Posts Tagged ‘hair loss’
Fabulous Hair Transformation
This patient is a 58 year old Caucasian female who had developed significant hair breakage from highlights and keratin treatments, in the context of early female pattern hair loss. She stopped the damaging treatments and started using topical minoxidil and oral finasteride 5mg daily. Two years later, you can see her amazing hair transformation!
Read MoreFemale – Medical Hair Loss Therapy
This is a 46 year old woman with female pattern hair loss. Dr. Rogers started her on spironolactone increasing to a dose of 150mg daily as well as topical minoxidil 5% foam once daily in the morning and oral Viviscal supplement twice daily. Her photos at baseline and 1 year later.
Read MoreFinasteride Treatment for Hairline Restoration & Maintenance
Finasteride is the generic name for the brand name drugs Proscar and Propecia. In 1997 it was approved for treatment of hair loss in the crown for men. What consumers don’t know is that the claim for treatment only in the crown is because the FDA trials only studied hair growth in the crown. This…
Read MoreDr. Rogers Performs PRP for Hair Loss on WWL – TV
As part of their “Mens Makeover” segment, Dr. Rogers hosted Mike Hoss from WWL News (New Orleans) Dr. Rogers performed platelet rich plasma (PRP) injection therapy for hair loss on one of her patients. The patient was a 35 year old male with Norwood Class IV male pattern hair loss. Dr. Rogers’ nurse Putrina carefully drew the patient’s…
Read MoreAlopecia Areata Treated by PRP – Platelet Rich Plasma
This 37 year old female had hair loss due to alopecia areata. She had failed numerous first-line therapies including topical steroids and steroid injections. We treated her with a single session of PRP and she had dramatic regrowth. Note: Alopecia areata is a rather unpredictable condition, which can regrow even without therapy. These results cannot…
Read MoreFemale Hair Transplant – Case Study – Advanced Hair Loss Restoration
This 66 year old female had progressive thinning over the vertex area for many years. Dr. Rogers believed that her condition was either CCCA (central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia) or FPHL (female pattern hair loss) and given the possibility of poor growth with CCCA elected to do a test transplant first of 25 hairs. When she followed up at…
Read MoreSpring-Summer Shedding: Is it Normal?
Yes! There is evidence that it may be normal for your body to shed a certain amount of hair in the spring and summer seasons. This is because there is evidence that the time of year when the greatest number of hairs are in the resting or ‘telogen’ phase. Thus, we humans are not that…
Read MoreDr. James Slusher Visits from Orlando
Dr. Slusher, a friend and colleague of Dr. Rogers, spent a week visiting with us at Hair Restoration of the South. Together Dr. Rogers and Dr. Slusher diagnosed and treated and large number of patients with male and female pattern hair loss, cicatricial alopecia, and alopecia areata. Our hair transplant case was an FUT (strip)…
Read MorePromising Research on Stem Cells for Hair Growth
Dr. Nicole Rogers Feature in Huffington Post Article on Stem Cells Research Dr. Rogers spoke with the Huffington Post about new developments in the realm of stem cell replication. Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., showed that stem cells derived from human skin can be used to grow hair–at least in…
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