I have itching in my recipient area 2 months following my transplant. How long will this last and what is causing it?
Itching is a sign of healing. It means that good things are happening and your hair is in the early stages of growth. You will have very little happening after only 2 months, but it is going to happen. Just be patient. The hair is about to grow and the itching should fade rapidly. I’ve heard of only one chronic case of itching that another doctor had in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In other words, it is quite rare.
Recently, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article on finasteride and dustasteride, whose brand names are Propecia, Proscar, and Avodart. The article may be summarized as follows. An analysis of trials evaluating finasteride and dutasteride indicate that the reduction in prostate cancer risk with both finansteride and dutasteride was limited to tumors with a modified Gleason Score of 6 or lower. Therefore, the trade off inherent in using a 5 alpha reductase inhibitor for prostate cancer prevention is the acceptance of one additional high grade cancer in order to avoid three to four theoretically clinically pertinent lower grade cancers.
The supposition drawn by the advisory committee in December was that finasteride and dutasteride do not have a advantageous risk-benefit profile for the propositioned use of chemoprevention of prostate cancer in healthy men. The FDA agrees with this assessment.
Dear Dr. Cole, I read your article regarding hair transplant surgery in Bangkok. I currently live in Singapore. Do you have any plans to come to Singapore? I’m interested in hair restoration. Huang
Dear Huang, the purpose of our trip to Bangkok was to help train physicians in the art and science of FUE. We do not have an office in Singapore at this time. Asian physicians are very skilled in FUT. You are in good hands in Singapore, however. I recommend that you see Dr. Tyng Yuan Tan. She has extensive training in hair transplant surgery. She is a very conscientious physician dedicated to her patients. I’ve personally seen her perform hair restoration surgery. She has excellent hands and assisted me in one of my hair restoration surgery procedure in Bangkok. Not only that, she is a very pleasant person with remarkable compassion. She impressed me immediately. Thank you very much for your interest.
Would it be possible to keep the number of units down to saw 300 to 500 per session to minimize swelling, post op.
hair loss and cash out lay?
When you do a strip procedure, you want to do as many grafts as possible to help reduce the risk of wider scarring and improve the efficiency of the strip procedure. When you do CIT or an FUE procedure, it does not affect the efficiency of the procedure no matter how many grafts you do.
Furthermore, there is no strip scar to worry about with CIT or FUE.
The number of grafts you do may have an affect on shock loss. For instance, if you graft only a portion of the scalp, only that portion may have shock loss. The remainder of the scalp will not have shock loss. One variable that may affect shock loss is the density of grafts that you place on the top. If you keep the density lower, the risk of shock loss will be less. If you attempt a higher density, the risk of shock loss may increase.
With FUE and CIT, you can keep the number of grafts performed down and this will reduce the risk for shock loss. Shock loss does not affect most individuals when you have a capable physician perform your procedure. Therefore, the trade off may be less hair in the near future that is grafted to your thinning areas. That trade off may be unnecessary. Then again, shock loss can have a tremendous negative impact on your psychological well being so it often advisable to avoid shock loss whenever possible.
On his way to the airport, a 25 year old soccer striker from Manchester shows a picture of his recipient area after having a hair transplant.
When checking into the airport Wayne covered his area with a baseball cap.
Short after he announced on twitter: “I’ve had a hair transplant. I’m delighted.”
Now he has posted the photo – with the misspelled message: “Hi all there’s my head. It will take a few months to grow. Still a bit bloody to. But that’s all normal.”
The Sun revealed that the 25-year-old England star had a FUE hair transplant procedure that lasted for day at a Medical Institute in central London.
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