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METRO Source LA magazine is one of the largest and fastest growing magazines. They bring the hottest news in fashion, home design, travel, music and more in a great bi-monthly publication. This month’s publication focuses on Pride events in the hottest and most talked about cities in California: Long Beach, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. We are fortunate to be a part of this publication especially since we have been featured as this month’s METRO Hot Shops.

California US Hair Restoration offices, located in Encino in San Fernando Valley, Beverly Hills and Orange County and led by medical director Dr. Parsa Mohebi, uses modern techniques and provides top-notch client services to anyone looking to get treatment for hair loss or to correct prior hair procedures. Clients walk away with the most natural look. “The worst scenario is if someone were to compliment you on your hair transplant,” Dr. Mohebi says. “They should absolutely not be able to tell.”

US Hair Restoration takes pride in providing personalized hair loss treatment and educating our patients and answering all their hair loss questions. “Our facilities accommodate almost every personal need of every patient we see and our pricing is as competitive as it gets in today’s market.”

“We meet with each client from beginning to end, and follow up with them regularly,”

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Q:

Dear Dr. Mohebi,

Hello, I am really interested in doing hair transplant by you, as my friends in California highly recommended you. I wonder if you can please help me with this questions:

1. Which method would you recommend, FUT or FIT?
2. I have had Alopecia areata in the past in back part of my head. It happened several times, last time 3 years ago. I wonder how it will affect my chance for doing hair transplant. I really appreciate if you can please answer me in details.

Thank you so much for your attention and time.

Sincerely,
S T

A:

Thanks for you interest in our hair restoration services.  I will answer your questions in the order they were received:

1. Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) is the gold standard method in doing hair restoration. FUT is done in two methods 1. strip technique and 2. Follicular unit extraction (FUE, also called FIT).  It has to do with your goals in hair restoration and you can read more about advantages and disadvantages of FUE in my hair restoration blog.  Planning on doing one vs. the other needs to be discussed with the patient during the initial consultation.
2. Alopecia areata (AA) is an autoimmune disorder and usually a reversible condition in which a patient loses hair in a patchy fashion.  It affects transplanted hair the same as normal hair.  I generally make sure that patients don’t have active AA before proceeding with hair transplant.  A physical examination is extremely important in differentiating between male patterned baldness and diffuse alopecia areata (a rare type of alopecia areata).  In undiagnosed cases of alopecia areata, if a patient gets a transplant in the balding area that hair is lost due to AA, there is a risk that patient will lose the transplanted hair with the same mechanism.

Los Angeles is known as the Mecca of cosmetic surgery.  Hair restoration is not an exception to this rule and the demand for high quality hair transplant surgeries attracted the best hair transplant surgeons to Los Angeles and Beverly Hills in particular.

We launched the first branch of the US Hair Restoration in Encino, Los Angeles, California. Its central location makes it accessible from many different areas including Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, downtown LA, Glendale, and all of San Fernando Valley. I did not believe that you should be in Beverly Hills to be able to provide high quality cosmetic surgeries and hair transplants until a few months after starting the first branch of US Hair Restoration. The volume of inquiries from Beverly Hills patients proved my theory wrong and we had to start our Hair Restoration Beverly Hills hair transplant office in the heart of Beverly Hills just a few months after establishing our Encino Hair restoration clinic in the San Fernando Valley.

Are all Beverly Hills hair transplant surgeons capable of providing high quality hair restoration procedures? I guess we all know the answer to this question. In fact, Beverly Hills, like any other high end cities, attracts a mixed crowd of both “good and bad” specialists. Truth is some mediocre hair transplant surgeons only established their hair restoration clinics in Beverly Hills for financial gain from the patients who don’t have time to do their homework before choosing their hair transplant surgeon.

Hair transplant is considered a permanent procedure and, good or bad, the results stay with you for the rest of your life. As much as a good hair transplant can remove years from your face and restore the beauty of it, a bad hair transplant looks unnatural and stands out as unreal. I do a few hair transplant repairs every month for hair transplants that are done with the old techniques that were once considered the standard of care. What’s more disappointing is some of those hair transplants are done only recently and by hair transplant surgeons that could not adapt to the new techniques of hair transplant surgery. I have seen micro-graft hair transplants done only one or two years ago which means there are some doctors out there that resist or are unable to learn the new techniques of hair restoration. Those procedures leave patients with unnatural looking hair and forces them to get another surgery to correct the pluggy appearance.

The good news is that having a bad hair transplant is not the end of the world and if your donor area was not violated badly, your transplanted hair can almost always be repaired with a follicular unit transplant that is artistically done by a good hair transplant surgeon whether in Beverly Hills or elsewhere.