Los Angeles is known as the Mecca of Stars and celebrities. From Beverly Hills, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, ‘The Valley’ and the county the faces of film, television and stage can be seen in cafés, markets and the like. The professions of celebrities demand that they maintain a great self image. So, there is no wonder hair loss becomes an even more important issue for many in LA.

US Hair Restoration of Beverly Hills and Los Angeles are leading hair transplant centers.  US Hair Restoration has been serving celebrities as well as people of all walks of life to improve their self image and appearance.  The advent of follicular unit extraction hair transplantation has thrust our Southern California hair restorations to the forefront by taking the newest of Follicular Unit Extraction hair transplant procedures and establishing a method that allows public figures to restore their hair without intruding on their demanding schedule.

Renowned surgeon Dr. Parsa Mohebi has developed an innovative process to transform celebrities’ hairlines without interruption of their busy public schedules. Of course any one can take advantage of this least invasive method of hair restoration. The results are natural and proven because it is your own hair.

Celebrity FUE Transplant involves having the follicular units to be removed individually. There is not surgical incision for removal of a strip of scalp.  Unlike other FUE transplants there not a need to shave the entire back or the thinning area of head. This outpatient procedure that takes not more than 3-4 hours allow the person to maintain his/her hair look with no obvious sign of a surgery. The process is more gradual because we limit the number of grafts to four to five hundred at a time. The transformation is also more gradual and undetectable. That is exactly what most celebrities prefer and choose. The celebrities enjoy the benefit of minimal interruption to their eventful lives and not a drastic change in their appearance.  Each person may need to repeat this procedure a few time based on the extent of the balding area or the desired density.

Of course this new approach is not limited to celebrities.  Celebrity FUE transplant is for anyone who wants to enjoy the benefit of a healthy head of hair with minimal downtime and scarring. Whether you opt for a single procedure or our unique Celebrity FUE Hair Transplant we are certain you will like the new you after your hair restoration process.

US Hair Restoration Centers welcomes people who have considered hair restoration for years to make this step in 2013. The science of medical hair restoration is now a natural, proven and permanent method to improve your self image. Led by renown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Surgeon, Parsa Mohebi, MD we continue our commitment to be leaders in the field. Learn More >>>

We wish all our patients and everyone a promising and successful new year!

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Hello Dr. Mohebi,

I had a previous hair transplant which overall was not too bad. It was about ten years ago. I want to know what could be done with the scar at the back of my head. I do some on screen work and now I wear my hair shorter or would like to. Can the scar from my FUT be improved? Another showbiz friend said you are known to be excellent at this. Is there any hope of doing that?

Thanks, John

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Great question John!

Scar revision is one of the areas I really enjoy and have the honor of being able to help patients. Scarring like balding really negatively impacts people’s lives. It is rewarding to be able to help in this way. In our hair restoration practice we take extraordinary care to minimize the scar of an FUT hair transplant surgery. In fact I was able to develop and invention that is gaining widespread use in hair restoration. It is called the Laxometer. By allowing the surgeon to more accurately measure scalp laxity he or she is able to better plan the minimization to the best of ability of the donor wound.

Along with special wound closure techniques there are other ways in which modern hair transplant yields more natural, proven and permanent results by minimizing the scar.

1. Simple Scar Revision: This method can be used if the scalp scar is wide due to initial technical problem during wound closure.

2. Scar Revision and Trichophytic closure: This method allows hair to grow inside the scar and minimize the contrast between scar and surrounding areas of the scalp.

3. Hair transplantation inside the scar: In this method, we harvest hair from other areas of the scalp and transplant inside scar to blend in the scar: Some people may need more than one surgery, but the result is usually great. We can utilize FUE hair transplant procedure in this method. The primary benefit of FUE is that follicles are removed individually and can be then placed into the scar area. So new scarring does not occur during the revisioning.

