Category: Hair Restoration

Surgical Restoration for Straight Hair Certain hair characteristics will shape the surgical treatment options best suited for a particular patient. People with straight hair are generally considered better candidates for FUE graft harvesting than curly-haired patients. Harvesting the individual follicles from patients with straight hair is much less labor intensive when compared to patients who […]

Calculating Your Hair Grafts The amount of hair needed to create a cosmetically impactful hair restoration is an art as much as a science. It requires the aesthetically trained and experienced eye of a hair transplantation surgeon to evaluate each patient based on their goals, treatment plan, personal physiology, age, and a variety of other […]

One of the most important factors in evaluating a hair transplant candidate is the availability of their donor supply. If the available donor area has been depleted by past procedures or by physiological factors, it may restrict what a hair restoration surgeon can address in the future. It’s vital that responsible techniques are used to harvest […]

Dr. Gabel strives to seek holistic solutions for hair loss patients and incorporates both surgical and non-surgical treatment plans into his practice. No two patients are ever completely identical and every individual must be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Dr. Gabel is always careful to evaluate the efficacy of treatment options as they arise and […]

Dr. Gabel strives to make sure patients experience optimal healing and minimal scarring after their hair restoration procedures and he has made certain that his methods are conducive to reducing scar tissue and mitigating the cosmetic impact of potential scars. Scarring After A Hair Transplant A scar is a byproduct of your body healing an […]

Day of Hair Transplant I am presenting this patient who had surgery on September 3, 2014, and will display her results every month on this thread to document the progression of growth in hair restoration surgery. This patient had 3439 grafts placed in the frontal hairline and temples to augment and bring down her hairline. […]