Smoking may be associated with age-related hair loss among Asian men, according to a new report. The men's risk for hair loss increased with advancing age, but remained lower than the average risk among white men.
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Fat Synthesizing Enzyme Is Key To Healthy Skin And Hair
Scientists have found that an enzyme associated with the synthesis of fat in the body is also an element in healthy skin and hair.
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Allergy To Hair Dye Increasing
Allergic reactions to hair dye are increasing as more and younger people dye their hair, warn researchers in this week's British Medical Journal. This can lead to dermatitis on the face and, in severe cases, facial swelling may occur.
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New Radiation Technique Helps Brain Cancer Patients Keep Their Hair
Patients whose cancer has spread to the brain can avoid typical hair loss (alopecia) when treated with newer radiation techniques, thereby improving their quality of life while still controlling their cancer, according to a study presented October 16, 2005, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 47th Annual Meeting in Denver.
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Baldness Induced By Dopamine Treatments May Be Reversible
Two women with Parkinson's disease who developed alopecia (baldness) while being treated with the dopamine agonists pramipexole or ropinirole found that the hair loss stopped after the drugs were discontinued and replaced with a new treatment. The study is published in the current issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Why Are Some People Better Candidates for Hair Transplant Surgery?
Just when you think you have found the answer to your issues with balding, you might learn that hair transplant surgery is not for each person. It is disheartening, but do not give up hope until you investigate to determine if you are a possible candidate. You may be surprised.
The most important thing to bear in mind is that you need hair for the hair transplant to your balding areas. The hair has to come from somewhere on your body. Wherever you take the hair from is called the donor site. There can be different donor sites for different individuals.
The most common donor site for hair transplant surgery is on the head. If the sides and back of your head have full gleaming hair, you are in luck. This hair can be used as donor hair to replace hair you have lost on your balding spots. If your hair in these areas is not healthy, you face a difficult problem - where does the surgeon get the hair?
A new procedure allows doctors to use donor hair from other parts of the body. For instance, if a man has a specially hairy chest, some hair can be used from that area as donor hair for the head. This hair transplant procedure requires a surgeon skilled in the latest techniques in order to keep scarring to a minimum.
Another aspect of choosing donor sites is the color of the hair being used in the hair transplant. If it does not match the area around the balding area, it will look unnatural. The texture should be even as well as the waviness or curliness of the donor hair and the area of hair around the balding area.
If you have lost your hair due to genetics, or a family history, you will likely be a good candidate for hair transplant surgery. Men who have hair loss in their families usually have a good idea of the way the baldness pattern will play out.
Your relatives may have had hair that went bald into a horseshoe pattern and held at that stage. If this is the case, your surgeon will know what to expect. Then, he can take "bald-proof" hair from the sides and back of your head as donor hair and perform the hair transplant.
If you have lost your hair because of some kind of trauma or burns, you will also make a good candidate for hair transplant surgery. This is because the hair you still have will probably still be healthy. It will provide good donor hair for your hair transplant. The most likely situation is that you will have enough hair to make this possible. However, if you have lost too much hair, a hair transplant may not be possible.
You can benefit greatly from hair transplant surgery if it is right for you. Do not give up on it until you talk to a surgeon. If your surgeon says that you are not a good candidate for hair transplant surgery, you may want to get a second opinion. However, if you are a good candidate for the procedure, it is nice to know that there is a good reason you are being accepted. It will make you more confident in your surgeon.
The most important thing to bear in mind is that you need hair for the hair transplant to your balding areas. The hair has to come from somewhere on your body. Wherever you take the hair from is called the donor site. There can be different donor sites for different individuals.
The most common donor site for hair transplant surgery is on the head. If the sides and back of your head have full gleaming hair, you are in luck. This hair can be used as donor hair to replace hair you have lost on your balding spots. If your hair in these areas is not healthy, you face a difficult problem - where does the surgeon get the hair?
A new procedure allows doctors to use donor hair from other parts of the body. For instance, if a man has a specially hairy chest, some hair can be used from that area as donor hair for the head. This hair transplant procedure requires a surgeon skilled in the latest techniques in order to keep scarring to a minimum.
Another aspect of choosing donor sites is the color of the hair being used in the hair transplant. If it does not match the area around the balding area, it will look unnatural. The texture should be even as well as the waviness or curliness of the donor hair and the area of hair around the balding area.
If you have lost your hair due to genetics, or a family history, you will likely be a good candidate for hair transplant surgery. Men who have hair loss in their families usually have a good idea of the way the baldness pattern will play out.
Your relatives may have had hair that went bald into a horseshoe pattern and held at that stage. If this is the case, your surgeon will know what to expect. Then, he can take "bald-proof" hair from the sides and back of your head as donor hair and perform the hair transplant.
