Can improper care of my hair cause hair loss?

Yes. If you wear pigtails or cornrows or use tight hair rollers, the pull on your hair can cause a type of hair loss called traction alopecia (say: al-oh-pee-sha). If...

What causes excessive hair loss?

A number of things can cause excessive hair loss. For example, about 3 or 4 months after an illness or a major surgery, you may suddenly lose a large amount...

What is the normal cycle of hair growth and loss?

The normal cycle of hair growth lasts for 2 to 6 years. Each hair grows approximately 1 centimeter (less than half an inch) per month during this phase. About 90...

Combo technique:

We started doing the Combo technique in 2009 and called it FLUTE technique then. It was under the mistaken surmise that a combination technique will give more grafts. Many doctors...

Does FUE give lower yield than a strip surgery?

FUT surgeons have always since the past one decade put forth their vociferous points of view about poor yield. If you state a lie a thousand times, it takes control...

What is the Golden harvest?

Golden Harvest refers to Anagen Selective Harvest. Anagen Selective FUE grows better hair. The hair in FUT which are in regression phases have a high chance of going into dormancy...

What are the indications for FUE?

All patients who are candidates for FUT are candidates for FUE. However, FUE has widened the horizon of surgical hair restoration by allowing the surgeon to look beyond the traditional...

What are the complications of hair transplant as a whole that may defame/bring disrepute to the procedure in general with catastrophic outcome?

Young surgeons falling to propaganda of companies selling their wares. There is a common misconception that some machines do all the work which is absolutely unfounded and spread by unethical...

What are the principles of the various steps in the procedure?

FUE is the harvesting of follicular units using refined miniscule punches which may range in size from 0.65-0.85 mm in internal diameter. The system used may be motorised or robotic....

What are the misconceptions about the FUE technique that may be misrepresented by those indulging in propaganda?

There is no scar. (scar tissue is present after every surgical technique.) FUE gives better density (there is no difference in density in either technique if you have selected your...

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