Shock Loss

Shock loss or effluvium, the shedding of native hair after hair transplant surgery can potentially effect any hair transplant patient, but in most cases is a temporary phenomenon in which the shocked or shed native hair will regrow.

Physician Answered Q & As

What is the success rate of facial hair restoration and is there visible scarring if I use FUE? How long is the procedure and how long does it take to heal?

If we define success as survival of grafts, facial hair grafts do as well as hair transplant grafts placed in the balding scalp. The key determinant for survival of hair transplant grafts to the face or elsewhere is the technical delicacy with which the grafts are prepared, stored, and handled...

Top Q & As

Can you provide me with information of Dutasteride?

How young is too young to have a hair transplant? I am currently 20 years old and have lost about 40% of my hair. I just began...

I have already signed up to have a hair transplant at the end of July for 3500 follicular unit grafts and I began to wonder how...

My wife keeps telling me that I need a hair transplant so here I am doing some research. Here’s my situation, I am 31 years ol...

I am a female age 64 and had an 800 graft hair replacement done about 5 years ago. Since the thinning on the front and crown has become...

I figure the best way to know what questions to ask a surgeon I may see for possible hair transplant surgery, is to actually ASK...

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The International Alliance of Hair Restoration Surgeons is a consumer organization that selectively screens skilled and ethical hair transplant surgeons. The IAHRS does not offer an open membership policy to doctors practicing hair transplatation, and is the only group that recognizes that all surgeons are not equal in their skill and technique. Its elite membership seeks to represent the best in the discipline, the true leaders in the field of surgical hair restoration.