HAIR TRANSPLANT – 4300 Grafts in 1 surgery covering almost entire balding area…

May 8th, 2012 No comments

May 7/12, we had a gentleman come in and he received 4300 grafts: 1400 single hairs and appx 1450 doubles and 1450 triple grafted hairs for a total of 8650 hairs in one session. See the post-op photos below. (NOTE: You can click on each photo to see a close up of the hairline etc) The patient is over the moon right after surgery and I will update his photos as he progresses. WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS? I have spoken time and time again about so many clinics saying the can get 4000+ grafts – but when you see the area covered or the after photo they look like they received only about 2000 grafts! This is because, as I have said time and time again, that most clinics slur the lines of reality and use hairs instead of grafts. Most clinics can get 4000 hairs with their eyes close – there’s only a handful who can get 9000 hairs in one pass – I am unaware of anyone in Ontario doing this to be frank…

What this means to you is that if you get a surgery for 6000+hst and get 2000 grafts – you will get have the coverage as this man who spent 9000+ hst. So you save 3000 on the first surgery sure, but you got lied to about the number of grafts vs hairs and in the end need a second surgery at 6000+hst to get another 2000 grafts. Thus you spent 12000+hst, had to wait 1 year between surgeries and have to go through the downtime a second time and wait two years for the final result vs 1 year. Who would do that? Where does that make sense? Again, time and time again, I say – go to one of the best. Pictures don’t lie. We covered almost the entire head in one pass. That’s one spicy a meat a ball!

Remember – these photos are only 30 minutes after surgery which is why you see blood etc – he’ll be completely healed and back to normal in 7 days. He has sitch removal in a weeks time and I’ll post his 10 day post op pics.

Enjoy!

Paul-Joseph
HTP Specialist
hairtransplants@surehair.com
416 747 7873

This is what I live for as a specialist in my field. When we get a case which I can show the world at what this clinic can do – something very few clinics can.

ONLINE HAIR LOSS SITES/BLOGS ETC…WHY YOU SHOULD TRUST THEM AND NOT TRUST THEM…

April 25th, 2012 Comments off

Hmmm. I was reading several blogs today as I always do. I find it so interesting how my opinion of blogs and the online community has changed since my journey of hair loss began. After my bad hair hair tranpslant I turned to the internet to do research and find good clinics. The online hair loss forums absolutely helped me – much like the articles which I am writing will help you! However, I want to talk about the underside or the inside scoop on the online sites which have threads, open discussion, people writing etc.

1) They are good beginning resource to get knowledge about hair transplants. Unfortunately the information is everywhere so you have so spend a lot of time searching for specific information – which is why I have tried and am trying to build a one stop shop and overview of the important info you need to know about hair loss.

PROBLEMS:

Here’s what I did not know before which I know now. For almost all the sites you go to which has “Neutral reviews” by the online community is not really neutral at all. What do I mean?

Simply: someone owns that site and is trying to make money off of it. I don’t blame them – god bless capitalism – but the reality is that this taints the information you read.

Here’s how it works.

1) In ontario for example the Ontario College of Physicians does not allow any clinic in hair tranpsplants to post about their Doctors, have stories about them and give opinions from clients. We can show B&A photos but that’s the extent of it. The most common question I get is “I tried to do research on your clinic but there’s no information on the clinic on the hair loss forums. This is not by accident! We are not legally allowed to! However, just because we’re not on there does not mean we are not one of the best clinics going and just because a clinic is on there does not mean they’re actually good or any good at all.

2) In order for any clinic to post on these sites they have to be a “member”. What does that mean? I.e. any clinic has to PAY to be ON the Site to ADVERTISE. This means that in order for our clinic to post on these sites we would have to pay. We recently looked into it about a year ago and they loved the work we were doing; however, because there was a local clinic posting and paying to be on the site, they told us that they did not want to have us on the site at the moment because it would be conflicting for the other local clinic already paying.

