by Dr. William Rassman of NHI Medical
The photos show a lot of miniaturized hairs behind the hair transplant. I would expect to see hair loss behind the hair transplant unless you had been prescribed finasteride. Even with that, your hair transplant probably didn’t extend far enough back to cover the area of what appears to be advanced thinning. Hair loss here will not come back.
This is the first time I ever heard of this complication from SMP. It was clearly done by someone that just didn’t understand the process. It is also clear from the size of the dots, that the operator went too deep which probably accounted for the necrosis complication
The crown isn’t a styling area, mostly just need the look of fullness over there. It’s common just to get that area micropigmentation. So why not just use some body hair to fill it in? I know there’s a reason why, otherwise it would be done more. But what is it?
Body hair donor sites have problems with them as follows: (1) they grow to a limited length, (2) they only grow about 6-8 months and then fall out, (3) their texture (bulk) is less than most scalp hair so that it takes many more to be equal to a scalp donor hair and (4) half of all of the transplanted hairs are in telogen (sleeping) half of the time which means that for every 10 hairs that are transplanted, only 5 are growing at any one time. In conclusion, it is not practical and very expensive. As for hair elsewhere in the body, beard as a donor source is good but not for the frontal area and only when you run out of good scalp donor hair. Neck hair is not permanent hair so it should never be used as a donor source.
There seems to be some corner fill and stabilization of your frontal hairline with probably little or no recession
I am a female. My dermatologist recently told me that any kind of hair color should not be used when experiencing hair loss/thinning hair. I’m dealing with thinning hair on my crown and right side of my scalp. I’ve recently started using Rogaine and my derm advised I could use whatever shampoo I wanted, ( I was very surprised at this). I’ve been using semi-perm color on my hair for years and on occasion using perm color. All in the salon ?
Yes, hair coloring impacts the hair on top of your head. Genetic hair loss is below the scalp level so the two are unrelated. Don’t damage your hair with dyes, which can happen below the skin when it is used wrong.
The issue may be do you want to travel to Turkey (airports, airplanes, hotels in a city that may have a lot of Carona Virus out there? Then, will you be let to fly though western cities on return?
HAIR GROWTH DRUG SEEN AS A WONDER FOR UPJOHN
By John Crudele
May 28, 1985, Section D, Page 1Buy Reprints
The Upjohn Company may be several years away from receiving Government approval to sell what could be a revolutionary hair-growth ointment, but thousands of balding men are said to be using a homemade version of the product.
And while the company is still a long way from seeing the full financial impact of its drug, called minoxidil, Upjohn may already be realizing considerable benefits from the cottage industry that has grown up around the compound.
Minoxidil has the approval of the United States Food and Drug Administration, but as a tablet taken to treat hypertension. Years ago, however, Upjohn scientists found that the drug promoted hair growth as a side effect. More recently, doctors have been putting patients on minoxidil not to fight hypertension, but to grow hair.
Dr. Michael Lorin Reed, assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the New York University Medical Center, said he had ”at least several hundred people on the drug right now.” Dr. Reed said there were a ”zillion people prescribing” minoxidil for hair growth.
No Final Verdict on Product
While such use by doctors is legal, the F.D.A. said, people might not get the desired results. Upjohn, meanwhile, has been contending that some sellers of the homemade product may be infringing on company patents.
A question remaining about the drug’s use in combating baldness is whether it will be absorbed through the skin and produce unusually low blood pressure.
While a debate is raging over how effective the drug will be against receding hairlines, Wall Street is unanimous in believing the product will be important for Upjohn.
”Topical minoxidil for male pattern baldness could become one of the largest selling drugs in the world and transform Upjohn into one of the fastest growing major domestic drug companies,” said Ronald M. Nordmann, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Company.
Stock Soared Last Week
The investment community’s excitement over the hair ointment was obvious last week when the mention of minoxidil in a routine report by another Wall Street analyst, Paul Brooke of Morgan Stanley & Company, sent Upjohn’s stock soaring $13.375 a share for the week to a final price of $110.25 on Friday.
Mr. Nordmann believes minoxidil, if approved by the F.D.A. for external use, could generate about $500 million in annual sales for Upjohn and net income of $204 million. Upjohn’s total sales in 1984 were $2.18 billion and net earnings were $173.3 million.
But Upjohn may already be seeing some benefits of minoxidil’s popularity for hair growth. While Upjohn will not disclose sales figures for any of its drugs, Mr. Nordmann estimated that sales of minoxidil tablets, under the brand name Loniten, would grow to about $30 million this year, from only $7 million in 1983. ”The growth is clearly not coming from the hypertension market,” he said.
It was in the early 1970’s that Upjohn, a pharmaceutical company based in Kalamazoo, Mich., noticed that minoxidil tablets were causing hair growth in patients. In 1977 it began investigating whether the drug, when applied externally as a liquid, could arrest the balding process. An Upjohn spokeswoman said the results of the studies were not complete, but she added that the company expected to file for F.D.A. approval of the hair ointment later this year, beginning a licensing process that usually takes about two years.
Cost Is $100 a Month
But thousands of men apparently have sidestepped the barriers to using this drug, with the help of medical doctors.
According to Dr. Reed, to convert minoxidil, the hypertension drug, into minoxidil, the hair treatment, 180 tablets are crushed and mixed with water, alcohol and propylene glycol.
