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Donor Recharging with CIT

Posted by Site_Admin on July 24th 2008 to Donor Recharging

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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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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New Hair Grow In After Hair Transplant Surgery

Posted by Site_Admin on May 15th 2008 to Post-Operative

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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Dr. Cole Reveals C2G Video Demonstration

Posted by Site_Admin on May 01st 2008 to Multimedia

This video demonstration was taken during live hair transplant surgery with one of Dr. Cole’s patients. With strip harvesting or traditional FUE, the patients are very limited in their personal appearance and have difficulties getting back to normal daily activities because they are asked to shave their head.
Shaving the head allows the physician to have high visibility of the donor area which is necessary for donor hair extraction. With the new C2G technique, the patients are able to keep their normal hair style before and after the CIT technique!
Now patients can have the best of both worlds. They no longer have to put up with the pain associated with strip scars and they can still maintain their normal hair style.

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Tags: c2g, cit, dr. john p.cole, hair style, hair transplant, hair transplant surgery, patients, strip scar, surgery, video

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What Causes Shock Loss?

Posted by Site_Admin on April 30th 2008 to Hair Restoration information

It is really unknown what causes shock loss. Shock loss is hair loss resulting from a hair transplant procedure. There are many theories, however. Shock loss most likely is due to an inflammatory response as a result of physical trauma. It is really quite uncommon in the donor area. It is more common in the recipient area. The density of incision sites may play a role as high density incision sites tend to produce shock loss more comm shock loss Causes only. Shock loss will occur only in the area where the incisions are made. It will not occur in adjacent regions.

Shock loss begins about 2 to 3 weeks after a procedure and it will continue over a period of a few weeks. If you experience hair loss months after a procedure, it is not due to shock loss, but rather due to progression of hair loss or some other factor unrelated to the hair transplant procedure.

Some feel it is due to the injection of epinephrine, which is commonly added to the anesthetic. This is most likely untrue as you will not see shock loss in areas where anesthesia is given, but rather only in areas where the incision sites were made. You also more commonly see it in the recipient area while epinephrine is also given in the anesthetic given in the donor area during a hair transplant surgery. Even though the same anesthetic with epinephrine is given in the donor area, you do not see shock loss in the donor area when it occurs in the recipient area.

The inflammation might result from physical trauma, but it also might be due to the free radicals that accumulate in tissue that continues to metabolize outside the body in an anaerobic state. Free radical scavengers in the storage fluid along with cooling of the tissue outside the body might help reduce the amount of free radicals produced by the grafts. One might also limit the free radical load by limiting the recipient area density during a hair transplant.

Shock loss is uncommon in the donor area with both strip harvesting and with FUE or FIT.

When shock loss occurs, the hair will generally begin to grow back after a hiatus of 3 months. It is only the fine wispy baby like hair that seems most prone to remain dormant following shock loss. This sort of baby fine, short, lightly pigmented hair produces the least amount of coverage, however, so it will not be missed as coarser, darker, longer terminal hairs will take their place when the hair transplantation produces new hair growth beginning three months after the hair transplant.

Tags: donor area, Grafts, hair transplant procedure, hair transplant surgery, high density, inflammatory response, recipient area, shock loss, transplant shock

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Bariatric Weight Loss Surgery And Hair Loss

Posted by Dr.Cole on April 23rd 2008 to Hair Loss Causes

My mother had esophageal band surgery a couple of years ago due to her excessive weight problem. Following this she has noted progressive hair loss and a change in her personality. I’ve read that band surgery and stomach stapling can cause hair loss. Is this true?

Bariatric (Weight Loss) Surgery: Metabolic, nutritional, psychological and physiological Consequences Bariatric or weight loss surgeries have become commonplace in the USA and in other countries, in part due to an ever increasing incidence of obesity in the context of a societal standard of beauty that emphasizes a thin, shapely physique. Lobbying by various organizations, as well as medical studies detailing the present and future consequences of untreated obesity, has led to insurance coverage for these surgeries, which were previously deemed “cosmetic”. This article will detail some of the physical and mental aspects of the often rapid weight loss which occurs after bariatric surgery.
The bariatric surgery community utilizes a number of procedures to promote rapid and hopefully permanent weight loss. Some of the earlier methods have been abandoned or modified due to unacceptable morbidity in the post-operative period, both immediate and long-term. Currently used techniques most often decrease absorption of calories or promote early satiety (feeling of fullness), or some combination of the two.
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Unfortunately, the decreased absorption of calories is accompanied by decreased absorption of macro- and micro-nutrients. This often leads to nutritional deficiencies of varying degrees of severity. Sometimes these deficiencies may go undetected for some time, until they have had a profound effect on the patient. Many of these deficiencies can be very difficult to treat (refractory) once established. They may cause significant derangement in the patient’s physical, mental and emotional health.