WAIT A SECOND. So if our work is better (which it is). If we are more honest. Ethical. Do the right thing for our patients. Which means we should be the choice for those seeking a great clinic in Ontario, dare I say Eastern Canada and Central Canada and parts of the USA, because some schmoe who does ok work is paying, we’re not allowed? How is this fair? Is this unbias? Exactly.

What happens when you are on these sites. No one – I mean no one – who is on these sites knows anyone outside of the online communities roaring and cheering of the doctors who are on these sites – which means that they support those clincis paying to be members of these sites because other competitors are not allowed to post on them.

I can see any one of these sites reading this and saying “That is not true, any patient can post!”. However, here’s the problem. 1) Our patients are not legally allowed to post! If they do and the Ontario College of Physicians sees it they can levy heavy penalties on our clinic and Doctor (to the point of revoking his ability to practice medicine). 2) The sites are very bias and will always say the same thing and cheerlead their guys they have seen and supported on these sites.

Now, is this to say that these sites are not good resources? They are! They are good resources for information. However, like anything on the internet, there needs to be an uderstanding of how these sites come to be and at the end of the day – they are not neutral, they are BIAS, they are what they are. Ways to make money :D

The only way to really know who is really good is look at the before and after photos and videos of clinics. Our photos are all in natural lighting, same camera, no tricks, not gimmicks no anything. The before and after photos on our site – including Hair Transplants, Laser Light Therapy, and any other product are all taken truthfully and honestly. I know because if they were not I would not work here :D

So be careful what you read and judge based upon what sounds true and makes sense. Even question what I am writing (although everything I am writing is true is still my opinion) as you need to gauge everything from your own opinion, read the wealth of knowledge and make an informed decision based upon what you SEE, not what other people tell you – especially some website where they don’t tell you that clinics pay to be on them.

There’s my rant for the day.

Paul-Joseph
HTP Advisor
hairtransplants@surehair.com

Hair Transplant: What to expect emotionally, before booking, booking and waiting for the hair to grow.

April 20th, 2012 Comments off

CU of my hairline :D

My Hair Transplant hairline :D

If you’re reading these articles for the first time, I am proud to say that I have finally been able to build a very large wealth of information on the specifics of hair transplants below this article. If you read from this article to the beginning of 2012 prior to coming in for a consult – you will really know almost everything you need to know. I’ve done this because I want the consumer to know a few things…

I’m going to go on a tangent, but it’s important, skip the next paragraph to get to the articles main purpose if you like.
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The world of hair loss has been built upon a lot marketing schemes and fake promises. I see people get butchered, lied to, promised things which can’t happen every day when they come in and tell me what other clinics have said. Magic ointments for only 4000 dollars which will regrow your hair is my favourite…the worst is when bald guys with bad plugs come in and have a 35cm scar which should have given them 3500 grafts but only have 300 or 400 grafts and a long scar to show for it – they were told they’d get a full head of hair…I feel so bad for them. However, these lessons and sad tragedies, if verbalized to you, will stop the next generation from getting butchered and making the mistakes those unfortunate many of us made. Through all the lies and fake promises there is one simple truth…there are a rare select few places that really want you to know the truth, be educated and understand not only the science, but an in depth understanding of what is going on. By doing so, you will realize what I have known from the years of research: you will see why we and a few select clinics are the best in the world and why so many clinics lie – because they can’t do what the elite can and have to lie to make it look on paper like they can or simply…don’t mind lying to you to make money off you. It’s cosmetic surgery and there are millions to be made the more you lie. It’s easy to fool someone and appeal to their emotions over such a traumatic thing as hair loss. I know – I was fooled into a horrible transplant years ago too at another clinic…

I have the rare joy of saying truly: Here at our surgical centre – I don’t have to fool you – because you understanding the truth and what to expect means you can see very quickly why what we do here is amazing and why our transplants are truly natural and mimick mother nature’s imperfect perfections. It angers me with a passion that so many people are lied to, hurt and forever changed in a negative way, not to mention spending thousands of dollars of their own money…just like I did. I never thought I would work in this field, but I know at least that for every person who reads these articles is one more person who gets it. I want to thank you for reading and this company for giving me the platform to have a voice.
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What to expect from a transplant.

