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When 42-year old Ryan Graff, a family man and sales director from Tucson, Arizona, finally made the decision and opted for hair transplant surgery he didn’t really know what he was getting himself into.  Luckily, it was the best decision he ever made in his life, thanks in part to his board-certified hair transplant surgeon, his own patience, his family and the science behind the surgery. Also, great big thanks to Care Credit, which allowed him the funds to pay for his hair transplant surgery.Even so, there were things he understood better on the other side of the surgery than he did before he went in.  His hair transplant surgeon explained beforehand that hair transplant surgery is the only permanent solution for repairing his hair loss and that with today’s technology and artistry on the part of the physician, his bald spot and receding portions around his hairline would look (and be!) totally natural again.His doctor explained that a hair transplant surgery was the surgical procedure, based on science, of transplanting hair from where it is growing healthy to a place where it is not growing and that it continues to grow normally where transplanted.  The surgeon further explained that he would be using a hair transplant surgery method called Follicular Unit Extraction where self-contained follicle units with roots are removed and replaced to the new area, as opposed to a strip method, which works better for larger areas. After he had the surgery, Ryan found out that there’s almost no downside to hair transplant surgery (unless you’re worried about the cost). It really was done in one day and didn’t hurt too much, although he took Advil that night.  And he was able to shampoo right away and the crusting was minimal in the following days. He didn’t even get any infections at all! He did find out, however, that he would never be able to shave his head.To minimize any scars from a hair transplant surgery from ever showing he had to keep his hair at least ¼ to ½ inch long – a number 2 or 3 razor. But that was ok since he wasn’t the ‘shave-your-head’ type of guy anyway.  He was actually psyched when he started to see the new hairs growing in around the third month, on the quick end of the scale. Most hair transplant patients he spoke with and hair transplant surgeons all said you had to wait at least 3-6 months and that the final result wouldn’t be effective until 12 months, but Ryan’s grew in even faster than that. One strange thing was that his new hair transplant grew in different, wiry in texture at first, which freaked him out. But a call to his hair transplant surgeon quelled his fears and explained that it will straighten out and soften up as the follicle’s ability to form a normal cuticle readjusts. He was a little worried to find out that even if you have one hair transplant surgery, that over time, if you keep balding more, then you might want another hair transplant to fill in new bald spots. He might eventually run out of donor hair and then have to live with baldness somewhere even though his hairline and other newly transplanted hair would still be there. He knew Male Pattern Baldness was progressive, he just hadn’t thought that through, and he still was pretty young and was not quite sure how his hair loss would progress.He was pretty bummed that there is no existing, exact technology for predicting the future of your balding. Even when examining family history and the current balding pattern, no one can be 100% sure. So, hair transplant surgery can be repeated after a year as the scalp stretches, as long as your surgeon says you have healthy hair for a hair transplant surgery Donor site.  Ryan’s hair transplant surgeon also prescribed the FDA-approved drug therapy of Propecia and topical Rogaine to minimize his future hair loss and help new re-growth be as healthy as possible.  With everything he knew now, would Ryan still have chosen a hair transplant? You know it!

