Drugs That Can Cause Hair Loss
There are many categories of prescription drugs that have been reported to cause hair loss, and the medications listed below present a risk of temporary...

Drugs That Grow Hair
Countless medications, nutrients, herbs, and chemicals have been claimed to stop or reverse hair loss, however when...

Future Hair Loss Treatments

History of Surgical Hair Restoration
This chapter reviews the history of some older-style hair restoration surgical...

Normal Hair Growth
Before addressing the causes and solutions to hair loss, it will be helpful to understand how hair normally grows. This is because many hair loss remedies...

Other Hair Loss Causes
A wide range of factors other than genetics can result in hair loss, and many of these conditions are temporary...

Surgical Hair Restoration Principles
Surgical forms of hair restoration have had a long history of popularity, mainly because the results are permanent...

The Cause of Most Hair Loss
The most common type of hair loss occurs in a predicable pattern, and pattern hair loss occurs when the normal cycle of hair growth changes. Usually...

Which Hair Loss Treatment Is Right for Me?
When full-size hair...

Why Treat Hair Loss?
 At a point in our lives while growing up, we each form a mental image of ourselves.We...

Bogus Treatments
Intelligent men and women will buy bogus hair growth treatments. These are treatments that do not work. Despite the claims made in print and television...

Cosmetic Treatments
Cosmetic treatments for hair loss only affect the user’s appearance, and not the structure or function of the living cells that make up the body...

Follicular Unit Micrografting
By the early 1990s, some hair restoration surgeons had began to regularly cut...

Before, During, and After Surgery
So you’re giving serious consideration to micrograft transplant surgery. This chapter explains how...

Marco’s Story
Marco of San Francisco is a renowned professional hairstylist, who currently makes “...

“Ask the Expert”
I am often asked hair-related questions by medical students when I lecture at hospitals...

Choosing a Physician
Choosing a hair restoration physician today is both easier than in...

Seeking Surgical Treatment - Hair Replacement Surgery
  Alopecia or hair loss affects an estimate 35 million men and 21 million women in the United States alone. It is so common that most believe...

What is a Laser Hair Transplant?
In recent years more and more individuals are seeking out laser hair transplantation.  In fact it is beginning to parallel the use of lasers...

Types of Hair Loss Surgery - Which one is right for me?
Even more than skin wrinkling, “liver” spots and a “spare tire,” hair loss can be one of the most distressing signs of aging....

Megasessions – A Marathon Approach to Baldness Treatment
We have all seen “doll’s hair”, hair plugs that were popular in the last part of the last century. These plugs, more embarrassing and...