I am a 37 year old female and received 6 weeks of radiation for a brain tumor. The last treatment was over 6 months ago, and I still have a 3 inch X 4 inch bald spot on the crown of my head covered with only light fuzz, while the rest of the hair has filled in nicely.
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How does donor-ship work for a hair transplant?
In a typical hair transplant, the patient remains both the donor and the recipient of the procedure. This is because, the body does not reject it's own cells. Therefore, when the patient becomes the...
Hair Transplants do work for scarring alopecia and I have had great success with this. This is a somewhat controversial topic in the hair transplant literature. It has been suggested that more studies be done on patients with Lupus and other autoimmune disorders due to poor results that have...
As the hair follicles maintain its original characteristics the curly hair will grow curly and straight hairs grow straight. There is no surgical procedure by which a straight hair can be made to grow curly or vice versa. For making the hair straight or curly one needs a good salon/ cosmetologist.