Archive for January, 2007

$17,320.00 for 2,500 grafts? Is this realistic?

I just visit a clinic to do hair transplant for my crown area. He sugeseted I add 2500 grafts using FUSS but the cost looks very expensive. He wants $17,320.00 ….so is this realistic price or what? I agree that this price would be high for strip excision hair transplantation, which normally ranges from $3 to [...]

Is shedding after a Hair Transplant normal?

Hello, I recently got my first hair transplant about 3 - 31/2 weeks ago. Over the last 2 or 3 days I’ve noticed that a lot of my transplanted hairs through-out my hairline have fallen out. However, through-out the top of my head the hairs are still there. Is it normal for my transplanted hairs [...]

Alternative hair loss treatments other than hair transplants

Short of hair transplants is their anything that anyone can suggest for hair loss and thinning. From a once very full coarse head of hair, I now can see my scalp and have no body whatsoever. I have tried eveything but it still continues to fall out. I am desperate to find someone who can [...]

Must I consult in person for a hair transplant?

If I want to do a consultation do I have to visit the hair transplant clinic in person first and thus have to make two round-trips for the consultation and the hair transplant? I’ve had a previous hair transplant with Bosley (1 year and 12 days ago) and I’d like to correct the front hair [...]

One-third Of Children Having Surgery Overweight Or Obese

A very high proportion of children who are having surgery are overweight or obese, and because of the excess weight have a greater chance of experiencing problems linked to the surgery, as per a new study from the University of Michigan Health System. Scientists looked at a database of all 6,017 pediatric surgeries at the U-M Hospital from 2000 to 2004, and they observed that nearly a third of the patients - 31.5 percent - were overweight or obese. More than half of those children qualified as obese, as per the study, which appears in the new issue of the Journal of the National Medical Association........