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It’s estimated that over 80 million Americans struggle with hair loss, so you can see why there are so many rumors out there about what causes it. That’s why, in honor of National Hair Loss Awareness Month, we’ve compiled some of the biggest myths surrounding hair loss and uncovered the truth behind them. Have you heard any of these?
Myth: The mother passes down the baldness gene to her child.
Truth: The inherited form of thinning hair is passed down by both sides of the family, like pieces of a puzzle, that fit together and form the gene. How that puzzle assembles will dictate if your hair will stay or go.
Myth: Only men suffer from hair loss.
Truth: Women are also at risk for female patterned hair loss, typically called androgenetic alopecia. It most common begins in a woman’s 50s, but can also start as early as the teens. Female pattern hair loss is a hereditary condition that affects approximately 30 million women. When a hair is shed, it typically grows back by a hair that is equal in size. However, for women with female pattern hair loss the new hair is finer and eventually quits growing altogether.
Myth: Washing your hair too much will cause thinning.
Truth: It’s typical to shed about 100 hairs per day—new ones will replace these hairs during the growth cycle. However, if you notice more hairs come out, it’s most likely caused by something like Alopecia, stress or genetics—not your shampoo. See your board-certified dermatologist for advice to find out the real cause, but don’t cut back on washing your hair. If you cut back on shampooing it may cause buildup on the scalp, resulting in even more hair in the drain the next time you shower.
Myth: Pulling a gray hair out will make more grow.
Truth: While this isn’t true, you should avoid doing it. It’s good to keep as many hairs intact as possible, gray or not. Accept it or color it, but don’t pluck it.
Myth: Wearing a hat can cause hair loss.
Truth: There’s no truth in this one either. In fact, wearing a hat is recommended to protect your often-neglected scalp from the sun. Sun damage won’t necessarily cause hair loss unless there is a scar caused from a severe sunburn.
If you’re dealing with fine and thinning hair, try an at-home system like Low Level Laser Technology. For those looking to treat hair loss, talk to your doctor about the best hair-loss treatments available for your specific symptoms.
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Se estima que más de 80 millones de estadounidenses luchan con la pérdida del cabello, por lo que se puede ver por qué hay tantos rumores por ahí acerca de qué lo causa. Es por eso que, en honor al Mes Nacional de Concientización sobre la pérdida de cabello, hemos recopilado algunos de los mayores mitos que rodean a la pérdida de cabello y descubrimos la verdad detrás de ellos. ¿Has escuchado alguno de estos?
Mito: La madre pasa por el gen de la calvicie a su hijo.Verdad: La forma hereditaria de adelgazamiento del cabello se transmite por ambos lados de la familia, como las piezas de un rompecabezas, que encajan entre sí y forman el gen. ¿Cómo que ensambla rompecabezas dictarán si su pelo se mantenga o vaya.
Mito: Sólo los hombres sufren de pérdida de cabello.Verdad: Las mujeres también corren el riesgo de pérdida de cabello femenino estampado, normalmente llamada alopecia androgenética. Comienza más común en los años 50 de una mujer, pero también puede comenzar tan temprano como a los adolescentes. Mujer pérdida de cabello es una condición hereditaria que afecta a aproximadamente 30 millones de mujeres. Cuando se elimina un pelo, normalmente crece de nuevo por un pelo que es igual en tamaño. Sin embargo, para las mujeres con pérdida de cabello de patrón femenino el nuevo pelo es más fino y con el tiempo deja de crecer en conjunto.
Mito: Lavarse el pelo demasiado causará adelgazamiento.Verdad: Es típico de arrojar unos 100 pelos por los días de nuevo reemplazará estos pelos durante el ciclo de crecimiento. Sin embargo, si se observa más pelos salen, es más probable que sea causado por algo como la alopecia, el estrés o la genética, no su champú. Consulte a su dermatólogo certificado por el consejo de asesoramiento para encontrar la causa real, pero no recortar en lavarse el pelo. Si se corta de nuevo en el champú que puede causar la acumulación en el cuero cabelludo, lo que resulta en más pelo en el desagüe la próxima vez que te duchas.
Mito: Tracción de un cabo canas hará que más crecen.Verdad: Si bien esto no es así, se debe evitar hacerlo. Es bueno tener tantos pelos intacta posible, gris o no. Acéptalo o colorearlo, pero no arrancarlo.
