum members. Strip vs FUE, the never ending debate as to which is a more viable technique in hair transplant

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2005
Hair Transplant: Where Are They Now ? A thread started by one of our members aiming to track down people who had hair transplant done but never follow up with their results.

Apr 04 - Apr 10, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Repair Patient with 2300 FUE grafts, 11 months Post Op. A repair patient who had 2300 FUE grafts 11 months results. This patient has some mini grafts or plugs in the temporal recession areas. Grafts in these areas should ideally be excised but the patient did not want to touch them at the moment. Dr. Arvind’s team, therefore, only concentrated on the front half of his scalp. These pictures are taken when the patient came to Dr. Arvind’s clinic to have the grafts excised as well as to receive another 500 FUSE/FUE grafts placed in his crown area.

Apr 04 - Apr 10, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Repairing Minigrafts in the Temporal Areas with FUE Techniques. This is a patient who developed traction alopecia- loss of hair resulting from constant pulling and pressure exerted onto the scalp and hair.

He was previously administered rows of minigrafts and plugs in the front hairline and the temple areas by another doctor. Dismayed with the results, this patient convinced the original doctor to excise the plugs in the hairline. The plugs were excised in form of a strip which was then sutured closed. The temple area minigrafts, however, remained until this patient visited Dr. Arvind Poswal.

Apr 04 - Apr 10, 2005
Hair Transplant: Hair Transplant Patients Given the Right to Use a Trade Name for a Clinic They Want to Criticize. A former Bosley patient achieves justice against Bosley Medical. The transplant corporation proceeded with litigations due to the patient posting criticisms on the internet regarding his botched procedure, while the presiding judge ruled in his favor. Kremer's attorney, Paul Levy, said the decision "is an important victory for free speech on the Internet. It makes clear that consumers can use a trade name for a company they want to criticize."

Apr 04 - Apr 10, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: How Donor Sealing Works in FUE Donor Sites? The reason behind the success of donor sealing is that 1. It returns the pigment bearing cells back to the donor sites where they are required to avoid appearance of 'white dots'.  2. It helps in promoting healing of the extraction sites by making "healing by primary intention" possible.

In the FUSE extraction sites, since the wounds are round and close and many in number, traditional methods of healing by primary intention are not possible (except in the donor exchange method). Therefore, the extraction site will heal by collagen formation from the dermis upwards. This collagen is white in color and is responsible for the "white dots".

Donor sealing creates a virtual seal of pigment bearing epidermis on top of each of the extraction sites. The surrounding epidermis, joins the donor sealant to provide "healing by primary intention".

The deeper dermal layers do heal by secondary intention and do form collagen, but the pigmented epidermis on top of the extraction site makes sure that the collagen tissue remains below and is not visible.

Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2005
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Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2005
Hair Replacement: Ultra Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement - Farrell Hair Replacement changing lives on NBC's new reality TV show.  

Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2005
Hair Replacement: Ultra Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement - The FARRELL Difference, see how Farrell Hair Replacement differs from the rest in the industry.  

Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2005
Hair Replacement: Ultra Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement for people losing their hair due to medical conditions.  

Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2005
Hair Replacement: Ultra Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement - Howard Stern gives Farrell Hair Replacement a thumbs up. 

Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2005
Hair Replacement: Ultra Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement products review.  

Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2005
Hair Replacement: Ultra Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement innovator FARRELL featured in the Los Angeles Times. 

Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Body Hair Placement & Quantity for Optimal Results? An intriguing discussion about where and how many body hairs to place to get the best look in a transplant? Issues to factor in are: the Body Hair factors, followed by the need to address the scalp or the recipient area characteristics.

