What is Hair Transplantation?

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Hair transplantation is a surgical technique that involves moving skin with hair follicles from one part of the body (the donor site) to the bald or balding parts (the recipient site). It is primarily used to treat male baldness pattern where the skin grafts containing hair follicles that are genetically resistant to balding [...]

Current Pharmaceutical Company Trends

There is growing evidence that drug manufacturers are jumping into the lifestyle drugs due to increasing interest and spending in the said products. May they be in terms of sexual enhancement, receding hairlines, ever widening bellies and more, drug companies are into high gear to find the next breakthroughs at breakneck speeds. This might be [...]

Woods Technique of Follicular relocation

The procedure is revolutionary for it is less painful than traditional transplant technology. The technique involves transplantation of only the hair follicle itself without the surrounding tissue which has proven to be more successful in terms of fallout and rejection. The micro surgery is not only less painful, it also prevents the look of a [...]

Cloning Hair Follicles

The development of a technique to successfully clone the human follicle is the ultimate solution to hair loss, according to most hair experts. The extraction of one follicle would be enough to produce a whole head-full of hair eliminating the need to transplant individual hair follicles from thicker parts of the scalp. The technology is [...]

Herbal treatment regimen

A recent addition to the arsenal in the fight against premature hair loss and hair replacement is the product ProFollica which is a three part hair care system that is hailed by some to be very effective. The first part of the system is a cleansing shampoo which cleanses excess sebum from the scalp, cleaning [...]

Eyelash transplants

Yes, even the lowly eyelashes are getting transplanted for those who need their looks for their professions. The older methods of using fake eyelashes just takes time and a lot of effort to apply, a wrong move can indeed give you a disfigured appearance. Women are more in need of this type of hair transplant [...]

Hair Facts 101

Hair is made up of the same material your fingernails are made up of, collagen. It can be considered as a form of organic plastic for it comes from living tissue that is produced by the hair follicle. As the fetus develops inside the womb, an average of about 5 million hairs develop all over [...]

Wigs

The wig industry is a actually a multi-billion dollar industry. This is because wigs are intricate, fragile things. It is made out of real human hair, put together by real hardworking slender fingers and therefore priced quite accordingly. Wigs are also not meant to last. One would be lucky to own a wig that would [...]

New choices in Hair Treatments

The first hair loss treatments involved mere spray able materials that you sprayed on your top to cover up the ever widening gap in between your hair follicles. They were hailed as miracles for balding men got to go out on the town as if they were years younger. Then came scalp transplant where surgeons [...]

Hair Transplant History - A look back

Did you know that the first documented treatments that gave birth to modern hair transplant techniques were born in the 1930�s? Yes, they have been around for quite sometime but they were rather used to repair hair loss due to injury and the events of the Second World War which had people disfigured loosing hair [...]