I am pleased to introduce to everyone Bosley Hair Care one of our new sponsers. At Bosley, the surgical transplantation of hair follicles is a remarkably simple outpatient procedure.
Hair Restoration may be the most important self-improvement decision of your life. If you suffer from hair loss, people think of to characterize you For this reason, it is vital to understand what effects a hair restoration procedure can have on your daily interactions with people and in all other aspects of your life.
If the hair restoration is a good one, meaning nearly unnoticeable to all but theexpert eye, you’ve practically been given a new lease on life with all the benefits. And the selection process you went through to find a great hair transplant doctor was well worth the attention you gave it.
If on the other hand, the hair restoration is easily noticeable, it’s a poor one. And it likely resulted from a decision to count factors other than skill and resources as the reason to choose a particular hair restoration physician.
So please keep the following in mind: In medical hair restoration, you have only one opportunity to ‘get it right.’ Therefore, this is one procedure for which corner-cutting and bargain-hunting is ill-advised. We urge you to do your homework. To help you do just that, we invite you to keep in mind these important guidelines.
Look for the correct credentials
Quality control of Bosley’s artistic and surgical standards is strictly maintained. It begins by choosing only physicians with an aptitude for the demanding surgical precision of the Bosley techniques. These physicians must be board-certified or have equivalent credentials. As a team, Dr. Bosley, the Medical Director and the Assistant Medical Director, work personally with every affiliated physician in a program of ongoing thorough training in the latest Bosley techniques.
Most highly qualified hair restoration physicians are Doctors of Medicine (M.D.s) and are board-certified by an American board, usually in one or more of four basic specialties: Dermatology, General Surgery, Plastic Surgery, or Hair Restoration Surgery.
The doctor’s Board Certificate(s) should be prominently displayed in his or her office so that you can clearly and conveniently read them. If a Board Certificate is not displayed, demand to see it!
Make sure that hair restoration is practiced full-time
Simply put, hair restoration is all we do. For more than 32 years, Bosley has specialized only in hair restoration–providing natural results, utilizing proven surgical procedures and advanced artistic techniques. We have always focused on the artistry–developing soft, realistic hairlines that look and feel completely natural.
While medical hair restoration is simple, minor surgery from the patient’s vantage point, a great looking finished hair transplant result demands that the doctor performing the procedure have specific, meticulous skills and an artistic sense refined through a full-time commitment to hair restoration.
We recommend avoiding any physician or group that provides other cosmetic procedures besides medical hair restoration. And be sure to steer clear of any groups whose doctors work in association with wig or ‘weave’ salesmen or so-called ‘trichologists,’ who often offer worthless ‘hair growth’ lotions, scalp massages and/or ultraviolet ray treatments to combat baldness.
Consider the single most important factor: artistic ability
The ability to create truly great hair transplant results goes beyond surgical skill, and requires training and experience in the artistry of hair restoration.
Like all aspects of hair restoration, hairline re-creation is only 10% – 20% the result of surgical skill. A great looking hair restoration result, however, is 80% – 90% the result of artistry, a skill which many surgeons–even many cosmetic surgeons–never develop. A physician who can produce a virtually undetectable hairline restoration must first know the classical rules of facial dimensions. He must also have developed a sculptor’s keen sense of balance and proportion, and a portrait painter’s sense of refinement in blending and shading.
When it comes to hair loss, everyone’s situation is different and personal. While heredity is the primary cause of hair loss in most cases, the severity of hair loss, its pattern, and the impact on that person’s life is truly unique. So is the solution. For many men and women, the benefits of a permanent solution to hair loss, hair restoration, is the right choice. But whatever you situation, Bosley wants you to have all the information, so you can make the right choice for you.”
Causes of Hair Loss
A Genetic Problem?
For most of us who are experiencing premature baldness, the cause is genetic. Hair loss, like eye color, is an inherited trait. While you were still forming in the womb, your hair follicles were being genetically coded. If genes responsible for hair loss were present, they made the hair follicles on top of your head sensitive to the hormone dihydrotestosterone, or DHT. These follicles were then predisposed to begin shrinking when you reached adulthood.
Unfortunately, once this genetic ball gets rolling, it will continue throughout your lifetime. As the hairs produced by your ever-shrinking follicles become finer and finer, they will begin failing to grow to normal length. And what is first noticed as “thinning hair” or a “receding hairline” progresses to baldness when the shrinking follicles finally stop producing any hair at all.
Popular Misconceptions
For many years our schools have taught – quite erroneously – that hair loss is always inherited from the mother’s father. Medical science now knows that baldness genes are passed down from both sides of the family. They also can skip generations, and are utterly random in terms of which siblings they will affect; it is quite common for a woman to keep a full head of hair while her sister begins experiencing severe thinning in her twenties.
How Important Is Hair Care?
Contrary to common belief, hair loss is not caused by a failure to take good care of your hair. Consumers waste millions of dollars on shampoos and phony, non-FDA approved treatments. (Only two medications, Rogaine and Propecia, have ever been approved by the FDA to treat hair loss.) We have counseled too many men and women who hold themselves responsible for their hair loss. It is important to understand that with very few exceptions, our hair follicles are going to live or die by their genetic coding – and nothing else.
Medical science is still searching for a complete understanding of the biochemical processes that occur within our hair follicles. Click here to learn more about the science behind hair loss and what you can do about it.
Lifelong hair follicles are found in good supply in virtually all men, even men with advanced baldness. These lifelong hairs are concentrated in an area at the back and sides of the head. We call this region the “donor area.” During the hair transplant procedure, our physicians take excess hairs – follicles and all – from this plentiful area and relocate them to areas of thinning and balding on the top or front of the head
Of course your approval of our strategy for your hair is an absolute must and will be your doctor’s central guide in tailoring your new hairline. Please be advised that individual hair transplant results may vary
The medical process for hair restoration involves the transplanting of hairs and follicles from one area of the head to another.
Every single follicle of hair on the human scalp is genetically programmed before birth to either become sensitive to the male hormones which begin to appear during puberty – causing the follicle to wither and die in time – or not to become sensitive to these hormones and continue growing throughout one’s lifetime.
During the hair transplant procedure, grafts are placed ONE AT A TIME in the thinning and balding areas. Bosley physicians are trained to artistically perform this procedure in a manner that results in virtually undetectable natural-looking restored hairlines and natural density
Why Hair Transplantatuon works
The scientific and artistic techniques that Bosley has been perfecting since 1974 allow Bosley physicians to recreate soft, natural, living hairlines that are virtually indistinguishable from the original hairlines that have eroded away. Finished Bosley hairlines are usually so soft and natural, they don’t have to be hidden by hair combed over in the front.
The Procedure:
During the hair transplant procedure, grafts are placed ONE AT A TIME in the thinning and balding areas. Bosley physicians are trained to artistically perform this procedure in a manner that results in virtually undetectable natural-looking restored hairlines and natural density.
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