4. Tattooing the scar: By tattooing stubble on scar the visibility of the scar can be significantly improved through the balancing of the color or reducing the contrast in color between the scar tissue and the surrounding scalp area.

Again the final method will be discussed during our consultation and patients may need a combination of these techniques to provide the best result.

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It seems to me that successful outcomes can, to a substantial degree, rely on the technicians handling the hair follicles. How do you measure your technicians skills?

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We have a great quality control system at US Hair Restoration in which every technician is monitored during cutting and placing.  We also have surveillance cameras in the OR to record the entire procedure for quality control.  We hire only highly qualified hair transplant technicians.  We still need to provide some special training to assure they can function according to US Hair Restoration standards.  We hold regular educational meeting for hair transplant techs to keep them all up to date on current procedures as well as US Hair Restoration quality expectations.

Check this post on my blog:  US Hair Restoration – Hiring Qualified Hair Transplant Technicians for more information on quality of hair transplant technicians.

Hair Care Beverly Hills interview with Dr. Parsa Mohebi

Below is the second interview of Hair Care Beverly Hills with Dr. Parsa Mohebi.  Dr. Mohebi is the medical director of US Hair Restoration hair transplant centers in Southern California with offices in Encino, Beverly Hills, Orange County and San Diego.  Dr. Mohebi is the author of Hair Restoration Blog.  He also responds to the questions of many other resources of hair loss and hair restoration.  Her is his recent interview of him by Hair Care Beverly Hills for BuzyMoms.com.

• If a client has already had a transplant with another hair transplant doctor and is disappointed with the hair restoration results, can the procedure be redone?

Yes, hair transplant repairs are a good portion of our hair transplant surgeries performed in our Southern California offices (located in Beverly Hills, Encino and Orange County). Many people may have unnatural results from previous hair transplants due to the older techniques such as plug surgery, but some may even have problems with recent hair restoration procedures due to technical issues or lack of proper judgment on the part of the hair transplant surgeon. In most situations, the repair is easy and can be done in one or two sessions.

• Is there a minimum age for hair transplant surgery?

It was not unusual that a Hair transplant surgeon discourage a person younger than 24 for a hair restoration surgery.  However, nowadays microscopic techniques being used to evaluate the miniaturization of susceptible hair can assist surgeons in predicting the final pattern of hair loss. By being able to predict each patient’ s final balding stages, we are able to see where the pattern of baldness is heading and based on that recommend hair transplant surgery at an earlier age.

• Won’ t my bare scalp be showing in the back of my head once the donor hair is taken?

If you do not plan on shaving your hair after your hair transplant surgery, your donor wound will never be visible. However, if you plan on shaving your head for any reason, you may choose to have a FUE or Follicular Unit Extraction procedure done rather than the general FUT procedure through removing a strip from the donor area. FUE transplant eliminates the visibility of a linear scar on the back of your head and is the best option for patients who plan on shaving their head or keeping their hair very short in the future.

• Do you provide free consultations?

Yes, the initial consultation with me (Dr. Parsa Mohebi) is always free in any of our Southern California hair transplant offices in Beverly Hills, Encino and Orange County and San Diego.

• What type of information should be brought to the consultation?

Anything related to your hair loss and hair restoration, including family history of hair loss, other medical conditions that may have been attributed to ones hair loss, medical, surgical or even cosmetic changes that you like and may help you have a better result after a hair restoration procedure.

According to a recent L.A. Times article, people in our current economy are scaling back on elective cosmetic treatments, and finding ways to negotiate costs and figuring out what’s really necessary (e.g. Botox) and what’s not (e.g. massages and body scrubs).  We have posted on Recession and hair transplant cost before.

US Hair Restoration understands that people have found themselves in challenging economic circumstances. Our goal has always been, “offering quality hair transplant for everyone”. We want to relieve the pressure on people by responding to patients’ needs for more affordable hair transplant prices.

