Q: It’s a question that greatly concerns me because I’m investigating getting a transplant sometime next year. I’m 28 and thought I started balding at 26, but photographic evidence suggests it had started somewhere around age 24. I’m roughly a Class 2 now, and thanks to finasteride, I’ve stayed almost exactly where I was at [...]

Q: My hair is receding in the front corners and I have a spot in the crown. I am 22 years old. I’ve been thinking of hair transplants for the past few years and I am 100% sure I want to take this step. I don’t go anywhere without my hat. I hate it. Should [...]

Q: It is my understanding that as a person loses his or her hair, the skin of the scalp undergoes a number of changes, namely there is a loss of fat, an increase in cellular atrophy, and of course the dreaded perifollicular fibrosis (now that’s a mouthful). It seems to me that these changes, in [...]

Q: Is it possible to tell me roughly how many grafts would be left from donor area if one had a hair transplant of 2,500 grafts and had a density of around 2.0? G.H. – New York, NY A: How much hair can be harvested in total depends upon a number of factors besides donor [...]

Q: What causes graft popping during a hair transplant? A: Popping, or the tendency for grafts to elevate after they have been placed into the recipient area, is caused by a number of factors including: Packing the grafts too closely, particularly when they are placed on a very acute (sharp) angle with the skin Rough [...]