I’m not going to talk about the mechanics and science of a hair transplant in this article. I have covered that before and there’s a lot of info on our main sites. What I am going to talk about is the most important part – the emotional side. What you will experience prior to surgery, during surgery and afterwards.

I’ll tell you through my story.

Before my first transplant, I found a local guy doing surgeries near where I grew up, and got a surgery. I was promised 1500-2000 grafts. 7 months later I could count about 100-200 grafts. I lost 1300-1700 grafts, which if you have been reading the articles, you will know that those hairs are lost and never grow back. It means one day if I go bald I will not have enough hair to fill the crown.

So for my second transplant, I began doing research, years and years of research (the joke is that I did a BA in Hair transplants) and looked at every site, every photo in great detail, every blog, article, before and after photo I could get my hands on. I began to sift through the bull S*&$ and see the science and math of the work behind the great advertising and touched up before and after photos on so many sites. Eventually I knew I was going to get my repair work done…and at one point thereafter I began to overthink it and got myself into a tailspin. I think I almost talked myself out of the second surgery a hundred times. One day – I just did it. Got nervous, freaked out leading up to the surgery until the surgery date happened. On the day of surgery I showed up nervous and then!!! I slept lol through the surgery. I remember thinking “Why did I worry so much?”. That night, I went out with my friends. The next day, I went out again – I put a hat on and lived my life. It was not nearly as big of a deal as I had made it out to be from a recovery stand point. I had staples put in vs stithces on my second surgery to minimize scarring in the donor and trust me, the worse part is the metal in the back of the head. Other than that – it’s really not a big deal. Actually, the hardest part is probably just sitting in the chair on surgery date for 8-14 hours :D

The most difficult part came around the 1 month mark where all the transplanted hairs shed and I had to wait 3-6 months for the hair to grow. Every day I would look in the mirror for an hour driving myself insane to try to see if they would grow…hoping the would. Literally, I had been through so much hell just for my hair I just wanted to be done with my hair loss and move the heck on. Finally, one day – 3 months later – I started to see little hairs sprouting. I can not tell you the joy I felt. Yet it happened, all my worrying, hours lost looking in the mirror changed nothing – I wasted so much time worrying. The hair slowly grew in and around the 6 month mark – I did something I had not done in 5 years, I got out of the shower, slicked my hair back with my brand new hairline and walked out the door. The freedom! Wind blowing no problem, any style, could do it. I kept looking in the windows of shops for about 2 or 3 months afterwards making sure I had my hair because I would always look in the windows before so upset I was balding at 21. It killed me. But every time I looked in the mirror – there was hair. It was there. It was around the 1 year mark I realized – I would always have that hair. That hairline, full, thick, forever! I can not tell you how amazing it was. It’s been 6 years since my repair surgery, I am now 31 and I still have a full head of hair. It’s a miracle in my eyes…but most just call it an amazing surgeon doing cutting edge science.

Every day, I still look in the mirror in awe of how tragic going bald can be for some men and women, how much more horrible a bad transplant can destory your life, and how much more, incredibly more, so much so – I don’t have words for it – how truly liberating, amazing and wonderous an amazing transplant will forever change you. It’s not just hair, it’s the confidence, the freedom, the feeling you get by how society defines us by our exterior. It is sad that the world and ourselves judge us so superficially yes, however, it is our nature and that freedom from it in regards to hair loss is something that still awes me every day. Every time I book a guy or girl in for a transplant I feel so happy because I have been down that road and I know how it all works out in the end. Every time someone calls me 6 months later and they can’t believe they have hair I get so excited. Every time someone comes back and shows me their hair, I can’t help but smile.

So What does my story mean to you?

1) Don’t overthink it from an emotional stand point. I.e. know the information and understand it, but once you have come to the conclusion its something you want to do – don’t think yourself into a stalemate. You’re always going to be nervous, even after the transplant waiting for the hair to grow. You’ll be nervous for months, until one day – the hair grows. It’ll only be a full year later that you are overwhelmed that you have hair in places on your head you have not had it for years…maybe even decades:D It won’t be until 1 full year after you made the decision to get a hair transplant (at a great clinic who does great work) that you will finally realize how life changing it truly is.

