by Paul J. McAndrews | Jul 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is a more complex question than meets the eye. The short answer is “Yes, in a properly trained doctor’s hands, the transplanted grafts will typically continue to grow thick terminal hair throughout the person’s lifetime”. However, what patients usually mean when...
by Paul J. McAndrews | Jun 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
A stereoscopic microscope is a high-powered microscope that provides 3D magnification, allowing a surgical team to view hair follicle structure with incredible clarity and depth. Using a stereoscopic microscope in hair transplant surgery – in both Follicular Unit...
by Paul J. McAndrews | Jun 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
PP405 has been making the news lately as a potential revolutionary treatment for the most common form of hair loss, androgenetic alopecia. The holy grail in regenerative medicine for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia would be to find “the key” to that prone hair...
by Paul J. McAndrews | Jun 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is a question I hear quite often from patients, athletes, and fitness enthusiasts alike: “Does creatine cause hair loss?” The short answer is no, creatine itself has not been proven to cause hair loss. While one study years ago raised concerns about a possible...
by Paul J. McAndrews | May 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
What Is the Ludwig Scale? Female-pattern hair loss (FPHL), also called androgenetic alopecia, is the most common form of hair loss in women. The areas prone (frontal forelock, mid-forelock, and vertex) to thinning secondary to androgenetic alopecia are shown in the...
by Paul J. McAndrews | May 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
What is the Norwood Hair Loss Scale? Male-pattern hair loss (MPHL), also called androgenetic alopecia, is the most common form of hair loss. The areas prone (frontal forelock, mid-forelock, and vertex) to balding in androgenetic alopecia are shown in the graph below....