Mito: Usar un sombrero puede causar pérdida de cabello.Verdad: No hay ninguna verdad en éste tampoco. De hecho, se recomienda el uso de un sombrero para proteger su cuero cabelludo a menudo descuidado del sol. El daño solar no necesariamente causa la pérdida del cabello a menos que haya una cicatriz causada por una quemadura grave.
Si usted está tratando con fino y adelgazamiento del cabello, trate de un sistema en el hogar como la tecnología láser de baja intensidad. Para aquellos que buscan para tratar la pérdida de cabello, hable con su médico acerca de los mejores tratamientos de pérdida de cabello para los síntomas específicos.
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Hair Loss News:
A man with a rare autoimmune disease that left him hairless was able to grow hair after treatment with an arthritis drug, Medical News Today reported.
The 25-year-old man has alopecia universalis, a rare autoimmune disease that causes hair loss over the entire body when the immune system mistakenly attacks hair follicles. Doctors at Yale University tried an unusual treatment using an FDA-approved drug, tofacitinib citrate, which is designed to treat the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis. The patient was able to regrow a full head of hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, facial, groin and other hair.
The drug had been shown to successfully treat a less extreme form of alopecia in lab rats and this is the first reported case of success in a person.
“There are no good options for long-term treatment of alopecia universalis,” Prof. King explains, “The best available science suggested this might work, and it has,” senior author Brett A. King, an assistant professor of dermatology at Yale University School of Medicine, said.
The patient also had been diagnosed with plaque psoriasis, a condition that causes scaly red patches to develop on the skin. Prior to treatment, the only hair he had on his body were on the psoriasis plaques on his head.
After eight months of tofacitinib treatment, the patient has regrown all his hair and has not reported any side effects. Prior to treatment, he did not have any hair on his scalp or face for seven years.
Researchers suggested that the drug works by stopping the immune system from attacking hair follicles. King has proposed a trial using a cream form of the medicine as a treatment for alopecia areata.
There are 2.5 million Americans with alopecia areata, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders. Symptoms typically surface during childhood.
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Pérdida del cabello Noticias:
Un hombre con una enfermedad autoinmune poco frecuente que lo dejó sin pelo era capaz de hacer crecer el cabello después del tratamiento con un medicamento para la artritis, informó Medical News Today.
El hombre de 25 años de edad tiene alopecia universal, una enfermedad autoinmune poco común que causa la pérdida de cabello en todo el cuerpo cuando el sistema inmunológico ataca equivocadamente los folículos pilosos. Los médicos de la Universidad de Yale intentaron un tratamiento inusual uso de un medicamento aprobado por la FDA, tofacitinib citrato, que está diseñado para el tratamiento de la artritis reumatoide enfermedad autoinmune. El paciente fue capaz de regenerar una cabeza llena de cabello, cejas, pestañas, cara, la ingle y el otro pelo.
La droga había sido demostrado con éxito para tratar una forma menos extrema de la alopecia en ratas de laboratorio y este es el primer caso de éxito de una persona.
“No hay buenas opciones para el tratamiento a largo plazo de alopecia universal,” Prof. Rey explica, “la mejor ciencia disponible sugiere que esto podría funcionar, y tiene” el autor principal Brett A. King, profesor asistente de dermatología en la Universidad de Yale Escuela Universitaria de Medicina, dijo.
El paciente también había sido diagnosticada con psoriasis en placas, una condición que causa manchas rojas escamosas de desarrollar en la piel. Antes del tratamiento, el único pelo que tenía en su cuerpo estaban en las placas de psoriasis en la cabeza.
Después de ocho meses de tratamiento tofacitinib, el paciente ha vuelto a crecer todo su pelo y no se ha reportado ningún efecto secundario. Antes del tratamiento, él no tenía ningún pelo en el cuero cabelludo o la cara durante siete años.
Los investigadores sugirieron que el medicamento actúa deteniendo el sistema inmunitario ataque los folículos pilosos. King ha propuesto un ensayo mediante un formulario crema de la medicina como un tratamiento para la alopecia a reata.
Hay 2,5 millones de estadounidenses con alopecia areata, de acuerdo con la Organización Nacional de Enfermedades Raras. Generalmente, los síntomas superficiales durante la infancia.
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In an article in the Prime Dermatology journal, authored by Dr. Chang Jun Huhen, titled “Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Hair Transplantation”, Dr. Huh reviews the evolution of hair restoration surgical options and contrasts that to technological advancements and unique benefits offered by the ARTAS Robotic Procedure.


