Hair transplantation is a surgical technique that removes hair follicles from one part of the body, called the ‘donor site’, to a bald or balding part of the body known as the ‘recipient site’. The technique is primarily used to treat male pattern baldness.

During the FUE procedure, hair is extracted from a donor site in your scalp, usually the back and sides of the scalp and then carefully transplanted to thinning or balding areas.  The hair is extracted by first making very tiny circular punch incisions around a follicular unit of hair.  A typical follicular unit will contain 1-4 hairs.  Once a follicular unit is removed, the donor scalp completely heals and there is no linear scar, unlike the strip method.

It is not known what causes psoriasis. However, there is a definite genetic component to the disease.

There are many causes of hair loss. Most commonly it can be genetic, age related hair loss. Both men and women tend to lose hair thickness and amount as they age. Inherited or pattern baldness affects many more men than women. About 25% of men begin to bald by the time they are 30 years old, and about two-thirds are either bald or have a balding pattern by age 60. Other causes of hair loss are stress, illness, trauma, medication-related, and auto immune. Alopecia areata is a very common auto-immune disorder causing patches of hair loss.

Evaluation by a dermatologist may help to define the cause of the hair loss and to work with you to develop a treatment plan. Sometimes a small (and relatively painless) biopsy or laboratory evaluation may be necessary to understand the reason for hair loss.