Mimi, a 39-year-old single mother from Miami, Florida, wore a nonsurgical hair replacement of some type or another every day since she was a teenager.  She had a selection of wigs and clip-in hair extensions, custom made just for her particular hair type, face shape and coloring at the hair replacement studio she jointly owned and operated.Mimi suffered from Alopecia Areata since she was a little girl and swore when she grew up she was going to help people suffering from hair loss by learning how to create hair replacements that were every bit as natural and beautiful as the real hair they lost. She began to wonder if the intense staring, the rude comments and hair loss â??discriminationâ? she had been feeling most of her life was all in her head.  Her clients reported similar stories and behavior. Just because she felt so normal, so much prettier with her hair replacement on, did that mean that the whole world was kinder and treated her better when she wasnâ??t bald?She decided to find out with a little experiment.  One day she took off her wig and decided to go through her normal day that way just to see what happened.  Her wig was actually a removable hair system, because after all, her family knew of her Alopecia Areata and so she could go without her hair replacement at home. Without her wig she had several large missing patches of hair and the rest of her hair was short and fuzzy. It was not at all attractive in her eyes. But Mimi didnâ??t care because the experiment was to find out if hair replacement made a difference in the eyes of other people. She put on her makeup and her smile, which was beautiful, wig or no wig, and she went about her day of errands and shopping.  It was almost as if Mimi forgot all about her hair â?¦ actually she did forget. And she walked into the first store having forgot that she was not wearing her hair system.But soon she was reminded. From the moment she went in the store people either looked away from her quickly and avoided her or averted their glaze purposely. Then she remembered that she didnâ??t have her hair replacement on. Mimi needed assistance in finding something in one store and nobody came to ask her if she needed help. When she finally went to seek out the help, the sales associate pretended not to stare at her fuzzy, patchy head all the while staring at it! By the time she left the first store she was already convinced that she needed her hair system to feel accepted in public and that no matter what anybody said, all the confidence and smiling in the world doesnâ??t change the attitude of the general public. She could barely drag herself through the rest of her errands feeling this way and couldnâ??t wait to get home.  Worrying about how you look sure can take its toll and people really make it difficult if you stand out in any way. She was grateful for her family and her own collection of hair systems.The next day, determined to complete her experiment, she worked on her hair system at her hair replacement studio and fitted in on just right. Her custom system was really beautifully made from 100% virgin human hair, cut and styled just perfectly.  But it was the way it made her feel beautiful that brought out that smile of hers again. She knew the hair system made all the difference but off she went anyway to prove it at that same store from the day before where the sales associates had ignored her. Maybe the sales associate was just bad at her job? She had to know for sure. When she walked in the store and into the aisle that associate was working, she walked up to her, smiled, flipped her hair and asked for the same product. The sales associate turned around look her straight in the eye, nodded, smiled and began to lead her to what she was looking for. A totally different experience!  In fact, that sales associate never even recognized Mimi in her hair. Point proven! She was grateful for the confidence her hair system gave her and would recommend a hair replacement to anyone who was suffering bald discrimination, real or imaginary.

What did men do about their hair loss before hair transplant surgery?  For centuries, men have been in search of a solution to their hair loss problems. Wigs, toupees, and more recently the dreaded hair plugs have graced men’s heads with unfortunate results.  Modern technology has made tremendous breakthroughs regarding hair loss, in the last decade or so, from topical solutions (like Rogaine or Propecia) that halt hair loss to the more permanent solution of hair transplant surgery. But for those who are sick of daily medication, and do not want to wear a hair system, hair transplant surgery maybe the answer they’ve been hoping for.At the very mention of hair transplant surgery, most people immediately think of unnatural-looking surgery of the past where plugs of hair were inserted into the scalp, making it look, well, polka-dotted and awful. It was a terrible solution primarily because the groupings of 15-25 hairs doctors implanted in the scalp did not mimic what occurs naturally on the scalp. Naturally, hair grows in groupings of 2-4 strands, no more. And there is a direction in which these strands of hair grow that determines how the hair falls once it grows out. One new hair transplant technique takes that into consideration. When surgeons developed new methods using micro-tools, they were finally able to harvest hair follicles in small enough groupings to make what is called follicular hair transplant surgery look natural.According to the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS), understanding what made our hair fall out turned the tide in follicular hair transplant surgery. Doctors discovered that hair taken from the back of the head tended to be immune to the same process of weakening and falling out that the hair on the top of head was.So how does follicular hair transplant surgery work? Robert Collins can tell you. The forty-year-old has gone through the process. “I was skeptical at first, worried it might look fake or unnatural,” Robert said. “But I asked to see the hair transplant surgery photos my surgeon had and I felt more confident. Also, a friend of mine who suffered from hair loss had done the procedure the year before and I wanted my hair to look as good as his.”Robert made an appointment with a surgeon who specialized in follicular hair transplant surgery and did the preliminary work-up which included studying his scalp to make sure he had enough hair in his donor hair area to donate.  