Hair Loss – Male Pattern Baldness

Medical Hair Transplant and Aesthetics
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Medical Hair Transplant and Aesthetics, a San Francisco-based hair loss clinic, is owned by Dr. John Diep, a leader in hair restoration medicine. In fact, Medical Hair Transplant and Aesthetics patients can access modern, effective solutions to common problems like male pattern baldness.

Male pattern baldness, also known as androgenetic alopecia, the most prevalent cause of hair loss for male patients, arises from two main factors, the DHT hormone and genetics. These two factors cause the follicles where hair grows to shrink. Over time, hair gets finer and finer as fewer follicles produce new hair.

The reason it’s called male pattern baldness is that the hair loss occurs in distinct shapes. For instance, hair loss may start at the hairline, which sweeps backward over the head, creating the distinctive M shape. Ultimately, patients with male pattern baldness may end up with a horseshoe pattern of remaining hair on the head.

Doctors offer a variety treatments to manage male pattern baldness. These include drugs that can abate hair loss and surgical interventions like hair transplantation that restores a natural hairline.

Medical Hair Transplant and Aesthetics | Demonstration FUE Donor Scar

Diep FUE Curve Technique for Curly Hair Transplants

Diep FUE Curve
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Medical Hair Transplant and Aesthetics (MHTA) is a clinic in the San Francisco Bay Area that emphasizes advanced follicular unit extraction (FUE) approaches to hair restoration. The Medical Hair Transplant and Aesthetics team takes pride in helping clients of diverse ethnic backgrounds achieve natural hairlines that last.

In 2010, company founder Dr. John Diep invented the Diep FUE Curve technique (DFC) as a way of addressing the specific issues associated with African American hair roots. It is not only the hair that is curly but the root as well, and this makes harvesting follicles for transplant challenging. In particular, the root can be located in a number of positions other than directly below where the hair leaves the skin.

DFC employs predictive technologies that enable the physician to harvest the root at the specific curve angle that will leave it healthy and intact enough to transplant. As the follicles are extracted, Dr. Diep then employs eight distinct rules in recreating a hairline for patients that is dense and natural appearing.v