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In order to have your newly transplanted hair look at its best, proper styling is important!

As you certainly know, we all lose hair every day and this phenomenon is perfectly normal. Just like the cells of our skin, our hair is renewed without our noticing. There are three different stages :...

The concept of hairgrafting comes from observing a fairly simple phenomenon :... Hair Transplantation By age 50, about 50% of American men—and a substantial number of women—are affected by hair loss, much of which is hereditary. Micro-hair transplantation is a state-of-the-art hair transplantation technique that has replaced "plugs" or larger grafts of hair....

Designing Hairlines The hairline should restore symmetry, harmony, and proportion to the face without being perceived as artificial or unnatural. The trick is to establish a static hairline that by its shape and location will appear natural over the course of decades. This means you shouldn't always have a low, youthful hairline. Patients must be reminded that the hairline must look natural in old age as well as in youth. Low hairlines look good in the teens and 20's, but awful in the 50's, 60's, 70's. A high hairline with temporal recessions generally achieves an excellent life-long result. There are many advantages to this mature, conservative pattern. The higher the hairline and the greater the recessions, the less the amount of hair required to cover a given area. This pattern may give greater density and a more natural appearance than a low, round hairline. This hairline pattern is especially critical for patients with minimal donor hair. In creating the hairline, a surgeon must focus on the future, not on the past, and should not consider the patient's previous hairline. The patient may desire the hairline of his youth, but what he really should have is a hairline that will age well and meet the constraints of donor hair volume and quality. Most patients want low, youthful hairlines - all patients need high, mature hairlines. Get what you need. You can't always get what you want. ...

Hair loss used to be a closely guarded secret between a woman and her hair stylist. But, the truth is that millions of women suffer from thinning hair and hair loss as a natural consequence of hormone changes that typically begin at the onset of menopause....

In order to understand what we can do to repair old plug-graft transplants, it is important to understand why they now fall short of our aesthetic standards. ...