- Sara Wasserbauer MD

Dutasteride Mesotherapy – a new way to use an old drug for regrowing hair?

Medical Therapy for hair loss in men and women has been an exciting development. Unfortunately, it is challenging for laymen and even professionals to sometimes differentiate between effective and ineffective treatments. There are often inconsistent responses from patients and no scientific studies. Mesotherapy is a treatment that involves injecting therapeutic substances into the face or…

Can I Wear My Hair Short After Hair Transplant Surgery?

For years, hair transplant surgery, when performed correctly, is undetectable from the patient’s original hair. Of course, it is your own growing hair taken from the back and transplanted to the bald or thinning areas in front or top of the scalp. However, due to the surgical technique of harvesting hair-bearing tissue from the back…

Dr. Wasserbauer discusses Topical vs. Oral Hair Loss Medications on The Hair Doctors Podcast

Topical vs. Oral Hair Loss Medications | What Really Works for Hair Growth? Topical vs. oral hair loss medications take center stage in this episode of The Hair Doctors Podcast, as Dr. Asi Peretz interviews Dr. Sara Wasserbauer. Together, they unpack the pros and cons of finasteride, dutasteride, and minoxidil in both forms, explain why…

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”…

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…