06
Jul
Do Growth Factors Effect the Development of Hair? YES!
While some growth factors are known to inhibit hair growth such as TGF beta, the majority of growth factors like platelet derived growth factor PDGF are essential to epidermis-follicle interaction and the dermal mechenchyme interaction required for hair canal formation and growth...
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Jul
Follicular Biologics: In Surgical Hair Transplantation and Non-Surgical Hair Restoration Therapy
The ability to safely heal damaged tissue and regenerate new tissue with one's own cells is the future of Regenerative Medicine. It is now possible to restore damaged cells in humans and animals by simply taking their own blood, processing it to increase the bodies healing ...
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Oct
Permanent Answers For Female Hair Treatments
In a 2011 issue of the Hair Transplant Forum International, Walter Unger, MD Toronto, Ontario, Canada one of the most published and respected Hair Restoration surgeons in our field writes: “Last year, in an issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, one of our esteemed colleagues was ...
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May
Philosophy
NATURALNESS AND UNDETECTABILITY Our goal is to create a natural hairline in one session. In other words, it should not take another session to create naturalness, but if the patient would like to increase density or cover a larger area of hair loss that is the goal in any additio...
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May
Utilizing Art
UTILIZING ART AND MATHEMATIC PRINCIPLES IN FACIAL FRAMING AND HAIR RESTORATION DESIGN Like any play or film, a picture must be put together so that its component parts make a balanced, harmonious whole to hold the attention of the viewer. It is the blueprint for a painting or the...
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May
01
May
Leonardo Fibonacci
RELATING TO THE NATURAL HAIR GROWTH PATTERN Leonardo Fibonacci, an Italian born in 1175 AD, discovered the Fibonacci series in which the sum of the squares of any series of Fibonicci numbers will equal the last Fibonacci number used in the series times the next Fibonacci number...
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Apr
Golden Section
COUNTLESS GOLDEN RATIOS In 500 B. C. Phidias, a Greek sculptor designed statues for the Parthenon based on Pi and PHI. The golden section was popularized and used by Renaissance artists to achieve balance, proportion and beauty in their works as illustrated in Da Vinci's mas...
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Apr
Focal Points
BRINGING ATTENTION TO THE EYES As artists choose “focal points” in their portraits, so must the skilled aesthetic surgeon when re-sculpting the face. A true work of art should bring attention to the eyes and then secondarily to the area of restoration or enhancement...
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Apr
Facial Framing
BRINGS BALANCE, PERSPECTIVE AND BEAUTY The same principal is used when designing the facial framing. (Lower) The eyes are the focal point (Blue lines) and the secondary focal point is created with the intersecting angles (Green line) that will be the frontal hairline peak. This a...
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Apr
Fibonacci Spiral
UTILIZING NATURE AND BEAUTY The innate brilliance of the Fibonacci spiral can be appreciated when compared to the Nautilus. The spiral is ubiquitous in nature and can be appreciated in everything from beehives to sunflowers. Because of the perfect balance, proportion and beauty i...
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Apr
BIO-FUE™ FAQ’S
HAIR GROWTH POST HAIR RESTORATION PROCEDURE Ninety percent of hair grows for 1,000 days (anagen cycle) and ten percent of hair rests for 100 days (telogen cycle). When donor grafts are dissected and placed in the recipient site, the newly grafted follicles go into the resting cyc...
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