San Francisco Hair Transplant doctors
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Kimberly Lee, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon
433 North Camden Drive Suite 780, Beverly Hills |
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Larry Fan, MD
San Francisco Plastic Surgeon
77 Van Ness Avenue Suite 302, San Francisco |
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Chase Lay, MD
Bay Area Facial Plastic Surgeon
10050 Bubb Road Suite #1, Cupertino |
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Usha Rajagopal, MD
San Francisco Plastic Surgeon
490 Post Street Suite 430 , San Francisco |
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Sara Colby, MD
San Francisco Dermatologist
525 South Drive Suite 115, Mountain View |
Recent Answers
I have a bald spot on the crown of my head that was caused by radiation treatments that I received to cure my brain tumor. Its been a year and a half since I've received the radiation and my radiation doctor says that the hair is not going to grow back. Is hair restoration surgery a good option for me?
I have many successful hair restoration procedures done on patients who lost hair from radiation therapy for brain tumors. My usual approach is to expand the adjacent scalp with a balloon expander for about 6 weeks and, then with a second procedure, move the stretched hair bearing skin over the bald area which is cut out. This gives a result immediately . Hair transplants could also work.
I'm 24 year old male. I had a hair transplant of 3000 grafts 7 days ago. Tonight I washed my hair and gently rubbed it with my fingers because that's how my doctor advised me. What really scared me is that I could see some scabs in my hand that looked like grafts. They were the same size and they had hair in it. Is it possible that I pulled out some? And also, is it normal that my head is still full of scabs after 7 days? Shouldn't it heal faster? Are these cracks on my head normal?
This is the normal course of events in that the crusts with the hairs fall out after about a week or two. The hair the start to regrow after 3 months. If they fall out withinn the first 3 days, then the grafts may have been lost. Your transplant surgeon should have told you about this and you should discuss it with him/her. Then cracks that show up on photography likely represent where the crusts fell off.
I got into an accident 10 years ago, which caused scarring around my front hairline. Ive been wearing my hair parted to the side to cover up the scar tissue and bald patch, and I was just wondering if I would be a good candidate for a hair transplant on this area?
Hair transplants should work very well for your particular problem. One could consider a scalp advancement procedure but it appears that you have multiple directions of hair flow that would likely leave a detectible scar. Transplants can be placed to exactly match the existing hair directions.