Acne keloidalis nuchae, is an unusual condition thought to be one of the main causes of cicatricial alopecia, or scarring alopecia. AKN has a yet undetermined pathology, but is seen most common amid African American men. It is believed to have a cause and effect relationship with the friction that results from short haircuts (from [...]

A strip harvesting hair transplant didn’t get this patient the results he desired. And one year post-follicular unit extraction surgery of several thousand grafts, the patient still didn’t have the yield he wanted. His hairline, temple points, and frontal scalp were sparse, clearly having receded. What’s more, he also had to deal with the strip [...]

This DermHair Clinic patient wanted an FUE hair restoration to correct the thinning hair over his vertex, frontal scalp, and hairline. Knowing he would keep his hair in a short buzz cut, he only wanted to add moderate density. Dr. Umar grafted 3,000 follicular units from the patient’s head and nape in order to complete [...]

Noticias de la Salud de KNBC entrevistas a un paciente de cirugía estética y su médico, el Dr. Sanusi Umar de DermHair Clinic en Los Angeles, en el seguimiento de la historia de su trasplante de ceja notable. Después de años de cosmético sobre-desplume y los cambios hormonales que vienen con el envejecimiento, este paciente [...]

Body hair transplant at DermHair Clinic was able to salvage this patient’s hairline and confidence. The patient had undergone a scalp reduction procedure and, decades earlier, a punch graft transplant. While these surgeries did not solve the initial problem of baldness, they also caused a pluggy hairline and large, white punch graft scars across his [...]

This patient presented to DermHair Clinic after hearing about Dr. Umar’s work with facial hair to head transplant. The patient had previously undergone scalp reduction and other hair transplant surgeries, all of which left him in a worse state. As his pattern baldness continued to advance, the scars from the previous surgeries showed through, exacerbating [...]

KNBC Health News interviews a cosmetic surgery patient and her doctor, Dr. Sanusi Umar of DermHair Clinic in Los Angeles, as they follow the story of her remarkable eyebrow transplantation. Before and after images are shown in the video. After years of cosmetic over-plucking, and the hormonal changes that come with aging, this patient had [...]

Acne keloidalis nuchae (AKN), having no relation to acne vulgaris, is a kind of chronic folliculitis that originates as pustules and papules within the hair follicle. It then appears as keloidlike lesions that develop on the back of the neck and/or the occipital scalp. These large, inflamed lesions are uncomfortable and often painful, and create [...]

American Health Journal talks to Dr. Umar about hair loss—a condition affecting approximately 35 million men and 21 million women. Pattern baldness is the most common cause of hair loss, however Dr. Umar acknowledges that there are other possible causes, such as stress, and alopecia areata in children. He describes the hormone DHT as the [...]

This patient presented to Dr. Umar after having already had FUE hair transplantation at another clinic. He’d had 3600 FUE grafts but wanted more fullness with no scarring. Dr. Umar renewed his FUE hair transplantation by using 6100 FUE grafts transplanted from head, beard, and body to get the results in the video. You can [...]