If you have lost your hair because of some kind of trauma or burns, you will also make a good candidate for hair transplant surgery. This is because the hair you still have will probably still be healthy. It will provide good donor hair for your hair transplant. The most likely situation is that you will have enough hair to make this possible. However, if you have lost too much hair, a hair transplant may not be possible.
You can benefit greatly from hair transplant surgery if it is right for you. Do not give up on it until you talk to a surgeon. If your surgeon says that you are not a good candidate for hair transplant surgery, you may want to get a second opinion. However, if you are a good candidate for the procedure, it is nice to know that there is a good reason you are being accepted. It will make you more confident in your surgeon.
How Hair Is Placed in Hair Transplant Surgery
Hair transplant surgery starts, after anesthesia is practiced, with removing donor tissue. Follicular units are then taken away from the tissue using a stereomicroscope. Skilled nurses and technicians do all this. The insertion of the hair into the receptor sites comes afterward.
When the follicular units for the hair transplant are dismembered out of the donor tissue, technicians set them to one side in a saline solution. The temperature must be perfect or the small grafts will not survive the procedure. This is done with care in order to guarantee a good result.
The general practitioner will make small incisions into the scalp where the hair transplant grafts are to go. These are called the receptor sites. They are made with a very slim surgical needle. The surgeon must have an eye for detail to suitably set the receptor sites. He must also be very artistic to accomplish a natural look, particularly at the hairline.
The direction the hair grows, both on the front of the head and at the crown, are very important, too. The doctor must make the condition of the newly placed hair look like the patient's own natural scalp hair. The angle that the hair is put in ascertains how much it will stand up from the head.
Once the surgeon has made all the hair transplant incisions that lay out the design he has created, the specially trained surgical team takes over. They use his plan to realize his goals, and in turn the goals of the patient. The surgeon does the groundwork for them when he does his incisions.
The surgical team takes care to get every hair transplant graft into the receptor sites as they have been laid out. They waste no time, though, because the small grafts are vulnerable when their follicles are outside of the skin. The goal is to get the grafts in as quickly as possible while staying true to the design.
Next, the doctor looks over the hair transplant for quality control. He may take a good deal of time tweaking the placement of grafts before he is satisfied that they are all set properly into their receptor sites in a pleasing fashion. When he gives the ok, the surgical technicians again take over the patient's care.
The grafts will be more permanently set into place when the technicians dry them by blowing a cool blow dryer across them. This makes them adhere in their place so that no bandages are necessary. The patient will be asked to bring, or will be given, a baseball cap for the ride home from the hair transplant procedure.
The doctor will want to see how the grafts are doing the day following the hair transplant. The patient will go in for a check-up so that any problems can be corrected quickly. If that is not possible, at least plans can be made to correct them at a future time.
At this point, the doctor will have done his job with the hair transplant procedure. All that remains are periodic checkups. If the hair loss is ample, there may be more procedures, but all the hair transplant surgeries will be done with the same measure of care.
When the follicular units for the hair transplant are dismembered out of the donor tissue, technicians set them to one side in a saline solution. The temperature must be perfect or the small grafts will not survive the procedure. This is done with care in order to guarantee a good result.
The general practitioner will make small incisions into the scalp where the hair transplant grafts are to go. These are called the receptor sites. They are made with a very slim surgical needle. The surgeon must have an eye for detail to suitably set the receptor sites. He must also be very artistic to accomplish a natural look, particularly at the hairline.
The direction the hair grows, both on the front of the head and at the crown, are very important, too. The doctor must make the condition of the newly placed hair look like the patient's own natural scalp hair. The angle that the hair is put in ascertains how much it will stand up from the head.
Once the surgeon has made all the hair transplant incisions that lay out the design he has created, the specially trained surgical team takes over. They use his plan to realize his goals, and in turn the goals of the patient. The surgeon does the groundwork for them when he does his incisions.
The surgical team takes care to get every hair transplant graft into the receptor sites as they have been laid out. They waste no time, though, because the small grafts are vulnerable when their follicles are outside of the skin. The goal is to get the grafts in as quickly as possible while staying true to the design.
Next, the doctor looks over the hair transplant for quality control. He may take a good deal of time tweaking the placement of grafts before he is satisfied that they are all set properly into their receptor sites in a pleasing fashion. When he gives the ok, the surgical technicians again take over the patient's care.
The grafts will be more permanently set into place when the technicians dry them by blowing a cool blow dryer across them. This makes them adhere in their place so that no bandages are necessary. The patient will be asked to bring, or will be given, a baseball cap for the ride home from the hair transplant procedure.
The doctor will want to see how the grafts are doing the day following the hair transplant. The patient will go in for a check-up so that any problems can be corrected quickly. If that is not possible, at least plans can be made to correct them at a future time.
At this point, the doctor will have done his job with the hair transplant procedure. All that remains are periodic checkups. If the hair loss is ample, there may be more procedures, but all the hair transplant surgeries will be done with the same measure of care.
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