There are six main characteristics that will determine your suitability for a hair transplant procedure:

1. Age
2. Gender
3. Extent of hair loss
4. Hair type
5. Density
6. Race
7. Scalp laxity

Normally, young patients between the ages of 18 and 25 are not the best candidates. At this age, any existing hair loss is likely to continue, affecting the long-term results of any procedure. Active hair loss at this stage can be best treated by medications.

Gender will affect hair loss, both in pattern and appearance. Generally, men will have localized areas of thinning or complete baldness, while substantial hair remains elsewhere. Women, conversely, will usually have generalized thinning over the complete head. This difference in how the hair is lost tends to make men better candidates for transplants in general.

The extent of your hair loss will also determine whether you have viable donor areas. If your active hair loss has stopped, your transplant surgeon will also have a better chance of placing hair grafts for the best result. Look for an experienced surgeon to evaluate your hair. In the Toronto area, the SureHair clinics are one possible option for good, qualified hair transplant specialists.

Beyond your level of hair loss, your hair type will actually affect whether you are a candidate for hair transplantation. If your hair is thick and coarse, it will provide more coverage than fine hair. Wavy hair is another advantage, as it also provides more coverage than straight hair.

The actual density of hair on your head is key to whether you have enough hair for donation. The more hair that you have remaining on your head once your hair loss has stabilized, the better the chances that you will qualify as a good candidate for a hair transplant.

Your racial background will also play a part in your evaluation. People from Asia typically have very straight hair and fewer hair follicles. Patients with this genetic background will need to ensure that they consult with a surgeon who is familiar with their unique needs.

Individuals of African descent will usually have curly, coarse hair, which results in a much better cosmetic result. Further, darker skin tones will mean there is less contrast between the hair and the skin. One disadvantage for this racial type is that keloid scarring is a much bigger issue, which may mean that donor site scars are more noticeable.

Those of Caucasian descent will have the widest range of hair and skin types. Generally, those with coarse, dense, wavy hair and a skin tone close to their hair color, will have the best results.

Scalp laxity is the last major factor in your suitability for hair transplant. A qualified surgeon can tell you more about this, but the more lax your scalp, the more hair you can harvest for donation.

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Hair loss is an uncomfortable reality for many people. The biggest issue for most of us is that we simply don’t look on the outside the way we feel on the inside! Our hair is thinning; this process ages us and changes our looks.

We want back what we remember.

This is where hair transplants come in. Hair transplantation returns to us a fuller head of hair. We look more like ourselves. We feel more comfortable and more confident in our own skin.

That’s where hair transplants come in. But we need to remember that there are other solutions to a hair loss problem. Hair transplantation is just one of them. And unfortunately, not every person is a good candidate for a hair transplant.

At issue is that hair transplantation is all about hair follicles. In order to be able to benefit from a hair transplant procedure, you must have a good donor site from which your surgeon can harvest hair follicles. If you have already lost too many follicles, then it’s possible that hair transplantation is not for you. But the only way to know is to have your scalp and your unique situation evaluated. This is where a skilled transplant surgeon comes in. A skilled professional will be able to discuss your health, your scalp and your best options.

Those options could include non-surgical hair replacement. Even if you are not a good candidate for a hair transplant procedure, you can still improve your looks and have a fuller head of hair. This is also a great way to solve your hair loss issues if you simply don’t like the idea of a surgical procedure.

One such non-surgical approach is the NT Hair System, which is offered by Sure Hair International. This approach allows you the option of either a permanent or semi-permanent hair enhancement, although most people prefer something permanent. The fact that you can have a permanent hair solution without having surgery is a surprise to many. Not only can you have a head of hair without surgery, you can also choose how much hair to add to your hairstyle. You don’t have to cover your entire head; you get to choose the amount of hair enhancement that you want.

Non-surgical hair replacement will mean that there is no surgery required. However, the new hair will be injected into an extremely thin second layer of skin, so it does involve a procedure to add the hair. The good news is that the new hair looks completely natural. You can’t tell the difference between it and your own. But good results do depend on expert application.

What this means is that you don’t have to worry that you may not be a good candidate for hair transplantation. It’s worth your time to see a professional and have your scalp evaluated. Regardless of your personal situation, you can have the head of hair that you’ve always wanted.

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Happy New Year!! My New Years resolution was to quit smoking – no cigarettes for 36 hours. So forgive me if I write a bit testy today. Not me, just nicotine withdrawal.

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Having worked as a Hair Transplant Consultant for 4 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, saw hair loss and decided to get a hair transplant and received a horrible one at that. It took me years to find a fantastic clinic to restore not only my hairline but my confidence and happiness.

