06

Jul

close up of hair

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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06

Jul

Microscope

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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01

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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04

May

Philosophy

NATURALNESS AND UNDETECTABILITYOur 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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03

May

Utilizing Art

UTILIZING ART AND MATHEMATIC PRINCIPLES IN FACIAL FRAMING AND HAIR RESTORATION DESIGNLike 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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02

May

The Eyes

THE FOCAL POINT IN ANY FACIAL SURGERYThis author feels that the focal point in any facial surgery, especially facial framing with hair transplantation, would be “the eyes”, and not the particular portion of the face or hair that was enhanced. Additionally, the author...

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01

May

Leonardo Fibonacci

RELATING TO THE NATURAL HAIR GROWTH PATTERNLeonardo 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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28

Apr

Golden Section

COUNTLESS GOLDEN RATIOSIn 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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27

Apr

painting

Focal Points

BRINGING ATTENTION TO THE EYESAs 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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26

Apr

before and after hair restoration

Facial Framing

BRINGS BALANCE, PERSPECTIVE AND BEAUTYThe 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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