Posts Tagged: Hair Restoration Surgeon

Can You Have Hair Transplant to Crown Before Front or Top of Scalp?

October 26th, 2009

Q: Can the crown be transplanted first instead of frontal area? Why is the crown the last choice? Any reasons behind it?

A: The crown can be transplanted first in patients who have very good donor reserves (i.e., high density and good scalp laxity). Otherwise, after a hair restoration procedure to the crown you may not be left with enough hair to complete the front and top if those areas were to bald.

Cosmetically, the front and top are much more important to restore than the back. A careful examination by a trained hair restoration surgeon can tell how much donor hair there is available for a hair transplant.

For more information on this topic, see my publication on surgical planning of hair transplants, “Follicular Transplantation: Patient Evaluation and Surgical Planning.”

Topic: Crown (Vertex)

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Posted by Robert M. Bernstein M.D. at 12:51 pm

Will Hair Transplant Affect Ability for Hair Cloning or Vice Versa?

June 1st, 2007

Q: If someone where to get a hair transplant now, and then in the future when hair cloning becomes a possibility, would the hair transplant graphs be affected by the hairs that come from hair cloning procedure?

A: Cloned hair should not be affected by hair that is transplanted the traditional way and visa versa.

If you have a hair transplant now, the hair restoration surgeon can add more hair in the future when cloning becomes available.

Topic: Hair Cloning

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Posted by Robert M. Bernstein M.D. at 6:49 am

How Does Densitometer Help Diagnose Hair Loss?

August 17th, 2006

Q: Dr. Bernstein, I was reading about a densitometer on your website. What is it and what is it actually used for?

A: The hair densitometer was introduced to hair restoration surgeons by Dr. Rassman in 1993. It is a small, portable, instrument that has a magnifying lens and an opening of 10mm2.

To use it, the doctor clips the hair short (~ 1-mm) and the instrument is then placed on the scalp. The doctor counts the total number of hairs in the field, looks at the number of hairs per follicular unit and assesses the diameter of the hair, looking in particular for abnormal levels of miniaturization (decreased hair shaft diameter caused by the effects of DHT).

The densitometer can increase the accuracy of the diagnosis of genetic hair loss by picking up early miniaturization.

It can also better assess a person’s donor hair supply, thus helping to determine which patients are candidates for a hair transplant.

Densitometry has helped us define the conditions of diffuse patterned and unpatterned hair loss (DPA and DUPA) and help to refine the diagnosis of hair loss in women.

Topic: Density

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Posted by Robert M. Bernstein M.D. at 1:18 pm





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