What Are Some Treatments For Hair Restoration?

• Propecia is a common finasteride drug used to stop hair loss by fighting the male hormone, DHT.
• Hair restoration surgery, such as “strip harvesting” or follicular unit extraction.
• False hair, such as hairpieces, wigs, and toupees.

Like with most conditions, early treatment of hair loss is better and will result in more successful results. For this reason, hair restoration patients have started getting younger.

For more information on hair loss or about Dr. Umar and his hair transplant procedures, please contact the DermHair Clinic in Los Angeles. A hair restoration consultation can easily be arranged online for free.

BHT (Body Hair Transplantation) To The Rescue

This nightmare is not uncommon. Botched hair restoration surgeries occur due to procedures that are inherently flawed, inexperienced practitioners, or a combination of the two. A few surgeries that typically result in cosmetically unacceptable scarring include scalp reduction, flap surgery, and strip surgery. The former two are obsolete for the most part, outside of surgeries having to do with congenital birth defects. But strip surgery is yet considered the “traditional” method and remains a popular choice, despite the unavoidable fallout—a prominent and embarrassing strip scar.

However, even the gold standard of hair transplantation, follicular unit extraction (FUE), can go awry if the patient does not select his practitioner carefully.

Depending on the method, hair transplantation gone wrong can result in:

A depleted head donor pool due to excessive scarring.

• Cobblestoning, pitting, and ridging
• Pluggy hair
• The infamous strip scar, which can stretch over time
• A hairline that is unnaturally harsh
• Slot formation
• A scar on the anterior hairline

Strip scar from strip surgery.

Pluggy hair from punch grafting.

Slot formation from scalp reduction.

Unnatural hairline from flap surgery.

The marvelous advent of body hair transplantation, or BHT, gives us the option of hair transplant repair even beyond the exhaustion of all head donor hair.

How Does Hair Transplant Repair Using BHT Work?

People whose scarring, disfigurement, and/or baldness are so severe that they have no head donor hair are typically considered impractical candidates for hair transplant repair. Until the advent of hair cloning, they’d be lost and out of luck. Fortunately BHT has made the impossible possible in some of these patients, as consistently shown by the work of world leader in the field—Dr. Umar. Through his work with BHT, hope has been restored to many patients.

BHT incorporates the use of FUE, which is the extraction of follicular units one at a time from the donor area, for implantation into the balding recipient area. Since the follicles are being extracted in microscopic-size grafts (as opposed to, say, an entire strip of flesh), BHT enables grafts to be taken from the beard, chest, stomach, arms, and legs. In qualified patients, and with experienced doctors, BHT has vastly expanded the pool of donor follicles for hair transplant repair.

If you require a hair transplant repair using BHT, schedule a free online consultation with Dr. Umar of the DermHair Clinic. Dr. Umar is a board certified physician, hair transplant pioneer, and world leader of the BHT technique.

Before Body Hair Transplant: Avoiding Corrective Hair Restoration Surgery

Before body hair transplant is in the picture, the best way to achieve success from your hair restoration surgery is to take all the precautions you can and minimize risks:

• Do your research.
• Find an experienced practitioner with proper licensing from the governing medical boards.
• Make sure you get a one-on-one consultation with your doctor before your date of surgery.
• Be aware of the procedure your chosen doctor uses, the risks that come with it, and the tools it requires.
• Know that certain hair restoration surgery, such as scalp reduction, flap surgery, mini- and micro-grafting, and strip harvesting have inherent flaws and will cause measurable scarring.

Corrective hair restoration using FUE body hair transplant.

How Body Hair Transplant Works

If you are one of the many who’s suffered a botched hair restoration surgery, hope is not lost. Through body hair transplant, donor follicles can be extracted from the legs, arms, stomach, chest, and beard for transplantation to the scalp. Dr. Umar, a pioneering physician in the advent of the body hair transplant, has corrected some of the historically worst cases.

Body hair transplant utilizes FUE, which is the single follicle extraction of donor hairs. One follicular unit—a group of one to four hairs—comprises each graft. Those grafts, taken from almost anywhere on the body, are then used for body hair transplantation.

Find out more information about body hair transplant by scheduling a free online consultation with Dr. Umar.

Hair Loss Solutions

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 hair restoration. He focused on alternatives to the painful surgery and limitations of traditional treatments for hair replacement. At that time, many alternative treatments were still in the developmental stages and were flawed, so he began to design a new, minimally invasive, hair transplant procedure. Dr. Umar has spent years focusing on the invention and design of tools and techniques which allowed him to develop a successful, knife-free, natural replacement for hair loss.