My best advise is always the same when someone books a surgery: “Congrats! You just made a hard decision to get a hair transplant. Now forget about it. Forget about the transplant before surgery, forget about it after and live yourlife as you normally would until suddenly you wake up one day and you have hair again :D

Got Questions? Losing hair? What an honest opinion?
Email me or call: hairtransplants@surehair.com/416 747 7873

Paul-Joseph
Hair Transplant Advisor: I am a hair loss victim, repair case, guru and just love having all my hair!
:D

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Hair transplant hairlines: Recreating Mother Nature’s Imperfect Perfections

April 18th, 2012 Comments off

Having worked as a Hair Transplant Advisor for 5 years, I field questions, myths, realities and wake up calls on a daily basis. I do so because I myself once looked in the mirror and saw hair loss and decided to get a hair transplant at a random clinic which resulted in a horrible looking, unnatural and pluggy hairline which sent me into a depression for years. My salvation came at the hands of the Surgical Centre of Sure Hair International in 2006 who repaired my bad transplant and gave me the natural hairline I enjoy today. In the articles throughout this page you will see a truly comprehensible and detailed outline of anything/everything you need to know about a hair transplant.

Paul-Joseph. Hair Transplant Guru (Technically Advisor – but Guru sounds cool!) :D
Hairtransplants@surehair.com or call 416 747 7873

This article is going to talk about hair transplant hairline design and the shortcomings of most hair transplant clinics. The best way to show this is take our favourite people – celebs.

Look below: we have David Beckham and that other guy… NEITHER HAVE HAD ANY WORK DONE! TRUST ME :D WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT IS LUCKY MEN WITH FULL HEADS OF HAIR!! However look at their hairlines carefully. Let’s start with Beckham.

If you look at Beckhams hairline from the right temple going towards the mid-frontal tuft you will see that the hair closest to the right temple angles forward and slowly begins to angle inward towards the mid-frontal tuft. The hair are not all straight forward – nature does not make hairlines with the hairs all anlged in the same direction facing the same angle and direction.

Let’s take a look at our second example. You will see that our buddy Jake’s hair goes in the opposite direction from the mid-frontal tuft towards the right temple point. It is possible that he has put in a lot of gel or product and angled it this way; however, there are a lot of individuals (Brad Pitt comes to mind; heard he was engaged to Angelina Jolie, probably because of his hairline IMO) who have this type of angulation naturally.

The point is that when you see a transplant, and let’s say that the you can not detect or see the holes made from the transplant or the transplant itself looks “good” – the average joe is still going to look at the hairline and think “There’s still something not quite truly natural about it”

Well – I can tell you quite simply it is the angulation. The issues is that it is quite hard to do this, takes a lot of time not only to train the planters to perfect this and then the actual time to plant and angle each hair at a slightly different angle, and this is why the norm in the industry is “all hairs face the same angle and hey it looks pretty good so there ya go”. It is my personal opinion that if you want a truly natural hairline you need to be cognisant of this and ensure you get it done. How many clinics out there do this? I’m unsure – sadly not many and far and few between. Do you want a good – even great transplant? Or do you want natural like you had before that you can’t even classify as a transplant because it does not look like one. That’s a no brainer to me. Here’s a before and after of a hair transplant done at our clinic and a close up of the angulation 10 days post op of a different patient. That’s care! That’s a truly undetectable hairline with the natural angulations mimicked by hand. I think DaVinci himself would look at that hairline and think over an Italian Dinner “That’s one spicy meat a ball hairline!”
(I’m hungry, forgive the non-sensical hairline = spicy meatball referance).

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TREATMENTS VS HAIR TRANSPLANTS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW/CONSIDER PART 2

April 18th, 2012 Comments off

This article is the second part of treatment and transplants. Please read article 1 below this one prior.

