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.
I had a transplant about one year ago to hide a scar from a brow lift. Unfortunately, the scar is still very visible, but what I’m most worried about is the dramatic thinning of my hair along the donor scar line and below it. In fact, right now, I ha...
As for your donor area, it does sound like you have local infection and inflammation at the site. This could have started, as your doctor said, with an ingrown hair and may have spread to the surrounding area. It could also be what doctors call an “inclusion body” like a stitch...
If I have a hair transplant for my receding hairline will I look strange if I lose more hair behind it? I have limited funds...
My 26 year old son has been losing his hair since about the age of 18. Hair loss runs on my side of the family so I...
The one thing that I keep reading about is the possibility of having a large or stretched scar from a strip hair transplant. I am...
Hair loss in women is a silent epidemic that effects the lives of far more women than is generally recognized by society or medicine. Approximately 40...
I had a hair transplant over 5 years ago and was fully aware that I would need 3 to 4 more hair transplant procedures to cover a bald...
I am a 59 year old female with female pattern thinning, confined to the top, temples and areas of the crown that need comb overs. Mother...
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