Mar 28 - Apr 03, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: 900 FIT/FUE Results into the Top Mid-section of the Scalp plus Plugs removal. This is a 900 graft session of CIT (FUE), the Cole Isolation Technique, to the top mid-section of the scalp. The hairline was not grafted. Rather, Dr. Cole began removing several large, "pluggy" looking grafts from the right side of the hairline. The crown was not grafted either. Patient was quite satisfied with the healing of the right frontal hair line without scarring following the removal of several of the very large noticeable 2, 3, and 4 hair grafts that were on the hair line. The patient now returns to Dr. Cole to remove many other large grafts from the hairline and to build a new hairline that is softer and more natural. this will blend well with the outstanding coverage he obtained from his relatively small first procedure.

Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: First Ever Donor Exchange method Performed on Topjimmy. The Donor Exchange Method appears as a logical course to follow for those who : 1. People who do not wish to use body hair over the bald recipient sites but have a degree of hairloss that is too severe to fill with the scalp donor hair alone. For these individuals this avenue opens the possibility of harvesting the scalp donor areas to a greater extent while still minimizing chances of visible thinning in the back of the scalp. 2. People who may have very thin and fine body hair growth. These individuals may like to use the very thin/fine hair in the scalp donor sites rather than the recipient/bald areas. The first patient to have such a procedure performed, albeit in a very limited way is a forum member- TopJimmy.

Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Shaving the Donor Site prior to Body Hair Transplant Procedures. According to Dr. Arvind, shaving the donor areas to get the actively growing hair is one of the keys to improved yield. This discussion attempts to analyze the reasons for efficacy of shaving. What if one were not to shave the donor areas? 1. Will it lead to the same yield/results albeit over a longer duration? 2. If yes, than what should be the extra time that will be required to notice most of the transplanted hair to start growing? 3. If no, should shaving the body donor areas be considered an important/essential requirement of body hair transplant. 4. In a patient where, for some reason, the body donor hair could not be shaved, is there an alternative way to determine which hair are the telogen/non growing hair?

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2005
Hair Replacement: Ultra Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement innovator FARRELL now servicing the UK & European Markets.

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2005
Hair Replacement: Ultra Custom Non-surgical  Hair Replacement -  FARRELL Re-engineered the Annual AHLC Hair Show. 

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2005
Hair Replacement: Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement for Women. No drugs, no surgery. 

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2005
Hair Replacement: FARRELL's Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement - CRITERIA for being ULTRA CUSTOM in the Hair Replacement Industry. 

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2005
Hair Replacement: FARRELL's Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement - DEFINING Ultra Custom Hair Replacement.  

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Carlos Oscar Uebel: Growth Factors Used to Expedite Hair Growth and Yield after Hair Transplant. Growth factors concentrated from a patient's own bloodaccelerate hair regrowth while producing up to 35 percent more follicular density, says Carlos Oscar Uebel, M.D.

"Normally it takes three months for hair to start growing. For some patients this is very problematic. Grafts fertilized with platelet-rich plasma start to grow in a few weeks," says Dr. Uebel, associate professor of plastic surgery at Pontifícia Universidade Católicado Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Prior to surgery, technicians take 80 cc of blood, centrifuge it, then concentrate the plasma into a gel. Dr. Uebel then places donor follicles in the gel for 15 minutes, much in the same way a horticulturalist inoculates roots tohasten propagation.

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: Vitiligo-Thoughts on Pigmentation in Strip Scars. Here is an interesting study to treat vitiligo. Vitiligo is a loss of skin pigment. Dark skin turns white in vitiigo. When you do a strip surgery, you find that the scar is often bright pink or white. One way we have treated these white strip scars in the past is to place grafts from FIT into the scar. We have found that this often helps to make the scars regain some pigment through the production of melanin. In this study normal skin grafts were placed into the white areas of skin. They also developed pigment and turned a more natural state of brown in this dark skinned individual.

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Donor Exchange Method, Birth of a new FUE Hair Transplant Protocol. Forum member engages Dr. Arvind in a discussion about using body hair graft to seal off the scalp donor sites after harvesting. According to Dr. Arvind, the potential benefits for such an experiment are: 1. If the body hair in that particular patient takes on the characteristics of the scalp hair, the patient could potentially multiply his donor supply. 2. If the body hair, in a particular patient, does not take on acceptable level of scalp hair characteristics, it can still provide much needed coverage even with extensive scalp hair extractions.

