Hi everybody. Im 18 and gonna go to university next year and i really dont want to start as bald. Im really in a bad situation i really dont want to go outside before night because of sun I lost my self-confidence please give me some advice
Answer: Hair Transplant Dear emrenassThanks for the question. There is no age limit as such for a hair transplantation. But people under the age group of 18 years to 80 years usually options for hair transplantation as the symptoms of balding and spot balding occur within this span of life. I wish you all the best.
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CONTACT NOW Answer: Hair Transplant Dear emrenassThanks for the question. There is no age limit as such for a hair transplantation. But people under the age group of 18 years to 80 years usually options for hair transplantation as the symptoms of balding and spot balding occur within this span of life. I wish you all the best.
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Answer: See a doctor if you want to have treatment options. Or stay indoors during day time. A doctor needs to examine you first to make sure you are a surgery candidate with good donor hair. The examination may find that you may be at an increased risk of further hair loss and the surgery may actually make the you look WORSE or require more surgery. You also have to understand that hair transplant surgery is not a cure and that they will continue to have further hair loss of non-transplanted hairs. You need to have realistic goals and understand what is possible and what is not possible with surgery.You also have to understand there are medications as well as concealers for thinning hair.
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Answer: See a doctor if you want to have treatment options. Or stay indoors during day time. A doctor needs to examine you first to make sure you are a surgery candidate with good donor hair. The examination may find that you may be at an increased risk of further hair loss and the surgery may actually make the you look WORSE or require more surgery. You also have to understand that hair transplant surgery is not a cure and that they will continue to have further hair loss of non-transplanted hairs. You need to have realistic goals and understand what is possible and what is not possible with surgery.You also have to understand there are medications as well as concealers for thinning hair.
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February 21, 2014
Answer: A hair transplant is not advised for someone your age, but thickening your hair and stopping loss can be done without surgery Hair transplantation is the use of a limited number of genetic resistant hairs to strategically fill areas in the scalp where there is hair loss. Unfortunately, it is generally ill-advised for someone as young as you who has such an aggressive hair loss pattern. When you are losing hair rapidly, most ethical hair transplant doctors would not perform a hair transplant. However, some doctors would do a series of aggressive transplantations which would not look very natural at your age. If you were somebody in your 30s, 40s or 50s then the conversation would be very different because the expectation of the degree of hair loss allows the surgeon to transplant hair in a way to frame the face. There is a general rule of decades - in your 20s, 20% has hair loss - that means 80% of men have good hair that time. Transplantation can’t give you that full volume that so many of your contemporaries have right now and will have in their 20s. The medical options for you to consider are two drugs: minoxidil and finasteride. Minoxidil is a topical application. In my clinical experience, minoxidil doesn’t make much of a difference for younger men like you who are losing hair so quickly. Finasteride is a one mg tablet that you take once a day. It is based on the understanding that a certain group of men have male pattern hair loss because of the androgen sensitivity of hair follicles to dihydrotestosterone or DHT. Finasteride inhibits an enzyme called 5 alpha reductase which converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. Unfortunately, people who are losing hair at this young age tend to not respond very well with finasteride. In addition, there are concerns about the sexual side-effects of finasteride so most of our younger patients do not want to take it. I suggest a technology that we developed for the past couple of years called Hair Regeneration. This is based on the serendipitous discovery of a wound healing material called extracellular matrix and its remarkable ability to thicken thinning hair. We developed a combination of extracellular matrix and platelet-rich plasma taken from the patient’s own blood. The blood is spun down to concentrate the platelets with plasma that have growth and healing factors. This is different from a transplant- it's a series of injections that are done one time. What we have observed is a significant improvement in the regression of thinning. In fact, there is a reversal of thinning and thickening of thin hairs. The more recently thinning hairs respond very well and the older thinning hairs respond not as well so timing is important when doing these injections. In our clinical experience, this injection has helped a lot of people. For 3-5 years, we have not any significant trends of needing to repeat injections. We periodically repeat injections as we developed our formulation and we have worked in enhancing results that we have already gotten. I think this is a great opportunity for someone as young as you to at least to save your existing hair and thicken what you already have. I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck, and thank you for your question.
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Answer: A hair transplant is not advised for someone your age, but thickening your hair and stopping loss can be done without surgery Hair transplantation is the use of a limited number of genetic resistant hairs to strategically fill areas in the scalp where there is hair loss. Unfortunately, it is generally ill-advised for someone as young as you who has such an aggressive hair loss pattern. When you are losing hair rapidly, most ethical hair transplant doctors would not perform a hair transplant. However, some doctors would do a series of aggressive transplantations which would not look very natural at your age. If you were somebody in your 30s, 40s or 50s then the conversation would be very different because the expectation of the degree of hair loss allows the surgeon to transplant hair in a way to frame the face. There is a general rule of decades - in your 20s, 20% has hair loss - that means 80% of men have good hair that time. Transplantation can’t give you that full volume that so many of your contemporaries have right now and will have in their 20s. The medical options for you to consider are two drugs: minoxidil and finasteride. Minoxidil is a topical application. In my clinical experience, minoxidil doesn’t make much of a difference for younger men like you who are losing hair so quickly. Finasteride is a one mg tablet that you take once a day. It is based on the understanding that a certain group of men have male pattern hair loss because of the androgen sensitivity of hair follicles to dihydrotestosterone or DHT. Finasteride inhibits an enzyme called 5 alpha reductase which converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. Unfortunately, people who are losing hair at this young age tend to not respond very well with finasteride. In addition, there are concerns about the sexual side-effects of finasteride so most of our younger patients do not want to take it. I suggest a technology that we developed for the past couple of years called Hair Regeneration. This is based on the serendipitous discovery of a wound healing material called extracellular matrix and its remarkable ability to thicken thinning hair. We developed a combination of extracellular matrix and platelet-rich plasma taken from the patient’s own blood. The blood is spun down to concentrate the platelets with plasma that have growth and healing factors. This is different from a transplant- it's a series of injections that are done one time. What we have observed is a significant improvement in the regression of thinning. In fact, there is a reversal of thinning and thickening of thin hairs. The more recently thinning hairs respond very well and the older thinning hairs respond not as well so timing is important when doing these injections. In our clinical experience, this injection has helped a lot of people. For 3-5 years, we have not any significant trends of needing to repeat injections. We periodically repeat injections as we developed our formulation and we have worked in enhancing results that we have already gotten. I think this is a great opportunity for someone as young as you to at least to save your existing hair and thicken what you already have. I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck, and thank you for your question.
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December 9, 2013
Answer: Do Not Do a Hair Transplant Hi,I see what you mean, but this is not the right time for you to have surgery on your scalp. You are too young, the hair loss is diffuse and you will regret it; maybe now, but for sure later. See an ISHRS doctor for more advice my friend.Dr John E Frank, MD
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Answer: Do Not Do a Hair Transplant Hi,I see what you mean, but this is not the right time for you to have surgery on your scalp. You are too young, the hair loss is diffuse and you will regret it; maybe now, but for sure later. See an ISHRS doctor for more advice my friend.Dr John E Frank, MD
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December 6, 2013
Answer: Early Hair Loss Young men with early hair loss before 18 should see a dermatologist to ensure the correct diagnosis is made. Hair transplantation is not typically performed until the early to mid 20s.
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December 6, 2013
Answer: Early Hair Loss Young men with early hair loss before 18 should see a dermatologist to ensure the correct diagnosis is made. Hair transplantation is not typically performed until the early to mid 20s.
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