Every year, we have a summer hair transplant special, but this year, we’re going to offer it several months in advance as part of an unprecedented and huge hair transplant cost reduction. And we promise it will be the lowest price ever for our hair transplants using our standby program.

For those who are seriously considering getting a hair restoration procedure, the best time to get one is when we have this reduced-price offer. This is a limited offer and the price might not ever be this low. Now is the time to take advantage of it.

Offering hair transplant cost discounts in our standby program helps us to fill all openings in our operating room schedules. On the other hand, for those people who can be a bit more flexible with the timing of the surgery, it helps them get a US Hair Restoration-quality hair transplant done at historically low rates, at one of our Southern California offices: Beverly Hills, Encino, and Orange County.

The bright side to the recession is that retailers and companies are offering lower-than-usual prices for their products, knowing consumers have become increasingly tight-fisted about their cash. Our earlier-than-usual summer special is our way of saying we are sensitive to our patients’ financial circumstances.

Check US Hair Restoration for more info on our hair transplant promotions.

Q:

hi

I come from china ，I would like to consult your organization a few questions:

In your experience,usually Asians（chinese people) the normal growth of the number of roots Per cm² of hair? Head at the top and post-occipital whether there are different?
using FUE technology，on one operation ，After the occipital Site  get the maxinum number of FU (Asians including 2-3 days operation) at present,how much FU can be planted per square centimeter on Planting area? Between the scope of? and the percentage with normal?

Looking forward to your reply Details!

Thanks for your questions.

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Here are the answers in the order they were received:

The number of hair follicles

The number of hair follicles in non-balding areas of scalp like occipital areas have been studied.  A range of 80 – 120 follicular units (FUs) per centimeter were reported. The density of follicular units vary in different locations of the scalp. Also, the number of hairs per follicular unit vary in different areas and with different races. For example, Asians usually have less number of hair follicles per cm², so even with similar number of FUs per cm², the density of their donor area is still less than Caucasians. To calculate the number of hair per cm², you have to average the number of hairs per FU and multiply it by the number of FUs per cm².

Difference of hair on top and back

The shaft of hair may or may not be different in different areas of the scalp. Obviously, if you are balding, you see more miniaturization and less terminal hair, which makes the appearance of the hair less dense on the area. However, without baldness, hair quality would be the same in back and top of the head.

FUE and number of grafts

FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction) is more labor intense and requires more time for harvesting the grafts. For that reason, FUE procedures are generally smaller in terms of the number of grafts per session. What we do at US Hair Restoration is up to 1,500 grafts per day on average, for 8 to 10 hours work in a FUE procedure. The number may occasionally go up to 2,000 grafts, too, but not everyone can expect to get that number with FUE.

Density of transplanted hair

There are many research projects on this topic. The number can be as high as normal density in some circumstances. However, practically we can make up to 35%-40% of the normal density in one session. This is a good number if you consider that the density of hair on frontal areas could be about half of the hair on the donor area in some patients, so 35%-40% is not that far from the normal density in those patients.

The effectiveness of medical hair restoration alone with hair restoration medical options that are currently available such as finasteride or Rogaine has always been questioned.  Medical hair restoration without the surgical option (hair transplant), might work for some people, but should not be recommended to all as a cure-all solution, as you may find in some advertisements.

The available FDA-approved medications for hair loss prevention are finasteride and minoxidil.  Although both are effective, they may have different indications for male and female patterned baldness. They might not be considered a complete treatment for male patterned baldness, as pharmaceuticals may try to show.

Medical hair restoration should be seen as a preventative measure which should be considered, along with the surgical options, as part of a master plan. Most people are prone to shock loss that may happen after a hair transplant surgery and they need to be on preventative measures such as finasteride at least a few months around the time of surgery. Shock loss after a hair transplant used to be one of the biggest problems that hair transplant patients had up until the last few years. Now, most hair transplant patients go on finasteride after a hair transplant surgery.