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Respected sir,

I am XX from India, age 23 male. My problems are that I don’t have complete baldness problem. like before my hair growth was very good nice curly hair thick hair and I don’t have genetic hair baldness because my father age is 51 he has got normal hair .my problems is that the growth, thickness, hair fall and like more hair I hope u understand  this thing r missing . One more reason is that I have tension .well I don’t used more shampoo or any chemical but some time I used hair gel and that also I stop .so please tell what the cure or any vitamins  please help me out .

A:

Hi there,

Age 23 is the time that most people with male pattern hair loss start seeing some degrees of baldness. You did also mention that your father is not bald. Although it could be related to men’s hair loss in its typical form or male patterned alopecia is a genetic condition, many people may not find baldness in their immediate relatives. In other words, the gene expression for hair loss may skip some generations. A small group of men with hair loss may suffer from other types of hair loss such as alopecia areata, cicatricial alopecia or other rare balding conditions.

You need to see a good hair specialist who can examine your hair and come up with an accurate diagnosis for your hair loss condition before you can start on any hair loss medication or treatment. I generally spend around one hour with every new patient to evaluate the hair loss and to come up with a proper treatment plan in our California hair transplant centers. Most shampoos, conditioners, lotions or vitamins that are extensively marketed for hair loss do not really help stop the hair loss or re-grow hair. If you have male patterned baldness, there are some medications that can stop your hair loss. You may as well need a hair transplant to restore the hair that cannot be restored by means of medical treatment.

A Los Angeles Hair Restoration patient asked me today about Kevis products for medical hair loss treatment in men the other day. His father used to use those hair loss products when he was in Europe and He recommended that he can use them as well. I had to do some research on the website of the company to find out what are the ingredients of this presumed hair loss medication.

Kevis products are claimed to be natural and chemical drug-free. They work through the biological compound, hyaluronic acid, which is found in eyes and joints in its highest concentration.

Kevis uses a high-molecular-weight product called HUCP, to address hair loss and follicular mal-nutrition. HUCP is claimed that it directly impacts hair follicles, cuticles, and shafts in a positive way, bringing about stronger, thicker, and healthier hair. HUCP also hydrates and balances the moisture levels in hair and the skin of the scalp.

Kevis hair loss prevention and hair care products gently clean hair and selectively remove residue from the scalp, encouraging follicular health and greater natural hair production.

It is all nice to have a product to help cleaning the scalp and the root of our hair and also to keep the moisture to the hair shaft, but neither dryness nor dirtiness of hair is the cause of hair loss. I could not find a significant research on the effect of any of those ingredients on the health and growth of hair. We at our Los Angeles hair transplant clinics of US Hair Restoration recommend products with solid medical research showing their effectiveness and safety.

Q:
Does your new Irvine facility sell toppik hair fibers? Is it safe to use daily or soon after a hair transplant until the hair grows?

Hope to hear from you soon.

Thank you.

A:
We don’t sell any products in any of the offices of US Hair Restoration, but you can easily buy Toppik online through several websites.

Toppik is made of several inert substances that none of them affect the progress of the hair loss or gain.

If you are planning to have a hair transplant surgery, you need to stop using Toppik for the first four days after your hair transplant when the process of healing of the transplanted grafts is not finished. You can start using it again as early as day 5 after your hair transplant surgery when the healing process of transplanted grafts is considered to be completed.

Have a great weekend.

Toppik hair loss scam, does it really work? The fibers used by Toppik are made of the same material that hair shafts are made of and that is Keratin. The fibers of Toppik bond with hair and it’s nearly impossible with the naked eye to see that there is anything on your hair. It gives the appearance of fullness that you have a natural, thick looking head of hair. This is temporary because it does not grow hair but conceals it in the short term for a special meeting, date or party. Toppik is natural and safe and can eliminate the appearance of balding or thinning in only a certain group of patients.

The people who can get the most of Toppik are the ones who have hair with some degrees of miniaturization or thinning. If the hair is totally gone like in higher classes of baldness, Toppik does not help. Toppik needs some hair to be bond with to create the appearance of fullness.

A scam is only realistic if you want to believe in it. We all know that hair loss is a bitter truth that affects many men. Men do anything to improve their appearance and hid their baldness. There are many methods that can help someone with hair loss to improve the appearance of his hair including hair transplant surgery and medical treatment for hair loss. Cosmetics like Toppik offer another way to deal with the hair loss problem.

Toppik for hair loss is a scam or not, does not really matter. The fact is that you should do whatever makes you feel better about yourself. Hair restoration is a proven treatment for psycho-social adverse effects of baldness. If you can use any other method such as Toppik to look better and feel better, why not trying it?

Question:

Dr. Mohebi,
Is The ProCede an alternative to hair transplant surgery?

Answer:
ProCede TM is a cosmetic hair product that can thicken your hair shafts and increase the appearance of fuller hair. ProCede is classified under hair volumizers, which increases the volume of hair shafts. ProCede does not help re-growing hair and does not have any effect on the length or diameter of actual hair. There is no medicine such as minoxidil or finasteride involved in the formulation of this product so it does not need FDA approval.

There are many claims on Procede removing toxins from skin, but this has not been proven with scientific evidence. There are reports of severe allergic reaction to ProCede and this is why the skin patch test is recommended for patients who use this product. It is recommended to repeat ProCede every 90 day to sustain its effect on thinning hair.

Above information was mostly based on what I found online on ProCede. Searching through medical literature, I could not find any published articles, nor did I see any supporting medical documents on the ProCede website. I would wait to see more documentation on the mechanism and safety of this product before recommending it to my hair loss patients.