Treatments work! YES! However, as I wrote in Part 1, you must understand what “WORK” means.
All too often I see patients from other clinics who got suckered into spending thousands of dollars on treatments that are not even approved/proven/shown to work or are suckered into treatments that do work but only under certain circumstances. Again read article 1 to know what the overview of these are.

Paul-Joseph. Hair Transplant Guru (Technically Advisor – but Guru sounds cool!) :D
Hairtransplants@surehair.com or call 416 747 7873

On to Transplants and Treatments. Again, this article really is long overdue.

Let’s start off with men:

Patient 1 is 50 years old walks in and looks like this:

Patient 2 is 20 years old walks in and looks like this:

Yes of course this is the same photo. Realize though that we get guys with the exact type of hair loss pattern but one may only be 20 years of age and the other 60 years of age. The approach, though the hair loss pattern is the same, is very different.

For patient 2 (20 years of age), I would tell him that he has extensive hair loss for his age and that he MUST do treatments in order to hold on to his hair. Why? For the simple reason – with hair loss so young – he is going to lose far more hair. The earlier your hair loss begins the more you are going to lose (this is not always true but 95% of the time it does). I’ll then explain to him that if he loses more than 50% of his hair we will never have enough hair available in the areas we take hair from for hair transplants to give him back a full head of hair. Does this make sense? Meaning – over a lifetime the average gentleman over many surgeries will have up to about 10,000 grafts we can take. Meaning if you lose more than 10,000 grafts (most guys have about 25,000-30,000 grafts on their head in the areas they can lose it) you mathematically wont have enough hair available to replace the grafts you lost.

The key here is understanding that treatments are MOST effective for those who have barely lost any hair. Yes you may thicken your hair, but why worry about thickening your hair if you start on treatments at the first sign of hair loss when you have an almost full head of hair? It’s a no brainer.

For patient 1: I’d ask him what his goals are. If he said he was reasonable happy with the head of hair he had and wanted to try to slightly thicken the hair – I’d tell him to do treatments as there is a high percent chance (60-80% depending the degree of re-growth) to thicken his hair. If he said he wanted a lot more hair – I would tell him to do a hair transplant. I would not tell this patient he needs or MUST do treatments at his age as he is unlikely to lose a lot more hair. This would be at his personal discretion but not a necessity due to his age unlike patient 2.

As a general rule of thumb, younger patients are best to do treatments to begin with and older patients (let’s say 40 an up) need to weigh the financial and results in pros and cons of treatments to decide if it is worth it to them.

Females:

I won’t show a photo. Right now – the reality is very simple. When females lose hair they lose the hair universally in a diffused thinning pattern thoughout the entire head in about 95% of cases. In this instance – if you have genetic hair loss and are female – even if you wanted to do a hair transplant – I would explain to you that unlike men who have a safe zone at the back and sides of the head which will never die, females do not have a safe zone. This means that even if I take hair from the sides and back of the head and transplant these grafts into the hairline or crown, because they are not genetically resistant to hair loss, there is a high percent chance that those hairs will fall out over the course of several years as the hair loss progresses. What this means is that a female MUST do treatments first to stabilize hair loss and after 6month to 2 years when we are certain the treatments are effective we can then say to a female patient they can do a transplant provided they continue using treatments to ensure the transplanted hairs will not fall out. If we do a hair tranpslant on them and they decide to discontinue treatments then their genetic hair loss will continue and they will lose the transplanted hairs along with the rest of the hair.

I hope this was helpful. In the next article I will talk about Laser Light Therapy (LLLT), what it does and provide photos to show REALISTIC results that you can expect from it.

Stay Tuned!

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TREATMENTS VS HAIR TRANSPLANTS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW/CONSIDER PART 1

April 18th, 2012 Comments off

This is an article which is probably long overdue. The topic of treatments and transplants. Which is right? Which is best?
The first question I always ask when someone walks into our office is: What are you hoping we can do for you? Some people look at me like “Well it’s your job to tell me” and I tell them that we have a wide array of technology/science that we have at our disposal to help you with your hair loss – each delivers a different result and serves as a different function. It depends what you want!
I WANT TO BE CLEAR HERE. THIS IS COSMETIC SURGERY – IT’S MY JOB TO HELP YOU BE HAPPY WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR.

