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• Hair Loss Video Q&A | Have Your Questions Answered by American Hair Loss Association Experts!

  In Hair Loss, Hair Transplant / By The Bald Truth / 6 August 2009

  Baldtruthtalk.com the official online message forum of American Hair Loss Association, The International Alliance of Hair Restoration Surgeons and The Bald Truth Radio Show, is proud to announce the launch of the first and only Video Q&A consumer/patient forum dedicated to the education and empowerment of hair loss sufferers around the world.

  Never before have hair loss sufferers been afforded the opportunity to utilize an online message forum and know with certainly that the responses to their questions are being furnished by truly qualified physicians and industry experts. Read more ›

   

• Researching Hair Transplantation (and the Role of Price in Hair Transplant Surgery)

  In Articles, Hair Transplant / By TeeJay / 25 July 2009

  

  Let’s face it: most of us are not physically or emotionally equipped to peacefully accept our hair loss and seamlessly transition into baldness.  Not every one of us is born with the physical and mental statures of bald iconic legends like Bruce Willis, Vin Diesel, or Chris Daughtry, who can wear the look of baldness with natural ease and still draw hundreds of millions of dollars in box office revenues, allure screaming fans, or stage mind-blowing rock shows half-filled with half-naked supermodel-caliber chicks ready and willing to get funky backstage.

  Yes, for the vast majority of us hair loss sufferers, witnessing the daily erosion of our hair, arguably the key proponent of our physical appearance to the world, is on par with experiencing a long, swift kick in the nuts.  It hurts, period.  Sometimes, in fact very often, the emotional debilitation caused by our hair loss paired with our desire to bring a level of correction to this reprehensible biological defect is so severe that we commit ourselves to today’s most aggressive hair loss solution on the hair loss solution spectrum: surgical hair restoration. Read more ›

   

• Setting Hair Restoration Goals

  In Hair Transplant / By Steve Gillen / 7 May 2009

  

  Setting goals may be the most challenging aspect of planning hair restoration.  Many of us can be emotionally devastated by our hair loss.  We tend to want to fix what’s missing right now.

  Until hair cloning, hair multiplication, gene therapy, or anything else becomes viable and affordable, we are left to work within the confines of our available donor supplies.  And for the sake of our discussion, our references will be to scalp donor.   Hair harvested from other regions of the body are methodology still in their infancy stages and because of the lack of consistent results (yields), we cannot and will not rely on it as a realistic or feasible donor source.  Hopefully that will change in the near future.

  Hair restoration is an all encompassing term and extends beyond the realm of surgery.  First and foremost, patients have to decide if they will use the available medications approved by the FDA for treating MPB. Interestingly enough, the earlier an individual decides to begin treatment after formal diagnosis, the better overall results achieved including regrowth.  These medications are Propecia (men only, finasteride 1mg daily), and Rogaine (minoxidil 3% & 5% strength).   Why is this an important element in setting one’s goals? We know that MPB is a progressive disorder in its nature so without the effective use of hair loss medications, the loss will continue in its predestined course.  Read more ›