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Repairing Hair Transplant Plugs Without Excising the Grafts. Repair of a wrongly performed hair transplant involves decision making in equal parts on the side of the doctor as well as the patient. Sometimes, the patient may be wary/unwilling to follow certain approaches that the HT doctor may feel will do good. In such a situation the patient may have a plan of action in his own mind. Some such approaches may be beneficial, others maybe not. This is an illustration of a repair case where the patient is against excising any of the existing plugs.

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Bazan: 2500 FUE over 3 Days, Immediately Post Op Photos. This is the first time Dr. Bazan’s patient posts FUE photos in HairSite. This patient has 2500 grafts done over a 3-day period. The photos show immediately post op results. No grown out results at this point.

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Safe Harvesting, What Constitutes Over-harvesting of the Donor Area? Over-harvesting the donor area, whether by fue or by strip IS fraught with danger. With strip, there is the risk of the scar falling out of the safe zone- especially if it is the 3rd mega-strip and the doctor does not take into account the excised scalp tissue while calculating the safe zone. With fue, the danger is of harvesting beyond a particular percentage of grafts. Here’s an interesting and in-depth discussion about the danger of over-harvesting led by Dr. Arvind.

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2005
Hair Transplant: Hair Transplant Victim Gonzo Seeks Advice from Forum Members. "Just seeking your opinions. I am an unfortunate victim of the early 90's slit grafting I was 20. I have had pretty severe loss over the years, and for my case I would just like to know what you guys think. There is no possible way I could do anything at this point due to my finances are terrible. I wish I would have never started this. But I am screwed now. I am forwarding photos to hairsite as I have no idea how to post them. I am think Woods or Cole. I really have seen some unbelievable repair work from them. Maybe I will win the lotto."

Mar 07 - Mar 13, 2005
Hair Replacement: Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement: maintenance issues with hair replacement and hair system. 

Mar 07 - Mar 13, 2005
Hair Replacement: Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement: Hair Attachment Methods, an in-depth discussion. 

Mar 07 - Mar 13, 2005
Hair Replacement: FARRELL's Ultra Custom Non-surgical  Hair Replacement: ULTRA CUSTOM Hair Replacement for African American Hair Types. 

Mar 07 - Mar 13, 2005
Hair Replacement: FARRELL's Ultra Custom Nonsurgical Hair Replacement EuroSilking -  a proprietary process that makes FARRELL a class of its own.

Mar 07 - Mar 13, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Umar: 0.5mm - 1.2mm? A Discussion on Optimal FUE Instrument Sizes. Frequently it is asked what instrument sizes are necessary for successful and harm-free FUE extractions. According to Dr. Umar, most scalp follicles can be successfully extracted with 0.75mm-.80mm sized instruments. However on rare occasions a 1mm sized instrument is called for, comparatively however, more frequent use of 1mm sized instruments is made in other non-scalp body areas (as in during body hair transplantation BHT) for various reasons.

Feb 28 - Mar 06, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: Norwood 3V Patient with 1300 grafts on the Front Hairline including the Temples. This patient was a virgin scalp (3V norwood scale) and had 1300 graft on the front hair line including the temples. This is a 8 months progress taken with his camera. He said that he his very happy with the results so far. As you can see Dr. Cole has lowered his hair line by a inch and the results are very natural, The coverage is excellent from only 1300 Grafts as well. On the set of the photos, the top photos are before and the one on the bottom are after 8 months.

Feb 28 - Mar 06, 2005
Hair Replacement: FARRELL Hair Replacement partnering with PREMIER to develop proprietary non-surgical hair replacement adhesives formula.  

Feb 28 - Mar 06, 2005
Hair Replacement: Ultra Custom Non-surgical Hair Replacement: Richard Farrell's Challenge to the Hair Replacement Industry. 

