Doctors Share Hair Transplant & Hair Loss Information
Hair Transplant Surgery Insider Blog by hairlosspress.com. The untold side of hair loss and hair transplant surgery from industry insiders. Includes exclusive news and facts, top five and top 10 lists and reliable studies and findings.Dr. Cole will arrive in Cyprus the first week of July 2012 in preparation of his new clinic opening in London later in 2012. Dr. Cole will be evaluating and seeing patients during this trip for consultations.
Dr. Cole along with HDC have build the most skilled FUE surgery team in all of Europe, as well as the world. This team is dedicated to the highest standard of hair restoration results. Dr. Cole has been treating european patient with the best results dating from 2003. In all of Europe, his team have the most FUE experience along . No Clinic or physician has more FUE results than we do anywhere in the world. No clinic in the world matches this team expertise, consistency, or patient satisfaction.
For making appointments for this trip please use the “Hair Transplant Consultation” on the sidebar with your details or use the contact form. We wil be contacting you as soon as possible.
Hair loss affects both men and women. The overwhelming majority of men and women who have hair loss are concerned about their hair loss. Until recently patients had only one surgical solution to add hair to the top of their scalp. That solution was strip harvesting. Today patients have a better option, follicular unit extraction (FUE). Here are the top five reasons why patients who want to restore their hair loss should consider FUE as a hair transplant solution.
1. You avoid the unsightly strip scar in the back of your head. No one can predict how wide the strip scar will be. Strip scars tend to become wider when you need a second or third procedure. FUE allows you to avoid the strip scar altogether
2. With FUE you get 33% more hair with eachgraft. With strip surgery, the surgery technicians dissect the grafts down predominantly into one and two hair grafts. This means you often pay twice or three times for the same follicular unit. FUE allows you to receive intact follicular units and 33% more hair with each graft.
3. Follicle injury is less likely with wellperformed FUE. Strip harvesting results in a much higher follicle injury rate. That’s the dirty secret that strip surgeons don’t want you to know. That’s why they don’t calculate it.
4. FUE helps you avoid problems such as persistent pain, numbness, or tightness in your donor area that is almost universal with strip surgery. Because FUE is performed in a more superficial plane, the nerves and blood vessels are not cut. Also, the scalp is not left tight because a wide chunk is not cut out as is performed in strip surgery.
5. The results are better with FUE than with strip surgery. FUE creates a better result from the same number of grafts. FUE even produces a better result from fewer grafts. This is because FUE grafts have both a lower follicle injury rate and more hair per graft. On top of that time out of body (TOB) is much less with FUE grafts. Typical strip surgery procedures often leave the grafts out for over 5 hours. FUE grafts are generally placed within the first one-hour of harvesting. All of these factors help to insure a better yield from a FUE procedure.
I recently heard that you demonstrated your devices at the annual ISHRS meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. Can you tell us who is interested in these devices.
Dr. Patrick Mwamba visited us recently to evaluate the surrounded punches and the PCID. We demonstrated the ease of extraction and the low transection rate with the PCID. We demonstrated chest hair, scalp hair, and beard hair removal. Dr. Mwamba was very impressed with the extraction rates and ease of extraction with these devices. Dr. Cole also demonstrated the new battery powered Cole Isolation Device (BCID) to Dr. Mwamba.
when you have an hair transplant do have to take any drugs i.e propecia?
No, medications are not required for you to have a hair transplant. Many patients do not want to take medications. This is why they have a transplant instead. Hair loss is a life long process, however. The rationale for taking medications in addition to a hair transplant is that they help to slow the progression of hair loss. This can help reduce the need for future hair transplants to replace the hair you loose over time.
In addition, medications can help you have a fuller head of hair than might be possible through hair transplants alone. Like it or not, the donor area supply is limited. There is only so much we can do for any single individual. Medications can help fill the void should your hair loss out tax the amount of donor hair that you have to transplant to the areas of loss or thinning.
I am moved to India and I was thinking of using the Finpecia manufactured by Cipla which seems to be same as propecia. But I need your advice regarding this. Finpecia is easily available in India rather than shipping the propecia from US. Can you please suggest weather it is safe to switch to Finpecia or not?
Unless Merck has sold the licensing rights to another company to make the exact same thing as Propecia, this is not the same as Propecia. There are many companies in India that make knock off drugs that are supposed to be the same thing, but you really have no idea what you are taking.
Merck is not likely to allow another company to copy their brand anymore than Microsoft would allow another company to make a knock off version of Windows. Keep looking for Propecia. You can buy generic Proscar if you can find a brand that is the real thing. This is 5 mg of finasteride so you just break the tiny pills into 4 equal pieces and take 1/4 pill each day. This will really reduce your cost. You might be better off brining that in from a reilable source such as the USA. The laws here really are intended to protect both the manufacturer and, more importantly, the consumer.
