Hair loss is a gradual process that becomes more and more prominent overtime for many people. It is normal to experience hair loss everyday, and the typical number of hairs lost is about 100 per day. You do not usually notice this because losing 100 hairs per day is insignificant when compared to the 100,000 [...]

Propecia (finasteride) is a medication that is used to help prevent male pattern baldness or hair loss (androgenic alopecia) that affects the vertex and the mid-scalp area of the head. Male pattern hair loss is a widespread condition that affects the head hair by causing the hair to thin and eventually leave a bald spot. Male pattern [...]

After eyebrow transplantation The patient in this picture was concerned about the sparseness of his eyebrows. He has had issues with this problem since childhood. He went to Dr. Umar for his eyebrow restoration procedure, and Dr. Umar transplanted 650 nape hairs to the patchy areas of his eyebrows. Eyebrow transplantation using traditional strip method [...]

The patient shown in this photo had undergone strip surgeries at another clinic years prior to seeing Dr. Umar in Los Angeles. The outcomes of the strip surgeries created problems for the patient with the most severe ridging, a hairline packed densely with large plugs, and strip scars. The patient hid his disfiguring hairline by [...]

The patient presented in this video had level 3 hair loss including hairline recession. He came to Dr. Umar in Los Angeles looking for a conservative hair restoration, a natural looking soft hairline, and no linear scarring. Dr. Umar used 1450 grafts derived from the patient’s nape and head to achieve these goals. After 8 [...]

All hair types can be successfully extracted by Single Follicle Extraction and Transfer SFET regardless of skin type with absolutely no need for any kind of testing. Hair from any part of the body can be extracted intact and used as needed. A session can be as big as a 15,000 graft transplant procedure. This [...]

Here you can see the results of the first documented successful case of using transplanted body hair to restore the hair of this patient’s legs. The patient had lost hair on his shins due to a previous trauma, had had undergone failed restoration attempts at another clinic before turning to Dr. Umar for help. Using [...]

This video shows the Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) hair transplantation procedure performed by Dr. Umar, a leading body hair transplant and FUE surgeon in his Redondo Beach hair clinic in Los Angeles, CA. Sometime patients cannot afford large numbers of grafts or repeated hair transplantation surgeries in order to restore their hair loss or to [...]

Harvesting hair from the head donor area and harvesting from the beard have differences that should be taken into account, such as the level of scarring, the ease of extraction of the hairs, and the hair quality. Beard hair FUE is a scalpel free procedure and does not leave a linear scar, but it will [...]

Traditional head hair transplant methods involve the removal of strips of flesh from the back and sides of the head, which unfortunately results in linear scars that wrap around the back of the head from ear to ear. Even a strip-surgery performed to perfection will leave a linear scar and patients may suffer from numbness, [...]