On the day of the surgery, with light sedation and topical anesthesia, the hair transplant surgeon incised an eliptical-shaped piece of scalp from the back of Robert’s head–the place where the hair follicles are not generally subject to falling out permanently. While he was closing that wound (which would be completely covered by his hair) technicians got busy separating small sections of skin and hair. With 1-4 vellus hairs in each group carefully sectioned, along with oil glands, a band of collagen and a small muscle, each section had all the requirements to regrow in the scalp. Then, the surgeon delicately replaced these follicular hair transplant sections, paying close attention to the direction the hairs were growing.  When he’d finished the hair transplant surgeon dressed his scalp with a bandage that allowed for breathe-ability. In the ten days it took for his scalp to heal, all of the external hairs the hair transplant surgeon had positioned in Robert’s scalp fell out due to the stress of the surgery. That was perfectly normal and did not affect the follicular roots settling into place there. Robert was able to go back to his normal life again, looking just as he had before. But within three months, hair began to sprout in the places where the surgeon had placed them during the hair transplant surgery. After a year, he had a full head of hair again. This all happened so gradually that no one really noticed the change, except that Robert had hair now. And this hair would not fall out as his old hair had.“I don’t regret doing the hair transplant surgery it for a minute,” Robert says now. “Not only do I look like myself again, I feel like myself. I’ve got my confidence back.”Hair transplant surgery remains at the top end financially of hair loss solutions. It is not cheap. But considering the long term necessity of using hair systems that need maintenance, or topical hair therapy medications that can never be stopped once started, or the even more unpleasant prospect of being bald for the rest of one’s life, the cost of hair transplant surgery is not so bad. Most patients are able to spread the cost of the surgery into affordable payments. But most importantly, find a surgeon who is an expert in hair transplant surgery with a great reputation to help restore your hair and your confidence.

HairLoss.com, the world’s most comprehensive social network community dedicated to “all things hair loss” has been launched.  The latest generation of HairLoss.com will live up to its promise of introducing a novel and groundbreaking website to the hair loss industry. HairLoss.com is a complete social network service, providing an online community of people who share a common interest in hair loss issues, from solving hair loss to celebrating hair loss and all things in between, while providing users with a variety of ways to interact and share facts, opinions and advice.”The premise of the website is simple enough,” states Michael Garcia, spokesman for the consortium of hair loss industry leaders who have founded the current incarnation of HairLoss.com.  “Hair loss can be solved or celebrated, treated or embraced depending on how you feel about it.  Whichever posture you adopt, you will find all the tools necessary here to prevent, solve or celebrate hair loss in every imaginable context.”The website, which launched on July 2, utilizes state-of-the-art technology and graphics developed by Bright Bulb Solutions in Los Angeles and features all-new original content developed specifically for this hair loss project including sections dedicated to hair loss conditions, hair loss solutions, a comprehensive professional providers directory, along with news and lifestyle channels.”Hair loss looms so large in our lives when it happens to us,” said Garcia.  “Our Lifestyle channel shows our community how to perfect other parts of our lives, even if we may never have perfect hair again.  Our Entertainment channel provides a little respite, a little fun while members seek out solutions to their individual condition.”The lifestyle channel features articles and advice on health & fitness, fashion & beauty, nutrition, entertainment, business and travel, as well as an advice column for community members to get advice from a “relationship coach” in order to assure that hair loss – and the complexities surrounding it – don’t overly complicate our personal lives.Full membership in the hair loss community is free and allows the member to participate and interact with others in the community by way of forums, newsgroups, comments, RSS feeds, friends and more.  The amount of unbiased information about hair loss solutions is presented to speak to those across the broad spectrum of hair loss conditions.  Men, women and children with temporary and permanent conditions such as Alopecia areata or hair loss caused by Cancer treatments will find information especially for them.   ”One thing we all understand is that hair loss is more complicated than we knew before.”  There is no one-size-fits-all solution.  Many of the existing hair loss websites speak above the typical person seeking solutions or contain thinly veiled sales pitches, Garcia said.  “We’ve reduced the rhetoric of solving hair loss to its simplest terms.  Those using the Internet to perform their due diligence are going to appreciate this approach.”Also launching with the website will be HairLoss.com’s “Hair for Children” program that will provide children who suffer from hair loss – and who demonstrate financial need – a customized hair loss solution.  A video contest that challenges filmmakers to craft videos raising public awareness about the many sensitive issues surrounding hair loss has also been announced with the launch.As presented, HairLoss.com represents an online community in the deepest sense.   This website has its experts and has a stance, but its clear that members will be the lifeblood. The success of the online community will rely completely on members sharing their most creative and thoughtful ideas, experiences and insights with the community and to engage the experts so that everyone in the community benefits.

