Hair Transplant Encyclopedia

A graft outside the body faces three separate stresses. They are not variations of one problem, and a clinic can control one while losing another....

Angle and direction are two separate decisions. Angle is how steeply the hair leaves the skin; direction is where it points once it is out....

A graft is a follicular unit, not a hair. Follicles grow in natural clusters of one to four hairs, and a graft is one of...

A follicle is an organ, not a hole. It is a tube of specialised skin extending down into the dermis, with its own blood supply,...

Every follicle runs its own clock. Hairs do not cycle together, which is why humans shed continuously instead of moulting. At any moment a scalp...

Miniaturization is a follicle shrinking, not a hair thinning. The same follicle keeps cycling, but each new growth run is shorter than the last, so...

Shedding is hair leaving; loss is hair not coming back. They look identical in a shower drain and mean completely different things. A shed hair...

The operation is done under local anaesthesia, and that is not a compromise. General anaesthesia is not standard for hair restoration: the patient needs to...

Three different situations get called failure, and only two of them are. Separating them is the whole diagnosis, because each has a different answer and...

At Norwood 6 and 7 the arithmetic inverts. In early loss the question is how to fill an area; here the bald surface is larger...

Scar tissue is a different recipient bed, not just a marked one. It carries fewer vessels than normal scalp, and grafts placed into it depend...

Each instrument governs one variable, and only one. A procedure is a sequence of separate decisions — how the follicle is freed, how it is...