Doctors on Hair Loss & Hair Transplant surgery.

I heard the tern “Donor Recharging”, what does it means?

CIT donor recharging is a method of preparation where each extracted scalp follicular unit is replaced with a body hair follicular unit. The exchange of these grafts isn’t always one for one but the purpose of CIT donor recharging is to replete the donor area and help the donor area from being too thinned from harvesting with hair transplant. CIT donor recharging also stimulates the production of melanin, a pigment in the donor area. Donor recharging allows patients with higher degrees of hair loss to maximize their scalp hair donor supply and fill-in the absence of extracted follicular units. The results with donor recharging are subject to the same limitations as BHT and results cannot be guaranteed. CIT donor recharging results vary from patient to patient and the appearance of the results is unpredictable.

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Rechargeable donor area ?

Donor After 6,000g Harvested with donor Recharging

Tags: appearance, bht, cit, donor area, donor recharging, follicular units, Grafts, hair transplant, patients, pigment, results

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If I’m not totally sure to have a hair transplant, what are some good resources to help understand the process?

Understanding the process is of the utmost importance when considering hair transplant surgery. Many men have wound up with less than desirable results due to lack of information and/or the sales techniques of unscrupulous clinics.
The forhair.com website is a good place to start. There is a voluminous amount of information there with which a person may educated themselves about hair transplantation, the various methods of “harvesting” the hairs for transplant, and also about expectations and outcomes of the procedure.
The non-surgical treatments for hair loss are also discussed at length; this website has more written information that most potential candidates could read in many weeks. The information is truthful, in depth and free from the slick marketing techniques of many clinics.

Check these Hair transplant information and resources:
Forhair.com–Hair Transplant Information
Forhair Hair Transplant Forum
Hair Transplant Guide
IAHRS.ORG
Hair Transplant Information on this site:
Hair Transplant On Hair Loss Press

Tags: clinics, dr. john p. cole, forhair, hair loss, hair transplant, hair transplant forum, hair transplant surgery, hair transplantation, iahrs

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Are many hairs transected as the surgeon makes extractions on the donor during hair transplantation?

Good question. The answer is that it varies wildly from surgeon to surgeon and clinic to clinic. We take great pride in having achieved some of the lowest transection rates in the hair transplant world.

Our transection rates with CIT are averaging less than 3% which is very low compared to the industry as a whole. Some published papers on FUE and other single graft harvesting techniques cite transection rates as high as 50 to 70% from their own clinics! This is a travesty, and should be mentioned only to be condemned. .

Single blade strip surgery has average initial transection rates (in our hands) of about 2%; again, it is all over the map depending upon the experience and expertise of the surgeon, and at least for strip, upon the experience and expertise of the surgical staff. One of the most important variables is the surgical technician staff; after the strip is harvested, the tissue is processed by these technicians. Their transection rates can range from 5% up to as much as 50% of the grafts, and is dependent on their training and skill. This is why quality control in a hair transplant practice is so very important (but unfortunately is not the norm by any means). In our practice, CIT has a lower transection rate <3% than strip; in strip cases, our technicians’ transection rates, plus the transection during harvest, averages 5%. So for us, even this relatively low strip transection exceeds our even lower CIT transection!
Remember that the training and expertise of hair transplant surgeons runs the gamut, from beginners with virtually no experience to speak of, to veterans with thousands of cases and thousands of quality results under their belts. However, there is one other factor that comes into play, which is standards. A physician may have years of experience, but set the standards in his practice very low. In this situation, sloppy work and poor technique, combined with minimal staff oversight and quality control, may produce high transection rates and other conditions that lead to mediocre results at best, and cosmetic disasters at worst.

We are proud of the high quality and dedication to excellence that we are known for!

Tags: cit, cole isolation technique, dr. john p. cole, hair loss, hair restoration, hair transplant, hair transplant surgeons, hair transplant surgery, male pattern baldness, physician, strip, thinning, thinning hair, transection

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I have a seemingly strange question. Has anyone tried taking advantage of medical donors with hair transplant procedure?

That’s a good question and one that we’ve thought about previously. I suspect one of the big concerns with this would be trying to match the donors. With life and death situation such as kidney and liver transplants, medical insurance will take care of the testing. With hair transplants, the procedure is not medically necessary so most insurance companies shy away from paying for hair transplant surgery. When someone dies, they check their organ donor status. If they are a donor, they are tested. If there is a suitable match in another state, the organs are air lifted to the patient. Such protocol for hair would be extremely expensive. Also, one often has immunosuppressive medications to prevent organ rejection. This would be quite expensive to the cosmetic surgery patient, as well since insurance companies would not pay the fee for on going immunosuppressant treatment.

Tags: cosmetic surgery, hair transplant procedure, hair transplant surgery, hair transplants, medical donors, organs

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When and how does the new hair grow in after my hair transplant ?

Many people ask this question during and after their hair transplant; some actually think the hair will all continue to grow and they will have their “new head of hair” immediately. Unfortunately, most individuals have to accept delayed gratification as part of the transplant experience!

When the grafts are placed in the balding areas, they indeed may continue to grow for a few weeks. However, by about three weeks, the hairs begin to rapidly shed and soon most all of them are gone. The good news is that the follicle cells, the ones that make the new hair shaft that grows up and out, are still lying dormant under the skin.

At about three to four months, the first hairs begin to sprout through the scalp. At first, all new hairs will be finer, and slightly less pigmented than they will eventually be after some growth time. It is important to note that the grafted hairs do not all begin to come in simultaneously; they generally sprout in a “staggered” fashion, which means that each month some new sprouts will be noticed emerging from the scalp, until they all have grown in! Full growth will have occurred, on average, after about 10 to 12 months; full ingrowth may sometimes take a little longer on second and subsequent procedures.

Of course, the full cosmetic effect may not be apparent right away. This is because length and caliber of hair, as well as density, contribute to coverage. Once the hair has grown long enough and each shaft has become thick enough, then the full coverage will be apparent and the welcome decrease in the appearance of thinning and baldness will be noticeable.

Tags: appearance, balding, balding areas, baldness, density, Grafts, hair growth, hair shaft, hair transplant surgery, ingrowth, thinning, transplant experience

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