That produces two ounces of the hair growth formula, enough for a one-month supply. Rob Davis, a colleague of Mr. Nordmann at Oppenheimer and one of Dr. Reed’s patients, said the formula was applied nightly from an eyedropper, rubbed in and covered with a cap. The cost is $100 a month, he said.
”I think it’s worked fairly dramatically,” said Mr. Davis, who said his existing hair seems to have thickened, although new hair growth has been less dramatic. Dr. Reed agreed that minoxidil held more promise for making existing hair look fuller, rather than for causing new hair to sprout.
According to a spokesman, Upjohn has been warning users that the ground-up tablets might produce different results from the ointment given to the volunteers in the Upjohn study. The F.D.A. agrees, said Bruce Brown, an agency spokesman, noting that the altered product ”may not bear any resemblance to the form that is under investigation.”
In its tests, Upjohn said, it has found that one-third of the volunteers showed hair growth, while on another one-third there was light, fuzzlike growth. The remaining volunteers were not helped by the ointment.
Finasteride is a great drug for a 20 year old and with minoxidil and possibly dermrolling, you might reverse the loss. There have been many good examples of this on this blog. Use the search engine and put in ‘finasteride’ ‘photo’ and see what comes up, I think that you will be impressed.
Notice its location is one finger breadth above the highest crease of the furrowed brow and the hairline takes a gentle V shape
BEFORE PHOTO 3 YEARS LATER
This man had over 4000 FUE grafts and now his donor area is almost completely depleted.
His only option is to remain bald or get Scalp Micropigmentation
Attached below is his Warranty Certificate which guarantees growth (not honored)
This is a case of Triangular Alopecia, an inherited bald area always located where you have it. Some people have it on both sides of their head. It is easily fixed with a hair transplant
Its a part of your routine and you’re less likely to forget it, you’ll always be near it when you get out of bed, etc. But for night it can also be a part of your nightly routine and during your sleep you won’t have time to hyper focus on whether youre feeling sides or not, but I can also imagine that with nothing to stimulate your mind you may wander to whether you’re feeling sides while if you take it in the day you’ll have stuff to occupy yourself so you maybe won’t think about it.
Makes no difference when you take it because it is not the blood level that works, but the tissue buildup in the hair follicles.
The sudden appearance of such a bald spot is suggestive of Alopecia Areata. See a dermatologist.
The person who put these grafts into your recipient area seems to have only put the bottom of the graft into the recipient wound. I see most of each graft actually not inside the skin where they belong. I see quite a few grafts that seem to be already out as I zoomed into the photo. If this is what the ‘operator’ thinks is a quality hair transplant, they better go back to school and I am not sure how to help you at this late stage. I would doubt that most of these grafts will survive. There appears to be a great deal of work done and a good amount of your donor area has been harvested which will impact your next experience significantly.
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The photos show a lot of miniaturized hairs behind the hair transplant. I would expect to see hair loss behind the hair transplant unless you had been prescribed finasteride. Even with that, your hair transplant probably didn’t extend far enough back to cover the area of what appears to be advanced thinning. Hair loss here […]
This is the first time I ever heard of this complication from SMP. It was clearly done by someone that just didn’t understand the process. It is also clear from the size of the dots, that the operator went too deep which probably accounted for the necrosis complication
The crown isn’t a styling area, mostly just need the look of fullness over there. It’s common just to get that area micropigmentation. So why not just use some body hair to fill it in? I know there’s a reason why, otherwise it would be done more. But what is it? Body hair donor sites […]
There seems to be some corner fill and stabilization of your frontal hairline with probably little or no recession
I am a female. My dermatologist recently told me that any kind of hair color should not be used when experiencing hair loss/thinning hair. I’m dealing with thinning hair on my crown and right side of my scalp. I’ve recently started using Rogaine and my derm advised I could use whatever shampoo I wanted, ( […]
The issue may be do you want to travel to Turkey (airports, airplanes, hotels in a city that may have a lot of Carona Virus out there? Then, will you be let to fly though western cities on return?
HAIR GROWTH DRUG SEEN AS A WONDER FOR UPJOHN By John Crudele May 28, 1985 Credit…The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from May 28, 1985, Section D, Page 1Buy Reprints The Upjohn Company may be several years away from receiving Government approval to sell what could be a revolutionary hair-growth ointment, but thousands […]
Finasteride is a great drug for a 20 year old and with minoxidil and possibly dermrolling, you might reverse the loss. There have been many good examples of this on this blog. Use the search engine and put in ‘finasteride’ ‘photo’ and see what comes up, I think that you will be impressed.
Notice its location is one finger breadth above the highest crease of the furrowed brow and the hairline takes a gentle V shape
BEFORE PHOTO 3 YEARS LATER This man had over 4000 FUE grafts and now his donor area is almost completely depleted. His only option is to remain bald or get Scalp Micropigmentation Attached below is his Warranty Certificate which […]
This is a case of Triangular Alopecia, an inherited bald area always located where you have it. Some people have it on both sides of their head. It is easily fixed with a hair transplant
Its a part of your routine and you’re less likely to forget it, you’ll always be near it when you get out of bed, etc. But for night it can also be a part of your nightly routine and during your sleep you won’t have time to hyper focus on whether youre feeling sides or […]
The sudden appearance of such a bald spot is suggestive of Alopecia Areata. See a dermatologist.
The person who put these grafts into your recipient area seems to have only put the bottom of the graft into the recipient wound. I see most of each graft actually not inside the skin where they belong. I see quite a few grafts that seem to be already out as I zoomed into the […]