Removing transplants
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michael barry
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Yes,
Electrolysis and laser hair removal have both been used. There is a problem however. Under the hair plugs, the skin was cut to make the incision for the plug. Wherever skin is cut, like a knife wound, there is a scar. It may have healed and years of shamppoing with your fingertips may have worn the skin smooth (If not dermabrasion can smooth it, dont try laser resurfacing.......if Hair multiplication <cloning> ever becomes a reality, you might make your scalp unfit for it with laser resurfacing from what Ive been told). Anyway, there are WHITE scars under every hairplug. If you shave a few of them, and comb your hair over them.......you will see them. If your dark complected.......they will be obvious.....if your pale or very white, not so much.
If you go the electrolysis route, you might try putting emu oil or another anti-inflammatory (copper peptide) cream to soothe the scalp. There will be some short term irritation. Laser removal might take 2 or three sessions, but since scalp hair is in the growth phase 85-90% of the time, it should work if you start in the front, and slowly work your way back to the end of the plug field. If you are going to get this hair taken out, Id strongly recommend going to someone who just does hair removal. Dermatolgists, if they perform hairtransplants or have friends in medicine that do, are pretty sure to try their best to steer you to another Doctor to get more plug work. Thats part of the business. The Propecia+Transplants gimmick has made alot of surgeons rich and made alot of derms quite a bit of money in office visits. One hand washes the other here.
To play this on the safe side, you might consider just getting the foreward most plugs (first quarter inch or so of em') removed first, so you can examine the skin under them after dermabrasion is performed and see if a skin-colored tatoo (permanent makeup, or skin-colored makeup) can mask the skin. If your "pale".....you might not need anything, unless you have tons of plugs.
Here is a picture of Microsoft Chairman Steve Ballmer http://www.lane.ca/images/steve_ballmer.jpg . Can you imagine if he, at 20, had tried to get hair transplants? He simply does not have enough hair in his wreath to cover all of that scalp. He proboably only has 20-30 thousand hairs left in that hippocratic wreath of his. Hippocratic wreath's shape seems to be pretty much genetically predetermined, but the do INDEED thin out some as years pass. Look at Dr. Phil McGraw. When he was 20, he had hair. Transplant mills like Bosley, MHR, try to use pics of completely bald men with hair transplants with hair on top in an extremely trick-lighted, shaded-over-the-top-of-the-head way, to give you the impression that the wreath can cover the whole top if you completely bald. It really cant, and gets worse as years progress. Propecia grows hair for about two years, and then you very slowly begin to lose it......................getting to about where you started between year 12-14 according to one Doctor I talked to. You might be buying 20 years or so with propecia (I use it), but it does not STOP genetic baldness. Using minoxidil with it buys more time. However, even if its 25 years later, you will still get to where you were going to bald to. Until Hair multiplication (cloning) is available and well tested.........a man is taking a risk getting a transplant not necessarily now, but 15 years down the road. But with a head full of small white scars and a big zip scar in the back that makes buzz cuts a no no for him, he's kinda screwed. The docs know this, and his only option is to get more, take Propecia and minoxidil......and hope for a cure. Of course you can go to hairsite and research the body hair transplants, but at 5 bucks per hair unit (which with body hair is usually only one hair), youre looking at 50K or so to cover much scalp at all, and Ive only seen two that I thought were cosmetically acceptable. This is why I warn young men against transplants. IMO, if you were under 30 when you started losing hair, your genetics make this a bad idea.
Electrolysis and laser hair removal have both been used. There is a problem however. Under the hair plugs, the skin was cut to make the incision for the plug. Wherever skin is cut, like a knife wound, there is a scar. It may have healed and years of shamppoing with your fingertips may have worn the skin smooth (If not dermabrasion can smooth it, dont try laser resurfacing.......if Hair multiplication <cloning> ever becomes a reality, you might make your scalp unfit for it with laser resurfacing from what Ive been told). Anyway, there are WHITE scars under every hairplug. If you shave a few of them, and comb your hair over them.......you will see them. If your dark complected.......they will be obvious.....if your pale or very white, not so much.
If you go the electrolysis route, you might try putting emu oil or another anti-inflammatory (copper peptide) cream to soothe the scalp. There will be some short term irritation. Laser removal might take 2 or three sessions, but since scalp hair is in the growth phase 85-90% of the time, it should work if you start in the front, and slowly work your way back to the end of the plug field. If you are going to get this hair taken out, Id strongly recommend going to someone who just does hair removal. Dermatolgists, if they perform hairtransplants or have friends in medicine that do, are pretty sure to try their best to steer you to another Doctor to get more plug work. Thats part of the business. The Propecia+Transplants gimmick has made alot of surgeons rich and made alot of derms quite a bit of money in office visits. One hand washes the other here.
To play this on the safe side, you might consider just getting the foreward most plugs (first quarter inch or so of em') removed first, so you can examine the skin under them after dermabrasion is performed and see if a skin-colored tatoo (permanent makeup, or skin-colored makeup) can mask the skin. If your "pale".....you might not need anything, unless you have tons of plugs.
Here is a picture of Microsoft Chairman Steve Ballmer http://www.lane.ca/images/steve_ballmer.jpg . Can you imagine if he, at 20, had tried to get hair transplants? He simply does not have enough hair in his wreath to cover all of that scalp. He proboably only has 20-30 thousand hairs left in that hippocratic wreath of his. Hippocratic wreath's shape seems to be pretty much genetically predetermined, but the do INDEED thin out some as years pass. Look at Dr. Phil McGraw. When he was 20, he had hair. Transplant mills like Bosley, MHR, try to use pics of completely bald men with hair transplants with hair on top in an extremely trick-lighted, shaded-over-the-top-of-the-head way, to give you the impression that the wreath can cover the whole top if you completely bald. It really cant, and gets worse as years progress. Propecia grows hair for about two years, and then you very slowly begin to lose it......................getting to about where you started between year 12-14 according to one Doctor I talked to. You might be buying 20 years or so with propecia (I use it), but it does not STOP genetic baldness. Using minoxidil with it buys more time. However, even if its 25 years later, you will still get to where you were going to bald to. Until Hair multiplication (cloning) is available and well tested.........a man is taking a risk getting a transplant not necessarily now, but 15 years down the road. But with a head full of small white scars and a big zip scar in the back that makes buzz cuts a no no for him, he's kinda screwed. The docs know this, and his only option is to get more, take Propecia and minoxidil......and hope for a cure. Of course you can go to hairsite and research the body hair transplants, but at 5 bucks per hair unit (which with body hair is usually only one hair), youre looking at 50K or so to cover much scalp at all, and Ive only seen two that I thought were cosmetically acceptable. This is why I warn young men against transplants. IMO, if you were under 30 when you started losing hair, your genetics make this a bad idea.
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What exactly is your situation if you do not mind sharing it.