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There are two different ways to approach thinning hair. People often spend months researching the
wrong one for their situation.
A hair transplant moves hair you have into an area where it has gone. It is surgery, a surgeon
does it, and we do not perform it here.
Non-surgical hair restoration works on the hair that is there and tries to get more out of it.
That is PRP, laser, microneedling, and the medical side of it.
One thing decides which of those applies to you: whether the follicles in the thinning area are
alive.
Look at what the hair is doing, not at how much of it there is.
Thinning means the hairs grow, but they come through finer, shorter and lighter than they used
to. You can see hair in the area. Those follicles work, and they struggle.
Bald means the follicle shut down. The skin looks smooth, there is no fine fuzz, and it has been
that way a long time.
This is hard to judge on yourself in a bathroom mirror, especially at the crown. It takes about five
minutes to check in person.
Roughly:
If your hair thins and is getting finer, non-surgical treatment has something to work with. If
recession is early and you want to slow it, the same applies, and starting sooner gives it more to
work with.
If areas are bare and have been for years, that points to a transplant. Nothing non-surgical
restarts a follicle that closed.
Plenty of people have both: bare areas plus thinning around them. That is the case people miss.
A transplant fills the bare part and does nothing for the thinning hair around it. That hair goes on
thinning.
Not hair that is gone. Be careful with this claim when you read around the subject.
Non-surgical treatment supports follicles that are active. Hairs can come through thicker and remain in
the growing phase longer. On a thinning crown that can be a visible difference.
On skin that has been bare for a decade, it will not happen. Anyone promising regrowth on a bald area
without seeing your scalp is selling something.
Three approaches, often combined. Which ones you get depends on the assessment.
PRP. We take a small amount of your blood, separate the platelet rich portion, and inject it into
the scalp. It is your own material, which is part of the appeal.
Laser. We use the Lumenis FoLix, a fractional laser approach to the scalp. It is a different
category from the low level laser caps sold online.
Microneedling for the scalp, used to stimulate the area and improve what gets absorbed.
None of these is a one appointment fix. They work as a course, and consistency counts for more than
intensity.
Slower than almost anyone wants.
Hair grows on its own schedule. The follicle has to cycle before anything you do appears above the
skin, so a fair assessment takes months.
Take a photo at the start, in the same light, from the same angle. Everyone misjudges their own hair
in both directions, and a photo from four months ago settles the argument.
That is the normal starting position, and it is a short conversation.
We look at the scalp, check the pattern, and tell you what we see. If you need a transplant, we will
say so, even though we do not do them.
Starting a course of treatment on a scalp that needs surgery wastes your time and your money.
If your hair has changed, get it looked at before you decide what to spend money on. The earlier the
assessment, the more options are open.
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