Feb 28 - Mar 06, 2005
Hair Replacement: National Hair Journal Interview with Richard Farrell, inventor of ultra custom non-surgical hair replacement.  

Feb 28 - Mar 06, 2005
Hair Replacement: Non-Surgical ULTRA CUSTOM Hair Replacement: the only solution that works for all types of hair loss, for both men and women - TESTIMONIALS 

Feb 21 - Feb 27, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Patient 69sting, a Highly Publicized Repair Case. 69sting is well known in the hair loss community. This is a highly publicized repair case performed by Dr. Arvind. 69sting has had numerous procedures from various doctors before going to Dr. Arvind. This is one of the most challenging repair case ever featured in HairSite. This discussion enjoyed almost 2000 views with 84 responses. Numerous photos.

Feb 21 - Feb 27, 2005
Hair Transplant: Studies suggested that Use of Growth Factors Significantly Improves Hair Regrowth. "Normally it takes three months for hair to start growing. For some patients this is very problematic. Grafts fertilized with platelet-rich plasma start to grow in a few weeks," says Dr. Uebel, associate professor of plastic surgery at Pontifícia Universidade Católicado Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Prior to surgery, technicians take 80 cc of blood, centrifuge it, then concentrate the plasma into a gel. Dr. Uebel then places donor follicles in the gel for 15 minutes, much in the same way a horticulturalist inoculates roots tohasten propagation.

Feb 21 - Feb 27, 2005
Hair Transplant: How long can follicular units last outside the body? Preservation of hair follicle units for the purpose of delayed transplant will help us graft thousands of hair grafts at one session, even in a clinic with fewer assistants and less equipment. The objective of this study was undertaken to evaluate and compare the viability of hair follicle units preserved at 0 and 4 degrees C for various periods.

Feb 21 - Feb 27, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: 2400 grafts, 1 year Post Op, Strip. A Norwood 3 patient received 2400 strip grafts from Dr. Arvind. Hyperacute angle placement was used for this patient to create the best possible illusion of density.

Feb 14 - Feb 20, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: Hair  Hair Transplant: Hair Mass Index & 
Hair Mass Transferred by Dr. John P. Cole

Feb 14 - Feb 20, 2005
Hair Transplan - Dr. Armani: Hair Transplant in Incompatible Host: Person-to-Person Hair Transplantation by Dr. Alvi Armani. 

Feb 14 - Feb 20, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: DIY Optimum graft estimation – an Exercise. Dr. Arvind engages forum members in an actual graft estimation exercise. In this exercise, you will find out how precisely to use the DIY method of optimum graft estimation to determine how many grafts you will need in a hair transplant procedure. 

Feb 07 - Feb 13, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Woods: Hair Transplant Plug Repair Case Using Skin Grafting Technique and Body Hair Transplantation. This patient had a not uncommon appearance due to methods practiced widely over 3 decades. He required multiple reparative procedures utilizing skin grafting to the frontal hair line, and body hair. The photos are just days after surgery.

Feb 07 - Feb 13, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Umar: Scalp Hair, Body Hair & Hair Curl. While training on FUSE technique with Dr Poswal, Dr. Umar underwent an 8 day BHT session. The goal was to 1. Further breakup a strip scar that has been previously improved by 600+ scalp FUE. 2. To revisit NW area if leg hair harvesting proved feasible. The following was done during the procedure: 1. To the scar, a combination of scalp and body hair was utilized, about 160 grafts in all. Areas with the least scar camouflage (10-15% of whole scar) were targeted.

Feb 07 - Feb 13, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: 900 Grafts FIT/FUE results from the NYC seminar. These photos were taken at Dr. Cole’s NYC Seminar 2/5/2005. This patient had 900 grafts (Feb 04) placed just shy of one year ago when these latest pictures were taken. He has good growth and significant improvement. He will soon return to Dr. cole for another session to increase fullness. His coverage is much better now, however, and he is able to wear his hair much shorter than before. Before his procedure, he was forced to wear the hair much longer to conceal the balding areas especially the temple areas.