Have questions! Write me: Paul-Joseph, Hair Transplant Guru (Technically Advisor – but Guru sounds cool!) :D
Hairtransplants@surehair.com or call 416 747 7873

I have had guys and girls walk in with more hair than I can believe saying they don’t like how thin their hair is. I have also had guys walk in with Homer Simpson hair happy where they are at and just wanting keep what little hair they have left – I get it all – at the end of the day it’s your perception of what you want that guides me with you through the process on the journey to get more hair.
That being said, here’s the science behind the technologies we have available.
1) Treatments work. End of story. That’s it. When I say treatments I am referring to 3 in particular.
a) Laser Light Therapy b) Propecia c) Rogaine
I’ll go into detail on the functions of these in a later article due to the length and time to cover these; however, sufficed to say that these 3 treatments have been scientifically proven to work in combating hair loss.
Here’s the issue: what does proven to work mean? I have seen these treatments work over and over again; however, I always read online – “they don’t work, it didn’t work for me what a rip off, it’s fake!”
These comments have been contrary to what I have seen over the past several years so I started asking patients when they came in who said they were on them and they didn’t work why they felt they didn’t work. I found the results very interesting. Reasons were :
1) Well, I didn’t get any hair back
2) I used it for 3 months and nothing happened
3) I used it for a year and I saw no change.
I know face palm my hand to head and smack head on desk.
You see – people don’t know what “work” means.

1) Well, I didn’t get any hair back
I Look at the guy or girl and one of a few things happens.
A) The area they wanted to “grow” hair back didn’t have any hair! We do not yet have the technology to grow hair back once it is dormant. The only hair we can improve upon is visible hair (either with the naked eye or upon magnified view with use of technological devices). I have had people completely bald complaining it didn’t work! Well of course not! That’s not what it is mean or designed to do. I’m going to cut everyone slack here and say that there is a lot of fake advertising online and in the hair loss industry which may confuse things; however, not one legit place has ever said LLLT would grow back hair that is gone. It just can’t, won’t, doesn’t work that way.
B) I explain that the most important function of LLLT is to PREVENT future hair loss not THICKEN!!!! Here’s the deal. The sooner you start LLLT the better it will work. It will prevent losing more hair. This is almost a guarantee that by using LLLT with Propecia and Rogaine you will halt your hair loss or slow it do a tortoise running a marathon type of slow. There’s a good chance you will see growth, but that is not an absolute and you have to walk into it understanding the realities. If a 20 year old man or woman with hair loss walks into our clinic, I tell them absolutely to start treatments right away to hold on to their hair. Often they come back 2 or 3 years later when their hair loss has become so bad that it really bothers them and I explain that LLLT would have prevented this loss and I can’t get their hair back to where it was 3 years ago with technology. IT IS SO FRUSTRATING!
2) I used it for 3 months and nothing happened
This one kills me – it takes 6 months to a year to see results! 3 months…who said anything about a few months?
3) I used it for a year and I saw no change.
I only get frustrated when people say this. You’re telling me that if you have been losing a lot of hair for several years and that in 1 year you have not noticed more hair loss you are upset? Are you kidding me? That’s pretty amazing to say you stopped your hair loss considering you were going bald faster than a cheetah in the Serengeti.
I’m also going to address the cost of treatments. Another frustration. People always come to us and say “Why are they so expensive?”
1) Do you go to a dentist and ask them why it costs 1000′s of dollars? What about an Optometrist for Laser Eye Surgery? What about Laser Hair Removal? What about any cosmetic procedure? Why are they expensive when they work? Because there is a demand and they work! Why would hair loss be any different? If you want good hair, teeth, eyes etc etc you must pay for these things and they are of course hefty in price but are costly due to the fact they work and there is a demand for them.
Bottom line is this. TREATMENTS WORK! GET ON THEM THE SECOND YOU NOTICE YOUR HAIR LOSS!! WHY? BECAUSE THEY HOLD ON TO HAIR…THE SOONER YOU START THE MORE HAIR YOU WILL KEEP!!
IF you have read this and wait 5 years until your hair loss really bothers you, you have only yourself to blame for not having the hair you love and wanted to keep. You know now that they work, so it’s your choice.
The article was long. I’ll be going into Treatments VS Transplants and what to consider in the following article.