Introducing White Cliffs Hair Studio, the best thing to come from England since â?¦ the Beatles?His face was the picture of earnestness and sincerity as we spoke in the parking lot of the nondescript studio located just outside of Indianapolis.  â??This company has given me back my life.  It has delivered me from years of feeling hopeless.â?The young man Iâ??m speaking to is Jeremy, a 22-year-old graduate student at the University of Indiana and the company heâ??s speaking of isnâ??t a corporate headhunter or a shrink or an employer.  Heâ??s speaking of an Indianapolis hair replacement studio that, according to Jeremy, â??has given me back the confidence to enjoy my life without looking ten years older than I am.â?Jeremy is a handsome man with a baby face and a serious manner.  He has already explained that heâ??s â??baldâ? but upon close inspection, there is no proof whatsoever that he has lost one single strand of hair from his head.  The sun is shining and I can see the color and natural highlights as well as the density and what appears to be hair growing â?? emerging â?? from his scalp.â??Touch it,â? challenges Jeremy.  â??Run your fingers through my hair.â?Iâ??m shy to do this in a parking lot, but I do.  I explore his head with my fingertips searching for some sign that this kid is putting me on.  I feel no creases or bumps aside from the normal features of his scalp and head.  I examine his hairline.  I see hairs growing everywhere.  I look closer.â??All of the hair on top isnâ??t mine,â? he says.   â??The hair on the sides and back is mine.â?Â  Then the talk turns serious.  â??When I began losing my hair at age 17, I wanted to die.  I didnâ??t believe I would ever find anyone to love me and I hid in a hat for five years before I found White Cliffs on the Internet.  They had just opened here in Indianapolis.  They are a British company but now theyâ??re here.  To me, they are the coolest thing to come from England since the Beatles.â?Jeremy tells me he is performing a poetry reading on campus this very night, an â??open micâ? affair.  He tells me that his restored hair allows him to focus because he isnâ??t worried about what other people are thinking.  â??This is the best money Iâ??ll ever spend,â? he says before driving off.Inside Iâ??m now visiting with Paul Sandor, the owner and operator of White Cliffsâ?? Indianapolis hair replacement studio.  Weâ??re looking through Jeremyâ??s file and Iâ??m examining the photos Paul took of Jeremy when he first came in for a consultation.â??Can you believe itâ??s the same person?â? Sandor asks.  â??Look at that hair.â?I reply in the negative but I hadnâ??t even focused on the differences of the hair.  Iâ??m looking at the eyes, the face.  Iâ??m trying to reconcile the sad, hopeless and lifeless face of the young man in the photos to the handsome, colorful, intense and full-of-life face of the person I was just speaking to in the parking lot 30 minutes before.Then I allow myself to take in the entire photo and I see a young, premature balding man with a scant amount of hair on the top and a recession pattern that goes back clear to the crown.â??Thatâ??s quite a transformation,â? I finally say to Sandor, who is standing back smiling broadly.â??Thatâ??s what we do here,â? he replies, still beaming.  â??We change lives for the better.â?â??What does a â??transformationâ?? like this cost?â? I asked, bracing myself.He directed me to again look at the photos and to reflect on Jeremyâ??s current look and outlook.  I did.  â??So the question, then, isnâ??t â??what is the costâ??â? he said, â??as much as it is â??what is the valueâ?? of the transformation.â?I wanted to press him for a straight answer but instead I heard myself saying, â??Well, if I take what Jeremy told me at face value, and I examine these photos and add that to what I understand about human nature, I might conclude that the value is priceless.â?â??Exactly,â? he said, patting my shoulder with as much enthusiasm as if I had just recited the winning question on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.  