In this series of articles I am going into my favourite subject. Hair Transplant Hairlines!  I originally decided to write these articles because when someone comes in for a consultation, I never have the time to adequately explain why Dr. Ferreira and his team and only several other Doctors in North America (my personal opinion) create phenomenal, natural hairlines while the rest of the clinics remain doing archaic and sometimes (sadly and frustratingly) barbaric work.

In the previous article (December 28th) I used this video as an example of what I see on a regular basis: youtube.com/embed/mXJe48y6FHs

In this article I am going to get into the specifics of what you should be looking for in a clinic when getting a hair transplant. Firstly. You want an undetectable hairline. Above density, coverage and graft count comes naturalness. If you get an unnatural hair transplant, what was the point in the first place?

The landscape of hairlines changed with the advent of the Follicular Unit:

“Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) is a hair restoration technique where a patient’s hair is transplanted in naturally occurring groups of 1 to 4 hairs, called follicular units. Follicular units also contain sebaceous (oil) glands, nerves, a small muscle, and occasional fine vellus hairs. In Follicular Unit Transplantation these small units allow the surgeon to safely transplant thousands of grafts in a single session, which maximizes the cosmetic impact of the procedure.^[1] FUT is considered an advance over older hair transplantation procedures that used larger grafts and often produced a pluggy, unnatural look. In a properly-performed follicular unit transplant, the results will mimic the way hair grows in nature and will be undetectable as a hair transplant.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follicular_unit_transplantation

 The creation of the follicular unit allowed for far more natural results than previous hair transplants! However, this was the first step of many towards truly natural and undetectable hairlines. Things have truly advanced through techniques and trial and error. Grab a cup of coffee, take a deep breathe and go to part 3 above this article. If you’re a hair junky like me, you’re about to get very interested. If you just want more hair (shameless plug, it’s my column, I can do what I want) you have seen how great Dr. Ferreira’s work is so come on down for your free consultation today (I saw a shameless car salesman advert on TV the other day, seemed to work for them) and stop reading this before I make you fall asleep.

Paul-Joseph

Hair Transplant Specialist

416 747 7873

care@surehair.com

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Approximately 3-5 times a week, some guy comes into our clinic with a pluggy, unnatural and sadly horrific hair transplant results that even I cringe at. Sadly, these are transplants being done in 2011 that most of us would think were being done in the 90′s. No wonder the general public always come in saying “yeah, but transplants look fake!” when nothing could be further from the truth when you go to a great clinic. I will now refer you to my previous article about why it is important to go to a top clinic. This article elaborates on the subject and delves deeper into hair transplants.  What’s the difference between a good transplant and bad one? Read below…

Do you like the article? Disagree? Agree? Have questions? Post below and comment or email me directly at care@surehair.com or call 416 747 7873

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The following are comments taken from online complaints which are typical of what I hear all the time in our clinic from previous hair transplant recipients NOT from our office: click on the link to see where these are taken from: http://home1.gte.net/dschrode/newtransplant-tales.htm

“I, too, am dissatisfied with my transplant results. I had a hair transplant 10 months ago and last week had a follow up. When I had my consultation last year Dr. XXX sold me on one of four possible packages small, medium, large and extra large. He told me that a large session ($7,000) would be all I needed and the photos of other clients confirmed this. I do have transplanted hair today but it is 50 -60 percent thinner than what I was led to believe would happen or the photos indicated”

“I only wish that when I had my “surgery” 14 years ago someone had done the same thing or talked me out of it. I was only 24 when I went to xxxx in San Francisco. I received an incredible hard sell and was told that the new hair would be as thick as the hair on the sides of my head and that I would never have to worry about hair loss again. I was an incredibly confident young man and thought that I was facing what I perceived to be a big problem head-on. 

Looking back at photos of me at the time my hair was not even that bad. But 
instead of telling me that and to wait they readily took my money and put 100 plugs just behind my hairline. Of course all the hair around the plugs fell out. It did grow back but much thinner and I believe the “surgery” increased the rate of hair loss over the next 14 years. I now have a lovely corn row patch on each side of my head. At this point I still have barely enough hair to conceal them, IF the wind doesn’t blow and IF my hair does not get wet.  I rue the day I walked into that office. My life has been ruined and I truly feel as if they have stolen my spirit, my soul, and true joy of life.  And for what? A few thousand dollars! Just thinking about it makes me want to vomit. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about this. It is usually my first thought in the morning and last thought at night. I would give anything just to be able to shave my head.   OK enough on that. Do you know of any corrective surgery by reputable doctors?   Unfortunately I also have two ridges of scar tissue under the plugs in addition to the plug scars themselves and the donor scars.”

