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Advanced Follicular Unit Extraction Offers Hope for extreme hair loss
There are many different stages of hair loss.  And according to conventional wisdom, it is best to start taking action right away (with the help of a physician) once you start noticing the signs of baldness. Medications like Propecia and Rogaine can prevent hair loss from getting worse. However, some individuals are genetically programmed for extreme hair loss regardless of medications.

Hair transplant procedures can do wonders for those with receding hairlines, thinning tops and baldness in the crown area. Many people still think that the results look like chunky dolls hair plugs, from the 1970s. However techniques have become far more sophisticated and refined.  With Follicular Unit Extraction, tiny groupings of natural hair growth (e.g. 1-4 strands) can be extracted and inserted into bald or thinning areas of the head.  Outcomes can be very detailed and natural looking with this approach.  Celebrities like Wayne Rooney and Gordon Ramsey have reportedly undergone Follicular Unit Extraction to get the hair that they have now.

Shaving the Entire Head In Extreme Hair loss

Up until now, hair transplant procedures have only been available to those with early to mid-stage baldness.  Those with severe hair loss, where most of the hair has fallen out, have been turned away by most hair transplant clinics as non-candidates.

High profile men like Andrei Agassi and Bruce Willis decided to shave their entire heads during the 1990s. They probably thought they had reached a point of no return with their hair loss.

Many males with severe baldness feel that it is too late to do anything about it. But this is no longer true.

Transplantation For Extreme Stages of  Hair Loss

The old paradigm of hair restoration surgery is that a person needs to have plenty of hair left on their head in order to treat their baldness.

But this is no longer the case, thanks to Dr. Umar’s uGraft surgical system.

The need for larger numbers of grafts can be met with follicles from body areas such as:

  • beard regions of the face
  • chest
  • abdomen
  • back

So why haven’t doctors been doing this all along? Taking hair from the body is much different from extracting hair from the head to treat baldness.  Here are a few reasons:

  • Body hair tends to grow at sharp angles
  • Follicles from body regions tend to be more fragile. Traditional surgical tools put them at risk for damage
  • Visually flawless results in donor healing (from the punch wounds that are created) is a much higher priority on body regions like the face, back, chest etc.  Regular FUE tools are  often prone to leaving marks.

Dr. Umar’s uGraft methodology was designed specifically to address these issues, so that the use of body follicles for severe repair cases and  advanced baldness can be a feasible and reliable process.

Here  are two  Derm Hair Clinic patients who did not want to accept the common recommendations that are given to men who have lost most of their hair.  They did not like the idea of wearing a hair piece or completely shaving their head. Although they would have been rejected by other clinics for a hair transplant, Dr. Umar was able to give them the coverage that they wanted.

Extreme hair loss restoration
Patient with severe baldness after two uGraft procedures to improve fullness.*
Advanced Hair loss restoration
Before and after pictures of a patient who was severely bald and wanted modest coverage.*

Learn more about treatment of severe baldness using the UGraft.

 
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