â??Now you understand what White Cliffs is all aboutâ?.White Cliffs Hair Studio originated in London in 2003 and began as a single studio called Hair Loss Centre.  The premise of the founding partners was to found a company dedicated to hair loss sufferers by hair loss sufferers.According to the company profile on their website, the two principals were both hair loss sufferers who had tried every hair loss treatment method under the sun including laser treatments, topical remedies, surgery and nonsurgical treatment methods.After years of research and many, many thousands of dollars later, they had realized that they had become experts in their own right.  Determined to save hair loss sufferers both time and money, the partners â?? Andrew and Warren â?? decided to open Hair Loss Center in the elegant Mayfair section of London.  Think Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.From those humble beginnings sprouted White Cliffs Hair Studio, now known Internationally with studios throughout the United Kingdom including Scotland and Ireland.   Studios in India, Canada, Australia soon opened, followed by three studios in the United States in Cleveland, Indianapolis and, most recently, in Chicago.    Paul Sandor owns and operates all three US enterprises.What made White Cliffs stand out so quickly was their multi-solution approach to solving hair loss.  â??In the beginning, before I became a White Cliffs studio, I only offered nonsurgical hair replacement,â? said Sandor.  â??Hair loss is more complex than that.  You need more tools than that. Itâ??s like that saying:  If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything like it is a nail.  Now we offer every solution for every type of hair loss condition.â?I was still thinking about Jeremy when Paulâ??s next client, Lerna, walked into the office.  Lerna is a beautiful 42-year-old African American woman who works as a public school teacher in Indianapolis.  She looks and dresses conservatively but said that this wasnâ??t always the case.â??Ever since I was a child, I embraced all the African traditions as far as beading and braiding my hair,â? she said, laughing.  â??All through my teens and twenties, I used harsh chemicals and even harsher braiding techniques.  But I was young and even though everyone warned me to take better care of my hair I didnâ??t listen.â?While in her mid-thirties Lerna was diagnosed with traction Alopecia, a common cause of hair loss due to extended tension exerted on the scalp hair, such as is caused by ponytails and braids.  She was shocked when she cut her hair short one year to find that underneath all of her outer hair, she had lost significant amounts of her hair in patches.â??It was nightmarish,â? she said, â??but little did I know that my nightmare was only beginning.  The road to finding an expert and professional who cares and really understands how to help someone like me is not an easy one.â?Lerna related a four-year quest to restore her natural appearance as well as â??everything else I lost when I lost my hair; the self-esteem and the self-confidence.â?â??I went to six different salons before I found White Cliffs,â? she relates.  â??They all put hair on my head, but it wasnâ??t my hair.  And thatâ??s a big difference.  They all wanted me to shave off my remaining hair in order to give me the density I wanted and they didnâ??t understand why I would want to keep what is there, what is still mine.â?She had spent over $20,000 over six years without getting what she paid for.  Today, her hair looks both natural and stylish.  Unlike Jeremy, her front hairline was her own actual hair.  While the traction Alopecia had caused her hair to recede slightly, it still looked natural for a woman her age.This time I got to see her without her hair prosthetic applied to her head.  â??Patchy hair lossâ? described her hair condition perfectly.  She had a lot of her own hair, with large patches of thinning and missing hair.  