Many studies done on hair loss show that the general time between initially noticing losing hair and seeking treatment for hair restoration is about six years. This makes perfect sense considering that most hair loss happens gradually over time. An initial stage of sadness and denial is normal, followed by the hope that the hair [...]

Hair loss can be a devastating event in life. A more devastating event: entrusting the restoration of your hair to a surgeon who botches the procedure, disfiguring your scalp and leaving you worse off than you started. BHT (Body Hair Transplantation) To The Rescue This nightmare is not uncommon. Botched hair restoration surgeries occur due [...]

Most times, donor hair supply becomes exhausted naturally, from the progression of androgenic alopecia (pattern baldness). However, too often the cause of depleted donor hair is a botched hair restoration surgery. Many people suffering from pattern baldness enter into hair restoration surgery with high hopes—then something goes wrong. The scalp is left with less donor [...]

Having personally experienced the devastating consequences of a poor hair transplant and scarring after undergoing a surgery done on him as a resident physician, Dr. Umar set out to find a new linear scar free, knife free, and minimally invasive hair restoration solution. In order to accomplish this, he first compared the different procedures for [...]

Conventional head and nape 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. However, the process by which Dr. Umar performs head hair transplantation is linear scar free [...]

The patient presented in this photo had an abnormal hairline scar and recession as well as an abnormal hair angle. This problem resulted from a Juri flap procedure that he had undergone several years prior to finding Dr. Umar to repair his poor hair transplant. His hairline and remaining problems with his previous hair transplant [...]

The patient had strip surgeries with large plug transplantation to his frontal scalp. However, as his hair loss progressed, the transplanted hair was still intact due to its permanent nature. The result of this situation is an abnormal pattern in which the patient has an island of hair in the front surrounded by areas of [...]

This patient came to Dr. Umar to repair a hair transplant done at a clinic in Mexico had failed. He had lair loss level NW3 and Dr. Umar used 2,500 grafts derived from the nape and head to achieve a successful hair restoration. The patient reported that all aspects of his follicular unit extraction (FUE) [...]

The future of hair transplantation is headed toward hair cloning, with research currently happening to make that happen. Until hair cloning becomes a reality, however, many suffering severe baldness from scarring have been locked out in the “poor candidate” wasteland. Dr. Umar of DermHair Clinic is making strides to invite these candidates in for treatment. [...]

Besides male patterned baldness, there are dermatological conditions that can cause hair loss. Many of these conditions are inflammatory in nature. Some conditions, if not recognized and treated early, could result in scarring with permanent hair loss. One such condition is known as lupus erythematosus . Hair loss with scarring (cicatricial alopecia) is often the [...]