hi Dr. Rassman, i just had a quick question for you and i would really appreciated if you could answer it. well dr. rassman i just wanted to know, i’m thinking of having a hair transplant and the only way would be with the FUE procedure. i’ve been saving money for that the past 4 years just for this, so was just wondering let say i get a mega session done with about 2,500 to 3,000 hairs how much would that cost?? and doesn’t matter... 

I have been on propecia – Generic for about 7 months. I am bald on my crown. I am 43. I have not seen any hair growth. Should I stop. I am interested in FUe and not FUT. I keep my hair really short. I am happy with not having a full head of hair, and have successfully used a hair fiber to conceal my bald spot. Can  Read More →

Hello Doctors My question is about FUE & FUE2. Would it be realistic expectation for a male patient who is a Norwood IV and benefiting from Propeciea in the crown to achieve a good density in a conservative and mature frontal hair line? I get the impression from your previous entries that it may be expecting too much . I do also understand from the all the great articles you have provided that FUE seems to best used for smaller amounts of... 

I have quite a lot of hair in my neckline. The hair is thick and straight, which makes me wonder whether it could be transplanted to my head. I have already had 1000 grafts via FUE, and I see the diffuse pattern from the FUE transplant whenever I trim my hair very close to the scalp. Using neck hair seems like  Read More →

Snippet from the article: Hair transplant experts are excited about a new technology called NeoGraft that restores lost hair. But they warn that a never-ending series of bad hair days could be the outcome for patients who turn to NeoGraft clinics run by poorly trained doctors and technicians. Read the full text —  Read More →

Hey Doctor Thanks for the website. In a person with average hair denisity, what is the maximum number of grafts on average that you would believe could be extracted over time using FUE (i.e more than one procedure)? I really do not know the maximum and I would be just giving you a theoretical number. In practice, I believe we may have done about 4000 grafts over several procedures using only FUE. [tags]fue, follicular unit extraction, hair transplant,... 

if this is answered in your blogs forgive me and just send a link. i am clear i want a ht. i have done much research and am still meeting with docs. i can do in thailand, uk, usa. my one reservation has been the scarring and after effect, plus temporary nerve damage on the head. after realising FUE could be done in a megasession i feel this is it for me, (told i need 3-4000 hairs/grafts). as i research so many are careful, sceptical of it. i have... 

Dr. Rassman, I wanted to ask you a question about hairlines but first, I wanted to personally thank the staff at NHI, Dr. Pak and you for the wonderful visit I had at NHI this past Friday. This is a bit long winded but please bear with me. I am a 25 year old caucasian male with light brown hair and am in good health. I started  Read More →

One aspect puzzles me. In FUT a strip is removed and closed so a part of the scalp vanishes and is replaced by a thin scar. The areas adjoining the scar retain their hair density and very often with trichophytic closure hair grows out of the scar, again with no reduction in density. In FUE follicular units are harvested individually. No large scar is generated but hundreds (thousands?) of tiny ones. However (and this is my main point), donor area... 

I’ve been thinking about the case I wrote about last week — “ How Many FUE Grafts Actually Grew? ” — about how a patient (we’ll call him Mr. Smith) came to NHI after feeling royally screwed over by another clinic he went to for his follicular unit extraction (FUE) procedure. It’s quite an interesting case … [ visit site to read more ]  Read More →

A man came to see me last week with a problem following his hair transplant at another clinic over a year ago. The surgeon told him that 6600 grafts were transplanted using the follicular unit extraction (FUE) technique, which he guaranteed has a yield of over 90%. The patient wanted to know if his surgery actually reflected 6600 grafts, so at the patient’s request, we counted the actual grafts that grew. We divided up his head into 1cm squares... 

Just after I published a post about the NeoGraft tool, a phenomenon began occurring in the community. I’ve been seeing an increasing number of press releases that get brought to my attention from readers and from Google Alerts, announcing that some doctor with no experience in the art of hair restoration is now the first in his area to … [ visit site to read more ]  Read More →

Hi! Been reading your blog for quite a while now. I know that you are against body hair transplants onto the scalp, BUT — I don’t want to have body hair transplanted anywhere but into my strip scar. The reasons I saw you give in the past for avoiding body hair transplants were because body hair doesn’t grow out very long, so it would be bad for styling. Well, I would like it transplanted into my scar so I can cut my hair much... 

Can you tell me about the Neograft technology. Is it better that what is out there? Automation of the hair transplant process has been a goal of doctors from the earliest part of their career because of the tedious manual processes used today. In particular, with the large sessions, fatigue becomes a problem and the skill sets required of the staff take years to acquire proficiency. I have … [ visit site to read more ]  Read More →

I am a 40 year old asian male with slowly thinning hair. I’ve been using minoxidil for 4 years and propecia for 2 years now. They seem to help maintain what I have. Eventually I would like to consider surgery, but I am not bald enough according to the doctor I have seen. My question is: 1. is it better to wait until I am more bald, and, if so, why? 2. Is it true that FUT generally causes more scar in asian men? While I prefer FUE, I was told...