Sandor had applied a â??Volumizer hair systemâ? to her head, a thin, weightless mesh base with hair tied to it that perfectly matched her own hair, texture and color.  The base contains openings for her own, natural hair to pull through it, perfectly blending with the tied-on hair, making her bald patches virtually disappear and giving her instant density and an instant smile.â??These people here are very sensitive,â? she said.  â??They care deeply about me.  I feel that.  Like Paul always says, Iâ??m not a client and heâ??s not a businessman.  Weâ??re in a partnership.  Weâ??re equals.  Thatâ??s the sort of relationship I like to be in where nobody has the upper hand.   It feels comfortable.  Sincerity goes a long way with me.â?The White Cliffs of Dover in Britain are a sight to behold.  They are chalky, white cliffs that form an important part of the English coastline and are deeply inscribed with significant national identity, history and meaning.  For thousands of years these cliffs have formed a symbolic guard against enemy and foreign invasion of English ports.To the British, these cliffs represent their national pride and values of strength, fortitude, courage and beauty.White Cliffs Hair Studio claims the same values as their namesake cliffs.  An examination of their website illustrates a study of smooth elegance, style and technology.  Their marketing messages are fine-tuned into short, powerful phrases that cut right to the heart of hair loss.In one banner a young woman is leaning carefree with her head in her hand, along with the message:  She looks great and feels great.  Hair Restoration is life restoration.  The confidences to exceed her limits and to see herself as she is â?¦ beautiful.Another banner portrays a chemo patient posed with a physician and the words:  Maintaining a whole and healthy appearance during your recovery helps you to feel better â?¦ which helps you to heal better.Like a menu at a fine restaurant, they outline their treatment offerings with each treatment accompanied by pages of frequently asked questions, photos, videos and testimonials.  Lightly sprinkled throughout the website are testimonials of British celebrities and accolades from organizations and websites dedicated to hair loss.While they made their name with their nonsurgical hair systems â?? which they manufacture themselves in their own factory â?? all studios now offer laser hair therapy, hair transplant surgery, hair extensions, topical treatments, and special â??Cancer wigsâ? â?? prosthetics â?? for those undergoing Oncology treatments who temporarily lose their hair as a result of the treatments.The partners – in order to fund and provide free hair loss products and services to children with financial need – formed the White Cliffs Foundation.Bill Smith, editor of HairSite.com, one of the world’s largest and longest running websites dedicated to hair loss, recommends White Cliffs and offered this perspective:â??Iâ??ll tell you what is different about White Cliffs.  Theyâ??ve mastered the relationship with the client, which in this industry has become one of the most important factors for success.  Nowadays, the materials that go into a hair system are more or less the same anywhere you go.  In the end, success in the non-surgical hair replacement business depends on two things: artistry and customer service. In other words, the craftsmanship that goes into building an undetectable hair system and how well a salon manages client relationships.  White Cliffs is one of the very few full service salons that has managed to do both extremely well and that explains why they have become so successful.â? Sandor himself reads Smithâ??s quote and nods approvingly.  â??Heâ??s right.  If we assume all things are equal in terms of materials, you still need talent and caring to turn it into something beautiful because only when its done with a high level of skill does it work as far as restoring the hair but also the self-esteem and self-confidence; the restoring of life.â?â??Thatâ??s the White Cliffs way,â? he adds reassuringly.  â??Thatâ??s â??the better wayâ??.â?

