Hair Transplant Encyclopedia

Smoking attacks the exact process a graft depends on. A transplanted follicle survives its first days on oxygen diffusing from surrounding tissue, until new vessels...

Telogen effluvium is shedding, not balding. A physiological shock pushes a large share of growing follicles into the resting phase at once. They all release...

Temporal points are classified before they are rebuilt. The published scheme grades them from normal, through thinning, to recession that runs parallel to the sideburn...

Trichoscopy is dermoscopy applied to the scalp. A magnifying lens with controlled lighting is held against the skin so hair shafts, follicular openings and the...

Unshaven is a spectrum, not a single technique. The term covers everything from leaving the recipient area untouched while the donor is clipped, to taking...

These two words describe every hair on the body, and they are defined against each other. Terminal hair is thick, pigmented and long — scalp,...

A hair transplant moves hair; it does not create any. The total number of follicles on a head is the same before and after. Surgery...

Hairline errors are not one problem but four, and they are not equally fixable. Knowing which one is present decides whether the answer is more...