Over the past 10 years, robotic procedures have enhanced surgical care that doctors give their patients.  Robotic systems help surgeons improve the outcome for patients and help reduce manual and repetitive movements, which ensures more accuracy and precision.  The use of robots has paved the future for surgeries and will help patients have better experiences. The advantages of minimally robotic procedures appeals to doctors and patients, because of decreased pain and increased recovery time.
Restoration Robotics was founded by physicians and engineers to help develop a solution for hair restoration patients.  Robotic technology plays a role in Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) because it gives patients consistent and safe results, with no visible scarring or long recovery time.  The ARTAS Robotic System enables surgeons to give their patients natural-looking outcomes with fast recovery time.
In the past, hair restoration involved Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT), where a strip of scalp is surgically removed and individual hair grafts are generated by manual dissection.  This has been common practice FUT method since the early 90’s.  Soon after, manual FUE started, by using small dermal punches to remove single hair grafts directly from donor sites and implant them in the balding scalp area.  This was the beginning of a less invasive technique with faster healing time.
The ARTAS Robotic System is a FDA approved, physician controlled, interactive computer-assisted system that enables harvesting of hair follicles during hair restoration.  It is the first and only technology that allows physician-controlled, image-guided, robotic assisted FUE.  The robot is programmed to be able to do with great precision what physicians can do only with extensive experience.  The robot can harvest follicular units in a random pattern, or as a percentage of the total number of follicular units in a designated area.  The physician can make changes to dissection depths and angles during the process.  Because the robot is making the repetitive actions, it makes the process go much faster.
Benefits of ARTAS Robotic Hair Transplants:

  • Robotically precise and consistent
  • Reduced treatment time
  • Decreased discomfort
  • Faster recovery time
  • No linear scar
  • Undetectable donor area

The robotic system dissect grafts accurately and consistently, thousands of times with acceptably low transection rates of between 4.9%-8%.  The ARTAS system will also soon be able to use sophisticated 3D patient modeling and design to help create recipient sites at the rate of 2,000 per hour.  The addition of the ARTAS system attracts many patients that would be hesitant to try traditional transplant procedure, and allows physicians to take hair restoration to the next level and produce high patient satisfaction.
Please see the attached article for a more in-depth view of the ARTAS System.


Although platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has been used for many years in other medical specialties, including orthopedics,  it has only recently become one of the latest techniques with hair restoration.  PRP is used for all Hair Restoration/Hair Loss patients, including patients who have Robotic Hair Transplants. PRP is an exciting non-surgical therapeutic treatment for patients who require stimulation of hair growth for hair loss conditions. The use of PRP for the treatment of alopecia areata and androgenetic alopecia (hereditary male or female hair loss) is available from Dr. Mark Bishara’s office.
While PRP is in the early stages of scientific research in hair restoration, PRP is not meant to replace current FDA approved therapies such as DHT blockers and Minoxidil. but it is a promising non-surgical therapeutic option for those patients with hair loss.
What is PRP – Platelet Rich Plasma?
PRP Platelet Rich Plasma is the use of a person’s own blood platelets to enhance hair growth as a stand-alone treatment or to improve the recovery and results of hair transplant surgery. In the field of cell therapy and tissue regeneration, research is continuing to progress regarding the use of PRP’s ability to stimulate stem cells, improve wound healing, and rejuvenate skin and hair follicles. PRP is done in 3 month intervals
Growth Factors
The human growth hormone (hGH), insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3), basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF or FGF-2), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB)- levels are significantly elevated after PRP injection, supporting a possible ergogenic effect of PRP.
What is LLLT (Low Level Laser Therapy)
The LaserCap® using Low Level Laser Technology (LLLT) can help men and women of all ages who suffer from hair loss by emitting pulses of laser light energy to the scalp to stimulate the hair follicles and improve blood circulation in the area, encouraging hair growth once again. Men and women being treated for hair loss sit comfortably under the lasers as it gently delivers the phototherapy to the scalp. Most of our patients read a magazine during treatments. There is no pain or discomfort from the therapy–some patients do report some “scalp-tingling.”  The laser cap is much more successful and effective in hair restoration then hand held devices that are available on the market.   The usual treatments occur 2-3 times per week.  The laser cap is available to have treatments done in our office, or can be purchased and take home with you.
For more information on PRP, LLLT and other hair restoration treatments, please call our office at (817) 473-2120.  Please come in and get evaluated with an endocrine testing panel, that tests your thyroid, testosterone, iron, and serotonin levels, to name a few. We also refer out for scalp biopsies for female patients, to determine the causes of hair loss.
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