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Sadly, many many patients come to us as a result of horrible transplant results by clinics who simply lie to make a quick buck. If you read my previous post you will know this happened to me as well. 

So what can you do?

1) Be informed and make sure you go to a good clinic

2) Don’t be fooled by fake promises. If you are told you can achieve a full head of hair, unless you have very little hair loss this is not true.

3) Understand that all clinics claim to get 2500-3000 grafts, yet there is only a handful of clinics which actually can harvest this amount of hair and successfully plant them in one surgery and have them grow. At our clinic this past week we had several cases around 3500 grafts-3700 grafts or appx 6500 hairs. It has taken our team 8 years of consistent work together with over 2000 transplant of 4 million hairs transplanted in order to get to this level. On a side note: come back for the article later this week on cutting grafts and pricing.

4) If you’ve had a bad transplant, like me, know there is hope and you can still have a natural hairline. See the link below.

In the next article I will be talking about hairlines, naturalness and coverage. For now

1) Take a look at repair case—> http://youtu.be/mXJe48y6FHs 

2) Take a look at what a natural and undetectable hair transplant hairline can be achieved in the hands of a skilled doctor–>http://youtu.be/bbuZg7XW9eg

Be informed! Go to a great clinic (notice I didn’t say good…I mean great) and avoid being scammed and butchered!

Paul-Joseph

SHI Hair Transplant Specialist

416 747 7873

Care@surehair.com

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Having worked as a Hair Transplant Consultant for 4 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.

Do you have questions? Comments? Do you like the article? Leave your thoughts, comments and disagreements! You can write or email me personally at care@surehair.com or call me at 416 747 7873.

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Like many, I went to the nearest Doctor performing hair transplants in my area. He quoted me $3000 dollars and said I would get 1200 grafts. The day of surgery, he removed a 12cm strip of hair from the back of my head. This should have yielded about 1200 grafts. 6 months later I could only count about 50 grafts which had grown, were pluggy and not natural looking in any way.  Let me tell you: the only thing worse than going bald is willingly paying someone to make you look even worse.

From that I began researching online, talking to veterans of the hair loss world and digested as much information as I could. If you are looking in the mirror as I once did and are unhappy with your hair loss, before you decide to jump in and get a hair transplant, here are some things for consideration.

1) This is a cosmetic procedure and a very difficult one at that. You are going to wear, night and day, in full view of anyone you meet the results of this procedure. If your son, daughter, wife or husband needed a cosmetic procedure done, would you go to just anyone? Of course not. You would find a highly skilled, specialized and qualified clinic to do the work. For some reason, when it is for ourselves we think differently in terms of trying to save cost. In the world of hair transplants, saving money should fall behind naturalness, quality results and experience in the clinic.

All too often, I see patients, just like myself who went to another clinic, received horrible results and come to us to repair their bad transplants. The money they thought they were saving resulted in a horrible cosmetic result leaving them depressed, upset and having no choice but to pay top dollar to fix the mistake when by simply going to a top clinic they would have received a great result and saved time, money and of course the hastle of having a second surgery. The most significant consideration is that WE HAVE LIMITED HAIR FOR A TRANSPLANT! A common belief is that hair regrows once taken from another area. This could not be further from the truth. Remember that 1200 grafts I was SUPPOSED to get and only received 50? Those 1150 grafts didn’t magically regrow. I LOST 1150 grafts. I can never get them back and if I lose too much hair, those 1150 grafts can be the difference between having hair or a bald spot. There are so many reasons to understand that in the world of cosmetic surgery you need to go to not only a good clinic, but a great clinic. It costs more at these clinics because the staff is extremely talented and as in any business the better you are the more you have to be paid. By paying more you are paying for the best results and ensuring a good result. There are no shortcuts to getting a great result, no winning by cheaping out and in the end it is you who has to live with a horrible result.

Fortunately there are a handful of great clinics that are available that do top work. Dr. Ferreira and his staff have worked together for over 8 years performing well over 2000 hair transplants. That is about 4 million transplanted hairs as a team. You don’t want to be the patient who spends less at an inexperienced clinic so they can cut you open and make mistakes on you to get better. Be smart, informed and make the decision to get the best results possible. Go to a great clinic to get a great result and be happy when you look in the mirror!

Paul-Joseph

Hair Transplant Consultant

Care@surehair.com

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