Category: Hair Cycle

If you have opted to undergo a hair transplant procedure, you may be wondering when you will be able to see the results. Read on to learn more about the hair follicle transplant process, as well as when you expect to see new hair growth.  The Hair Follicle Transplant Process  Hair restoration is a complex […]

FUE Hair Transplant Timeline – This 40-year-old male patient had been affected by alopecia. Dr. Gabel recommended an FUE transplant procedure to restore the patient’s frontal hairline. During this procedure, Dr. Gabel transplanted 2,181 hair follicles into the frontal hairline in one session. The following photographs were taken during the first 10 days including just […]

Recently this 71-year-old man had two hair transplants at the Gabel Center and stopped into the office for a follow-up appointment. Before his surgeries, he had been concerned with his significantly thinning hair and had searched throughout the Pacific Northwest, before finding Dr. Gabel and the Gabel Hair Restoration Center. After meeting with Dr. Gabel […]

At the Gabel Center, we strive to accommodate and assess every hair loss patient in a holistic and customized manner. For patients with extensive baldness that exceeds their donor area’s ability to safely provide grafts for transplantation, alternative sources of donor hair can be found and evaluated throughout the body. Harvesting body hair allows surgeons […]

Dr. Steven Gabel offers his patients many treatment options for hair restoration and strives to stay on the cutting edge of modern medicine. Finasteride is an important medication to learn about. One of the most common medications for treating male pattern baldness is the use of the medication finasteride, known better by the brand names […]

The hair follicle is an organ of the body, and as simple as it looks, is quite complex.  The body at birth has about 5 million hairs.  The adult scalp has on average 100,000 to 125,000 hairs. There are several types of hairs throughout the body including terminal hairs and vellus hairs. This will be […]

Day 0:  Day of hair transplant. Days 1 – 5:  The first 2 weeks following a hair transplant are the most critical.  Dr. Gabel provides his patients with detailed instruction booklets on exactly how to care for the newly transplanted grafts.  During the first 5 days, patients will experience swelling of the forehead and at […]

During the hair cycle, it is normal for adult men and women to shed about 50 -100 hairs a day.  If one is shedding significantly more hair then that in a single day, you may want to consult your physician and find if there is a cause. The reason we shed The main reason for […]