Greetings,
Here is a patient of mine who received 2418 grafts to the frontal and mid scalp 8 months ago. The patient discusses his experience in the video and how the hair transplant procedure impacted his appearance.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Today the internet is ablaze with news of a new treatment for baldness. A patient with Alopecia Areata, which is an autoimmune disease which causes the body to attack its own hair follicles causing them to fall out, was treated with a medication used to treat Rheumatoid Arthritis. After a number of months the patient grew back all the hair on his scalp (which he had previously lost because of the alopecia areata). There are many issues to be worked out beginning with the fact that this medication ingested orally can cause a large number of harmful side effects to the body so using it widespread to treat this form of hair loss may be considered dangerous. Also, alopecia areata work by a different mechanism to make hair fall out, so this medication probably would not be effective in typical genetic hair loss which is the most common form of hair loss.
Regardless, this is an exciting development in the treatment of alopecia areata and I would imagine that a topical formulation of this medication could hold significant promise for safe treatment of hair loss secondary to this disease.
I have included a link to the CNN article describing the findings in the original study.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/20/health/baldness-cure-alopecia/
All the best,
Marc Dauer, MD
Greetings,
Here is a hair transplant patient of mine describing his experience undergoing the procedure immediately after the procedure and 2 weeks after the procedure. It provides good insight into the initial time frame of the procedure.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
I would like to share a new video of a hair transplant patient of mine who describes his experience undergoing the procedure and his results 6 months after the procedure. The patient is seeing about 50-60% of the final result at present, but the difference is already dramatic. The patient also describes how the change has affected his life. I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Today I want to share a new hair transplant testimonial of a patient of mine describing his experience undergoing the procedure. The patient is shown 2 weeks after the procedure.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Today I want to share a new patient testimonial of a patient of mine who had FUE, follicular unit extraction of just over 1550 grafts into the frontal scalp. The patient discusses his experience with the procedure and the donor area is shown after 2 weeks with almost no sign of any procedure.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, MD
Greetings,
Here is a new hair transplant testimonial of one of my patients. The results from a single procedure 1 year later are shown as well.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, MD
Greetings,
Here is a patient of mine who underwent an FUE hair transplant. He explains the entire process from his prospective.
It is an enjoyable and educational video.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Here is a video of a patient of mine who received FUE grafts to the frontal scalp, the crown, and into a previous strip scar (created by another physician) to help conceal the strip scar. The results are shown after 7 months and already look dramatic. The patient will have additional cosmetic coverage over the next 7 months as additional transplanted hair grow in a nd continue to thicken in diameter. I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Today I will discuss a patient of mine who presented with a form of scarring alopecia called Lichen Planopilaris. This resulted in the loss of all the hair follicles in the frontal and mid scalp as well as the eyebrows and sideburns. The patient initially thought that the hair loss was androgenic alopecia, but after my examination and subsequent scalp biopsy the diagnosis was confirmed. It is imperative that the hair transplant surgeon has a thorough knowledge of all the forms of alopecia as different causes result in different outcomes and some are candidates for hair transplants and others not.
In this case the biopsy also showed that the scarring alopecia had “burnt out” and was no longer active. We decided to do 3 small areas with test grafts to see if they would grow before considering a more expansive procedure. What we found was excellent growth in all the test areas after only 12 weeks. After discussing with the patient and letting him know that there still is a chance that we won’t see the same growth rate that is seen in healthy scalp, and the patient decided to proceed with a more extensive procedure.
Below you can see the photo before the test grafts and the test grafts that have grown. I will continue to provide updates on this very interesting case.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
This is a patient with scarring alopecia who had test grafts placed into 3 different areas.