More than 80 percent of men and nearly 50 percent of women experience significant hair loss in their lifetime. Dr. Ratushny understands that the treatment of hair loss is not a one-size-fits-all process. Dr. Ratushny likes to perform a personalized evaluation of each of his patient's hair loss and compose a tailored treatment plan based [...]
One important decision you will make when planning a hair transplant procedure is whether to get a strip excision (AKA follicular unit transplantation/FUT) or follicular unit excision (FUE). While some hair transplant surgeons only have the technical capacity to offer an FUE, Dr. Ratushny feels that it is important to offer both procedures to his [...]
Androgenetic alopecia (i.e. patterned hair loss) is the most common form of hair loss in both men and women. Dr. Ratushny was included as an expert in the field of hair loss to share his approach to manage this condition in the December, 2020 issue of The Dermatologist. See link for full article or view [...]
Getting a hair transplant involves, on the basic level, moving hair follicles from the donor zone at the back of your head to the recipient area on your hairline or top of your head. While we typically focus on the recipient area where the hair follicles are being placed, it is important to consider the [...]
An observation turned into a clinical hypothesis when researchers noted that there was a high frequency of male pattern hair loss among patients admitted for COVID-19. 71% of men admitted for COVID-19 in two Spanish hospitals were observed to have clinically significant androgenetic alopecia (AGA) as determined by the Hamilton-Norwood Scale of AGA. A limitation [...]
Telogen effluvium (TE) is a transient type of hair loss that can occur after significant physical or emotional stress. There is reason to suspect that patients who have either contracted and recovered from COVID-19 or had severe emotional stress due to the pandemic may be at risk of developing TE in the months and years [...]
According to Harvard researchers, the answer is YES! Does stress really turn your hair gray/white? "Marie Antoinette Syndrome" is a folk term for the rapid transition of hair color to white. This term got its origin from a legend that the fabled French Queen's hair turned white the night before she faced the guillotine. Harvard [...]
Currently, there are a few non-surgical injectable options for the treatment of hair loss. One option is platelet rich plasma (PRP) which entails drawing up a patient's blood and isolating the platelet rich plasma component which is then re-injected into the patient's scalp. PRP is enriched for growth factors which can stimulate hair follicle growth. [...]
According to a recently published research study in the journal ACS Nano, researchers have devised a technology that harnesses your body's natural movements and channels them into an electric stimulation device that may grow human hair. The wearable electronic stimulation device gets charged with the body's natural motions that occur with daily activity This device [...]
There are two tried and true methods for performing hair restoration surgery, the strip excision/FUT (follicular unit transplantation) and FUE (AKA the follicular unit extraction/excision). The differences in these two procedures involves how the donor hair is harvested from the back of the head. In strip excision, a strip of hair is removed from the [...]