Hair loss can be devastating, whether you are male or female, regardless of race or ethnicity. Typical hair loss among men crosses the boundaries of race and culture. However, African American hair poses a particular set of challenges with regard to hair loss. Hair replacement clinics across the country note that while black men seem to suffer the same sort of male pattern baldness and challenges as Caucasian men, African American men and women seem to suffer a higher percentage of problems with hair loss for a variety other, culturally specific reasons. Hair replacement solutions to African American hair loss can be equally complex. Every year, thousands of men and women of African descent struggle to resolve issues that have left them with receding hairlines and patchy balding spots. Many of these causes are due to hairstyling techniques that have become part of the African American culture, such as:• Traction Alopecia – caused by braiding too tightly, long term use of corn-rows or tight pig tails in hair. This causes a constant tug on the root of the hair which eventually not only pulls it out, but can cause scarring on the scalp.• Use of Chemical relaxers that contain lye (the same ingredient used in products like Draino) can actually cause chemical burns on the skin. Even the more natural relaxers use chemicals harsh enough to cause a burn. • Use of hot combs or irons on the hair too close to the scalp, causing burns and scarring.• Bleach–again, a harsh chemical not intended to come in contact with the delicate skin of the scalp. What many people don’t realize is that all of these procedures can, if done improperly, cause permanent hair loss due to scarring of the scalp. Once hair follicles are scarred, there is no resurrecting them. That hair is gone for good. Hair regrowing products like Propecia and Minoxidil will not regrow hair here. Hair replacement experts understand the emotional toll this kind of loss can take on somebody suffering from hair loss. Not only does hair loss cause embarrassment, the self-esteem can take a nose dive as well. Janelle, a twenty-four year old African American woman, noticed that her hair had begun to recede around her hairline. She had worn pig tails as a child and as an adult, had begun chemically relaxing her hair. To save money, she decided to do it at home. The chemicals burned her scalp. Alarmed, Janelle discovered several bald patches the size of a half dollar on her crown. She saw her doctor and learned that Traction Alopecia was responsible for her hair loss around her hairline, and chemical burns were responsible for the now permanent hair loss on her crown. He sent her to a hair replacement specialist. Janelle was dealing with three problems: Bald patches on the scalp and a receding hairline; but more importantly, her biggest problem was the toll the hair loss took on her self-esteem and emotional well-being. She considered surgical hair replacement, but this is a complex issue when it comes to black hair. Why?• The cost is prohibitively high. And quite often, if simply doesn’t work. Hair does not regrow in the density required.• The formation of keloid tissue. Keloid scarring is a condition to which black skin is often prone. While skin on the scalp rarely forms keloid scar tissue, the skin on the forehead and face often will. So if a receding hairline is the issue, often surgical transplantation is not an option on black skin.• Grafting is tricky – Black hair is curly not only above the skin but below, at the root as well. So the grafting of individual hairs is complex and often impossible. In the end, she found an expert who specialized in high end hair replacement systems to restore her hair to it original state. Using breathable lace mesh and hand tied hairs, the hair replacement specialist matched Janelle’s hair with real hair, then filled in the missing spots and her hairline with several hair systems to extend her hairline. The new hair blended in flawlessly with Janelle’s own hair. This hair system was not cheap either. A high end hair system that is virtually undetectable costs somewhere around $2500. But let’s face it, nothing good is ever cheap. Nor was the hair system without maintenance. She had to adjust the color monthly and occasionally have new hair tied to replace hair that routinely shed from the hair system. But in the end, she couldn’t be happier with her full head of hair. Restoring her hair has, made her less self-conscious and given her back her confidence. It’s hard to put a price tag on that. Every year, hair replacement experts help thousands of people just like Janelle reclaim their lives with the help of hair replacement systems. There are other hair replacement options available to those with spotty hair loss like Janelle. Hair extensions made with clips are temporary or removable hair systems that don’t require glue to be fixed to the scalp. These are also made with high quality human hair in China and can blend invisibly with your own hair. If you have experienced hair loss and are looking for options, study hair replacement systems on the internet. Look for hair systems that are virtually undetectable, made of human hair, and have local clinics available for custom fitting.