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Laser Light Therapy Before and After

May 5th, 2012 No comments

Client 5- Before Laser

Client 5- After Laser

Client 4- After Laser

Client 4- Before Laser

Before

patient 985 after

patient 4 crown before

Patient 4 Crown. photo 2.

ptient 12 before

patient 12 9 month

patient 8 before

Patient 8 after

Before

After

Here is an update on some of the Laser Light Therapy photo before and afters.

First I’ll start with men:

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Hair Transplants into Scars: Scalp Reductions, Bad Scars from accidents, facelifts etc

April 23rd, 2012 Comments off

I get quite a few questions about individuals with scars and whether or not we can transplant into them. The quick answer is yes, but with a lower graft survival rate (let’s say 50% of the grafts will grow).

When you cut the skin, you change the physiology of the components that it is made up of when it heals back. Hence why you see a change in the texture and colour of the skin in the form of a scar. However, although you change the “landscape” of an area of skin including the loss of hair in a given area, the vital requirements (blood vessles etc) for hair to grow in a scar is still there but to a lesser degree than normal skin.

If you take a plant from a warmer climate and were to uproot them and put them into a similar climate but perhaps slightly colder with less than ideal conditions for that specific type of plant or tree you can make an educated guess that some plants would survive and others would not of the same species. This is the same for hair when we transplant grafts into a scar. Some will survive and some will not.

If you have had an accident, facelift, scarring of any sorts – provided it is in an acceptable area of where hair should be – a hair transplant into the scar is the best and truly – the only way with current technology to mask a scar and make it blend in with normal skin when the hair is at a slightly longer length, thus breaking up the scar.

An example of this is seen below of different scars from my own head. One is a before photo of scarring and the other is where hair is used to break up the scar and reduce the visibility of it.

Scar before...

Hair growing out of scar - after....

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Hair Transplants B&A Cont’d

April 19th, 2012 Comments off

Questions? Email me or call: hairtransplants@surehair.com or 416 747 7873.
Paul-Joseph
Hair Transplant Advisor: I am an Enthusiast, Guru, Victim at a bad clinic and now successul Repair case, I got all my damn hair back!

Before

Dense packing - about 40 FU/CM2

Before

Remember the article about proper angulation? Here's a great one to show that.

FULL HEAD OF HAIR! Before is below...1 Hair transplant about 2100 grafts

ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVOURITES....

Before

DENSE PACKING and NATURAL!

Before - 7 days post surgery (I don't have before shot - but it's about the same)

After - Look at that natural hairline!

Here are some more Before and After Hair Transplants:

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Before and After Transplants 2: Repair Case

April 18th, 2012 Comments off

In earlier articles I always talk about pluggy and bad transplants. We specialize in several areas but we are probably most known for our amazing hairlines. See the repair work here by our Staff using the Uni-Stran Technique.

Come an talk to me or email me for questions! Paul-Joseph. Hair Transplant Guru (Technically Advisor – but Guru sounds cool!) :D
Hairtransplants@surehair.com or call 416 747 7873

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Before and After Hair Transplants 1

April 18th, 2012 Comments off

Everyone asks for before and afters. We have a lot at surehairtransplants.com and surehair.com; however, as I’m not a web guy, I thought I’d upload some before and afters for your review. Take a peak and let me know what you think!
Come an talk to me or email me for questions! Paul-Joseph. Hair Transplant Guru (Technically Advisor – but Guru sounds cool!) :D
Hairtransplants@surehair.com or call 416 747 7873

Before...Immediately after surgery....After at about 60% growth! Look at that natural hairline!

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