The result is “The Umar Procedure,” or single follicle extraction and transfer (SFET). This is a more advanced form of the procedure popularly known as Follicular unit Extraction (FUE). This state-of-the-art hair restoration treatment results in rapid healing rates and better overall yield and growth of transplanted hair follicles on the scalp. The Umar Procedure is a minimally invasive treatment that requires no scalpels, strip surgery or stitches. Scarring and downtime are minimized with SFET. Best of all, because the procedure allows for the use of body hair, it allows for the number of transplantable hair or donor supply to increase in availability, giving many hair loss victims new hope for Los Angeles hair restoration. The newly transplanted hair follicles grow in a natural pattern after the first treatment. SFET (a form of FUE) and Body Hair Transplant (BHT) as performed by Dr. Umar is a minimally invasive process that occurs in complete patient comfort. After the procedure, most patients would not require even ordinary over the counter pain killers. Depending on the size of the surgery, as many procedures can be scheduled over the course of several back to back work days. Typically, patients’ returns to a normal life immediately and many have no need to cover their head with a hat ever again. Dr. Umar is a pioneer in FUE, inventor of SFET, and the top BHT hair surgeon in the world. For more information, please contact DermHair Clinic in Los Angeles at (310)318-1500, or visit http://www.dermhairclinic.com

“The Umar Procedure” or single follicle extraction and transfer (SFET) is a state-of-the-art hair restoration procedure performed by Dr. Sanusi Umar in Los Angeles, and results are superior, especially with its rapid healing rates and better overall yield and growth of transplanted hair follicles on the scalp. The Umar Procedure is a minimally invasive treatment that requires no scalpels, strip surgery or stitches. Scarring and downtime are minimized. Best of all, because the procedure allows for the use of body hair (body hair transplantation, or BHT), the number of transplant able hair is greatly increased. The newly transplanted hair follicles grow in a natural pattern from the first treatment. Typically, patients’ returns to a normal life immediately and many have no need to cover their head with a hat ever again.

Dr. Umar is the top BHT hair restoration surgeon in the world, and he has performed surgeries that produced results that other clinic or doctor have written off as impossible. For this reason, other highly notable hair transplantation surgeons have referred their cases of BHT to him in his clinic in Los Angeles. For more information, please contact the DermHair Clinic in Los Angeles at (310)318-1500, or visit http://www.dermhairclinic.com/

Dr. Umar Juri Flap Repair: After

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 were repaired by Dr. Umar using only 2050 grafts that were derived from the head and nape donor hairs using his advanced version of Follicular Unit Extraction, which he calls Single Follicle Extraction and Transfer (FUE-SFET). Flap surgeries for the purpose of hair restoration and hair replacement use to be commonly performed in the past, but with the advent of follicular unit hair transplantation, flap surgeries have been becoming obsolete. Technical terms that describe these flap surgeries include Temperoparietal-occipital (aka Juri flaps or Fleming Mayer) and temperoparietal flaps (Elliot flaps).

The Juri flap operation relocates large areas of dense, growing hair. Problems usually associated with the results of these surgeries are mostly found in the esthetics of the hairline. Commonly, the hairline is too straight, defined by a scar, a backward directed hair angle, and abnormally blunted temporal recesses. The sharp hairline makes an unnatural transition from the hairline to the temple points and the hairline symmetry is too abrupt and abnormal. The Juri flap causes the hair to point in the wrong direction (to the sides and backwards) and thus when balding progresses, it leaves a big hole in the balding area, which makes it hard to conceal.

The innovative procedure of SFET-FUE makes it possible for even the most severely bald individual to have his hair restored fully without sacrificing the crown or settling for an aged higher hairline. Before seeing Dr. Umar, these patients have Dr. Umar’s procedure is a very effective and possible option for severely bald individuals or those that are donor depleted and in need of repair. These patients often have been told that no repair options exist for them. Many have been waiting for years in vain for hair cloning, hair multiplication or other cell based or genetic technology to materialize. Dr. Umar is board certified dermatologist and hair specialist whose busy practice is located in the Redondo Beach area of Los Angeles. His patients come from all corners of the globe to take advantage of his unique skills. For more information, please contact the DermHair Clinic in Los Angeles at (310)318-1500, or visit http://www.dermhairclinic.com

DermHair Patient After Transplantation Repair

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 hair loss. The patient came to have this abnormal hair loss pattern repaired by Dr. Umar in early 2008. About 3000 grafts were transplanted by Dr. Umar using his advanced form of Follicular Unit Extraction method (FUE), which is a method that he calls Single Follicle Extraction and Transfer (SFET). This is a knife-free method that is minimally invasive and leaves no linear scar and is less painful than the traditional strip surgery method. Dr. Umar was able to use 3000 grafts taken from the patient’s nape and head to cover the crown and bridge the unnatural gap between the isolated tuft of hair in the front and the side and temples.In conclusion, patients who receive hair transplants at an early age need to remember that the new hair they are transplanting to their heads is permanent, which will lead to aberrant hair loss patterns in the future due to the progression of unstable and unpredictable hair loss that continues with age. Patients planning to have hair restoration surgery at an early age should avoid a surgical plan or choosing a hair surgeon who does not take future hair loss into account.  For example, a  hair transplant that looks fine at the age of 23 may end up looking abnormal in the future due to advancing hair loss in and the permanency of the previous hair transplant. Any patient who plans to undergo a hair transplant surgery at an early age must be prepared logistically and financially to get more transplants in the future to catch up with the advancing hair loss. If one is not prepared to accept that possibility, then they are better off not starting the procedure at all in the first place. For more advice and information, please contact Los Angeles hair restoration specialist and hair transplant surgeon Dr. Umar. Please call DermHair Clinic at (310)318-1500, or visit http://www.dermhairclinic.com/