Feb 07 - Feb 13, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: How many grafts per sq. cm.? Optimum Graft requirement for hairline and temples. One of the questions that often comes up is how many grafts per sq. cm.? Dr. Arvind engages forum members in an interesting discussion about grafts density in people with hair loss and its significance in hair transplant procedures. This discussion also includes

Jan 31 - Feb 06, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Armani: New Progress with FUE Hair Transplant. 1889 FUE grafts in One Session. An advanced computerized process (developed by Dr. Antonio Alvi Armani and Dr. Sara Armani) allows Alvi Armani surgeons to offer FUE mega sessions
and FUE density sessions. A computerized process allows for the safe removal of each graft. A transection rate of 1% is achievable. 2000+ grafts can be safely harvested and transplant in a single session. Patients can achieve a density of 70-140 grafts cm/2 in the hairline.

Jan 31 - Feb 06, 2005
Hair Transplant - Drs. Cole, Jones, Woods, Arvind Poswal: Recent Body Hair Transplant Cases. – Examples of recent body hair transplant cases, compiled from Dr. Cole, Dr. Jones, Dr. Poswal, and Dr. Woods.

Jan 31 - Feb 06, 2005
Hair Transplant: Why are scars permanent? The science behind scar formation is complex. Answers to whether a wound will leave a scar is dependent on a combination of biological processes that include the characteristics of the original wound and how it healed, and the way the skin cells regenerate. People who are concerned about scar formation in hair transplant procedures may find this article very informative.

Jan 31 - Feb 06, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Donor Sealant Protocol, Step by Step Illustration of the Exact Methodology. This method entails removal of the epidermis from the graft. The follicular unit (FU) is then placed with the hair just visible on the top of the recipient site. According to Dr. Arvind, the superficial epidermis is not required for the graft growth in the recipient area. However, it is helpful/required to give good results in the donor area and reduce signs of visible scarring. Dr. Arvind and his team have been performing the donor sealing technique for scalp as well as body FUSE donor areas for over 7 months now. They have not encountered any side effects and the results in terms of minimizing any visible scarring have been extraordinary.

Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: Wassup’s Before & After Photos, the Most Dramatic Results Ever Featured in HairSite. This is by far the most impressive and most dramatic before and after photos ever featured in HairSite. Wassup has received 6500+ grafts over the years.  3 Strip procedures and 1 FIT/FUE procedure.

Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Donor Sealing: Minimizing Visible Scars in FUE Donor Sites. This topic started off with Dr. Arvind analyzing the formation of tiny white dots under FUE procedures. Topics that are covered included healing by primary and secondary intention, scar formation in different body parts, mechanisms of tumescence, and stretch & contract approach to scar healing. Dr. Arvind feels that the pathway to an undetectable FUE donor site is to focus on expediting the epidermization process. The aim should be to jump start epidermization and delay the forces of collagen synthesis.

Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2005
Laser Treatment:  LaserComb Achieves Over 90% Customer Satisfaction.  HairMax LaserComb boasts over 90% customer satisfaction and is one of the few products on the market that comes with a money back guarantee. The distributor claims that this device offers users thicker, fuller and healthier hair without drugs or surgeries. We have access to the clinical study for Lasercomb that was featured in the International Journal of Cosmetic Surgery and Aesthetic Dermatology. The title of the article is “Hair Regrowth and Increased Hair Tensile Strength Using the HairMax LaserComb. Anyone interested in reading the full report please email hairsite@aol.com

Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2005
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Newly created non-surgical hair replacement photo gallery now available on HairSite. We would like to stress that these are actual FARRELL Hair Replacement ULTRA CUSTOM clients. Since you're doing your research to find out who is the best, you've probably already noticed that hair replacement companies all over the world use the same "before and after" photos on their web sites. They not only order systems from the same overseas factories, but they get their client photos from the same place too!

Look over these photos. We have included clients with short hair styles, long hair styles, styles for business or pleasure. We have included men and women and African-American clients. The front hairlines are perfect and age appropriate according to each client. Can anyone else in the industry is able to achieve these non-surgical results?

Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: FUE and Repair Procedure of Over 3900 grafts from the Hairline throughout the Top and the Crown. This is a patient who had multiple plug grafts placed several years ago by the old punch graft method that left shotgun scars in the back of the scalp. He was a class 5A to 6 and all his hair from the top to the crown area was completely bald. He also has numerous elliptical scars in the back of the scalp where someone shamelessly talked this person into suturing a hairpiece to the top of his scalp. 13 months ago he underwent a FIT/FUE procedure of over 3900 grafts from the hairline throughout the top and including the crown. The old plug scars in the donor area reduced the total follicular density so that Dr. Cole’s team had to harvest follicular units between, above, and below the shotgun scars. The old hairline was too low and the hair growth angle was incorrect and unnatural. All of these factors required a complex repair plan that was carried out 13 months ago at Dr. Cole’s clinic.  Dr. Cole and his team also added some FIT grafts on the "shot gun scars" in his donor area.  The plug scars and other scars are not visible anymore.

Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: Repair Case for Patient with Low Follicular Density Made Possible by FUE .This patient is a repair case who desired additional coverage in the crown. He had numerous procedures in the 1980s including plugs and scalp reductions. This left him with a pluggy hairline and pluggy tear drop shaped crown. Tear drop shaped crowns result from midline scalp reductions that lower the crown into the donor area and elevate it toward the front. He did not want to soften the hairline. He simply wanted more hair in the crown. His donor area was extremely tight and diffusely scarred with a low donor density. Dr. Cole and his team attempted one strip procedure on him, but this yielded only 400 grafts due to the low follicular density, excessive scarring, and extremely tight donor area. Subsequently, Dr. Cole was able to remove 2000 grafts with the FIT/FUE technique. This is 7 months post op results.

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: 400 FUE grafts on Left Temple, 3.5 months Post Op . This patient is 28 years old. He had 400 grafts on the left temple only. This is also one of the first patients who had received Dr. Arvind’s donor sealant protocol during the procedure.

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Diffuse Thinning with 3000 grafts, 8 months Post Op . This patient has diffuse thinning and had hair transplant done on the left side of the hairline- 400 FUHT grafts in May 2003 before he went to Dr. Arvind for 3000 grafts in May 2004.

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: Norwood class 5A with 2500 grafts. Strip. This patient has received 2500 strip grafts on the frontal region of the scalp. The results are very natural and the transplanted hair is very soft. The before photos were taken with his hair pull down, while the in the after photos the hair is pull up. The frontal area was totally bald as he was a class 5A.

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Rarely Shown FUE Extraction Video . This is a very rarely shown FUE extraction video clip. The donor harvesting is performed by Dr. Arvind and is captured live on video. Viewers can see how each follicular unit is being extracted from the donor site. You will require Windows Media Player to view this video clip.

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: FUE into Scar, 300 grafts, 8 months Post Op. This patient had a procedure 8 month ago. He had 300 FIT/FUE grafted on his scar. The work results are fantastic. Noticed the pinkish color in the before pictures, it has been dramatically reduced in the after photos. According to Dr. Cole’s team, they have noticed reduction in color with some patients that had FIT/FUE grafted into a scar, and it is definitely helping along with the growth to the overall appearance of the donor. The growth is excellent and the patient is very happy with the results. Even more growth will be expected at 12-15 month's post op.

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Arvind: Verifying the Yield for a Small FUE Procedure . This discussion pertains to pictures of a patient who received a small FUE session in Nov 2003. Dr. Arvind and his team placed 90 FUE grafts in an isolated area of the patient’s scalp. According to Dr. Arvind, all the 90 grafts are growing and healthy. This patient is now returning to Dr. Arvind for a 600 graft procedure.

