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What Are Hair Transplant Procedures for Treating Male Alopecia?

asked 8 months ago by anon
Latest answer by Hannah Vargas, MD
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Tags: male, alopecia, choices, hair loss, options, scar, scarring

Are the options for men the same as women for alopecia? What options are there for limiting the visible scars?

6 answers to What Are Hair Transplant Procedures for Treating Male Alopecia?

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Women and Hair Transplants

Hair transplants depend on the pattern of baldness or thinning and the extent and not as much on the gender of the patient. In general, there is more medical therapy for men then women but there are many new options for problems that tend to be more specific to women making transplants a very natural and well tolerated procedure for women. The extent and type of hair thinning will, in part, determine how and where the hair to be moved is harvested. ... more
Hannah Vargas, MD

Kansas City Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Hair transplant is one option

There are many options for female hair restoration, but hair transplantation is becoming a very popular solution for many types of female balding.
Kevin Ende, MD

Manhattan Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Hair Transplant Procedures for Male Alopecia

The two basic procedures for treating male alopecia are hair transplants and the Fleming/Mayer flap .Adjunctive procedures include scalp reductions and various small flaps. Treatment of hair loss does not depend on gender, but rather the pattern and extent of alopecia.
Richard W. Fleming, MD

Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon
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What Are Hair Transplant Procedures for Treating Male Alopecia?

The options for hair loss are hair transplants, scalp reductions and scalp flaps. each have their pros and cons and use in either women or men depending on the type of balding pattern, hair density and desired coverage.
Francis R. Palmer, III, MD

Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Hair transplant options

There appear to be 2 questions to deal with in this correspondence. Transplant options may be different for men versus women depending on the type of hair loss or hair pattern. If the problem is similar, that is progressive hair loss with a male pattering (women get it too), then the similar options are follicular unit grafts harvested by strip or FUE methods. Transposition flaps and scalp reductions are rarely done for routine pattern baldness situations... more
Sheldon S. Kabaker, MD

Oakland Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.kabaker.com

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Options for treating male pattern baldness.

Options for treating male pattern baldness are3 basically only 2. Hair transplants where you transfer hair by grafting "blades of grass" from one part of the head to another. This involves multiple treatments and takes 1 year for the hair to grow to combing length. The other way is The Fleming-Mayer Flap. This involves moving an entire "piece of sod" from the same area as above. But that area is finished and needs no further work. When the flap is transfered it... more
Toby Mayer, MD

Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

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