What Make a Physician an Expert in Hair Loss?

Who treats hair loss anyway? Hair loss is not one of those medical conditions for which people go to medical school.  Most patients would not even know who to go to if they had a problem with their hair, and it is often something you will take for granted… until you need it! A quick…

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What is Male Androgenetic Alopecia?

Most balding men never believed that hair loss could happen to them because they “had such thick hair!” in their youth.  Furthermore, denial is a powerful motivator in this particular medical condition, as anyone witnessing a bad comb-over will tell you.  Studies show that the number one reason that men do not treat their hair…

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The Year in Review!

Wow! 2024 Was A Year To Remember! As the year came to a close, we did a quick review of all the events at California Hair Surgeon in 2024 – and it was quite a year!  So much happened, in fact, that we thought we would put some of it into an “End of Year”…

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Why is the FUE hair transplant technique so popular?

Over the past 10 years, the FUE procedure has involved individual follicular bundles of 1-4 hairs excised with a tiny surgical punch, usually less than 1mm in diameter. This technique avoids the typical linear donor scar from FUT strip harvesting, allowing patients to trim their hair very short on the sides and back of the…

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