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Cole: Norwood 3 with 1100 FUE grafts. Amazing Results. Norwood 3 patient received 1100 grafts at Dr. Cole’s clinic. The density is 30-35 cm2. He received his procedure 2 years ago. This is as natural as it gets for someone who is a Norwood 3. This procedure offers the best illusion of density for a mere 1100 grafts.

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2005
Hair Transplant - Dr. Feller: Bukkaroo’s High Density FUE with Dr. Feller .1,150 FUE grafts with Dr. Feller. 1,000 were put into the hairline and 150 into the linear scar. Dr. Feller partially worked into an area where Dr. Hasson has already planted grafts about a year ago to increase the density. Dr. Feller has also lowered this patient’s hairline on both sides where according to the patient the density is around 80 grafts/cm2.

This is the continuation of an earlier discussion. Click here.

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2005
Hair Transplant Dr. Jones: BHT / FUE into Scar, 1 Yr Post Op Photos, Recipient & Donor. This patient is 33 years old. He had the following BHT/FUE procedures with Dr. Jones: 1. 500 FUE Feb 17,03 (142 head, 358 chest)  2. 500 FUE Feb 23 ,04 (260 head, 240 chest)  3. Patient is having another 500 chest FUE with Dr. Jones the day when these pictures were posted. These grafts are all being planted into a wide donor scar resulting from several strip surgeries. Readers can see not only the recipient site but also the donor site, ie: patient’s chest.

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2005
All Natural & Supplements:  Laminaria Extract Increases Outer Root Sheath Cell Growth

Recently, stem cells discovered in the bulge region of the outer root sheath (ORS) are found to be able to induce the anagen phase in the hair follicle cycle. In an attempt to research for growth-promoting agents for the ORS cells, some studied the effect of various botanical extracts on the growth of cultured human hair follicles. Among the studies conducted, Laminaria angustata extract was found to be able to increase the ORS cell growth. Further, hair-growth in the shaved skin of C3H mice was also promoted by the topical application of the extract.

Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2005
Topical:  SLS, Hairloss and Health Concerns.  This is another chapter of the never-ending debate as to whether SLS in shampoos is causing hairloss and other health problems. Several of our forum members have posted very informative and well documented studies to further the debate on this topic. So is it safe to use shampoos that contain SLS ?

Jan 03 - Jan 09, 2005
All Natural & Supplements: Oxicell: Liposomes Based Glutathione (GSH) and Superoxide Dismutases (SOD).

Superoxide dismutases (SOD) are enzymes which destroy or neutralize superoxide free radicals and are reported to be beneficial for hairloss. Excellent info on SOD can be found at http://www.phoenixlongevity.com/sod.html. Glutathione (GSH), on the other hand, is a component of the defense system, synthesized mainly by photosynthesis. Recent study (http://abstracts.aspb.org/pb2003/public/P44/0727.html ) suggest that GSH has an indirect effect on hair root formation via its effect on CPC.

Here’s an excerpt about the new product OXICELL: "OXICELL represents a significant breakthrough in the field of natural medicine, particularly in the area of antioxidant supplementation. OXICELL is a metabolic cream that transports a stabilized form of glutathione (GSH) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) into the bloodstream via transdermal liposomal delivery methods. The plasma markers of GSH and SOD are not raised when these are supplied orally; therefore, effective transport into the bloodstream via liposomal delivery as found in OXICELL is preferential. The transdermal method of delivery, known as liposomal delivery, is one in which lipid spheres called liposomes surround GSH and SOD, transporting it through the skin until it reaches the blood supply"

Jan 03 - Jan 09, 2005
Hair Multiplication:  Uwbio Hair Multiplication Experiment. Uwbio, one of our forum members and a scientist himself, started his own Hair Multiplication experiment a few months ago.  He just posted his most recent update with photos showing the image of a plucked hair removed from the side of his head and incubated at 37 degrees C. for 3 days.  You can still see the outer root sheath and the inner root sheath as well as the hair shaft.

Jan 03 - Jan 09, 2005
Hair Multiplication:  Info on the TrichoCyte (Hair Multiplication) Trials (Phase 1).  "