Actual Patient: After Dr. Umar Repair

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) procedure in Mexico were performed by technicians instead of the doctor. This is can lead to poor surgical results because follicular unit extraction requires a very high skill level of the hair surgeon. There is very little margin for error each time a follicle is extracted. That is why in the state of California, any skin incision is considered surgery, hence a surgical act occurs with each of the hundreds or thousands of grafts that is incised each time a single hair follicle is scored in the process of FUE. This procedure differs from follicular unit strip surgery (FUSS), where a surgical act occurs only during the “cutting out” process of the strip of flesh and suturing. Thus, while it is negligent for a doctor to perform FUE without the necessary skill and training, it is illegal in many developed parts of the world for non-licensed persons to be performing surgery. Additionally, a bad outcome would deplete the donor hair supply from wastage of the follicles.

Surgery is performed with each incision made at the time for each follicular unit extraction. Hair transplant costs varies widely, however, patients should not base their choice of a hair restoration clinic or doctor on cost or geographic proximity alone. It is more effective and efficient to choose a high quality and licensed hair surgeon rather than considering a less experienced doctor in order to save money or to stay local. At the DermHair Clinic in Los Angeles, superior hair restoration results are being achieved by top FUE and Body Hair Transplantation surgeon Dr. Umar. For more information and examples of Dr. Umar’s work, please visit http://www.dermhairclinic.com, or call the DermHair Clinic in Los Angeles at (310)318-1500.

Dr. Umar of DermHair Clinic is making strides to invite these candidates in for treatment. As a pioneer of body hair transplantation, also known as BHT, he is building a bridge that stretches into a future where everyone is a candidate for transplantation. For now, his research and practice in BHT shows that almost everyone is a candidate.

Dr. Umar has repaired the severely bald and severely scarred with remarkable success. His use of BHT restored the hair and lives of patients who had been turned away by practitioners using head hair only.

Victims of previously botched surgeries that now have an exacerbated lack of donor hair are no longer hopeless.

BHT Repairs Strip Surgery Gone Wrong

The following patient suffered two strip scars from a previous surgery. Using BHT, Dr. Umar transplanted 1,200 follicles to repair the scar.

BHT Repairs Disfigurement Caused By Several Previous Restoration Attempts

This patient presented to Dr. Umar having had several previous hair restoration surgeries that all went amiss. He’d had multiple scalp reductions, flap surgery, and punch grafting which left his scalp disfigured and beyond repair by most standards. Dr. Umar used 15,000 hairs donated from the stomach, chest, and shoulders, along with 6,000 beard hairs, and about 1,000 head hairs to restore the patient’s scalp to normalcy.

If you suffer severe baldness due to scarring, or even because of advanced androgenic alopecia, many clinics would turn you away as a “poor candidate.” However, DermHair Clinic is here to serve you during this trying time. Set up a free online consultation with Dr. Umar to learn more about BHT.

To understand this specific condition of lupus better, cicatricial alopecia, also known as scarring alopecia, is hair loss that occurs in areas where there is scarring or other tissue damage that destroys the hair follicles. In other words, the term “cicatricial alopecia” refers to a diverse group of rare disorders that destroy the hair follicle, replace it with scar tissue, and cause permanent hair loss. Scarring alopecia divides into two categories: primary and secondary. In primary scarring alopecia, the hair follicle is the main target of inflammation. In secondary cicatricial alopecias, destruction of the hair follicle is incidental to a non-follicle-directed process or external injury, such as severe infections, burns, radiation, or tumors. The hair follicle is regarded as an “innocent bystander” as it is destroyed in a non-specific manner by skin inflammation. For both the clinician and the pathologist, identifying the particular forms of primary scarring alopecia and making a diagnosis can be rather challenging.

In some cases, hair loss is gradual, without symptoms, and is unnoticed for long periods of time. In other cases, hair loss is associated with severe itching, burning and pain and is rapidly progressive. The inflammation that destroys the follicle is below the skin surface and there is usually no scar seen on the scalp. Affected areas of the scalp may show little signs of inflammation, or have redness, scaling, increased or decreased pigmentation, pustules, or draining sinuses.

Cicatricial alopecia occurs in otherwise healthy men and women of all ages worldwide. A scalp biopsy and clinical evaluation will help arrive at the diagnosis of cicatricial alopecia. The scalp biopsy is necessary for a proper diagnosis of the type of cicatricial alopecia. It is also used to determine the degree of activity, and to select appropriate therapy.

Dr. Sanusi Umar is a board certified dermatologist and hair surgeon with extensive experience in conducting scalp biopsies and determining the correct therapy for different cases of hair loss. Visit this link on our website for a detailed account of how a case of cicatricial alopecia resulting from lupus erythematosus was managed successfully. Please call our clinic at (310)318-1500 or visit http://www.dermhairclinic.com/ for more information.