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Scalp micropigmentation (SMP) side effect - can it cause brain cancer?

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ha2m6i38H3sMar 22, 2021
Hello doctors I want to make scalp micropigmentation for my baldness but i have seen some reviews say that they got cancer in the brain. Would like to ask for your advices if this scalp can make brain cancer or not?

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Dr. William Rassman, MD (retired)
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Answered on Mar 24, 2021
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William Rassman, MD (retired)

After a week from your microneedling, you can have Scalp Micropigmentation as the microneedling should be healed. If you are concerned give it an extra week

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William Rassman, MD (retired)

If the SMP is performed with a light gray with some brown color in it, then you should keep up the hair dying process and the SMP might work provided that the gray roots did not show very much.

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Sanusi Umar, MD

It is possible that SMP could help make the overharvested region look less noticeable. But it really depends on a number of factors. Pigment is really a 2D solution. In other words, pigment applied to an empty skin area will be quite obvious if the surrounding areas are marked by real hair...

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