Hair restoration at the cellular level. Is it possible?

March 26, 2015

Some day the best hair transplant, may not come from finding the best hair transplant surgeon. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania may have come a small step closer. But first, a little hair biology is in order: It takes two kinds of cells to make hair grow. Epithelial cells which make up the actual

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The day of your hair loss restoration surgery: What to expect

March 17, 2015

You’ve decided to go through with hair loss restoration surgery. You’ve consulted with the doctor, you’ve determined what you want and talked about what the expected outcome should be. Now that the day of surgery is at hand, what will that day be like? When you arrive at the DiStefano Hair Loss Restoration Center, you

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Hair loss in women: what the best hair transplant doctors know

March 10, 2015

By the time they reach 50 about a third of all women experience hair loss. The percentage rises dramatically as women age. The best hair transplant doctors approach hair loss differently in women than men. Women don’t suffer from the tell tail signs of male pattern baldness, which is largely due to genetic factors. Women

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Distefano Hair Loss Restoration Centers has top hair transplant surgeons.

March 3, 2015

How can, at DiStefano Hair Loss Restoration Centers make the claim that we have the top hair transplant surgeons? First, we are dedicated to hair loss restoration and only hair loss restoration. There has been an increasing tendency for regular doctors and plastic surgeons to buy an expensive machine and then a traveling hair loss

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Financing options for hair loss restoration.

February 24, 2015

With any type of surgical procedure there are usually significant costs involved. This is also true of hair loss restoration surgery and other cosmetic procedures relating to hair. Of course, traditional healthcare insurance doesn’t cover these kinds of cosmetic procedures. However, there are ways to ease the cost burdens of hair loss restoration. At DiStefano

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Is a AMAP mega hair loss restoration session right for you?

February 17, 2015

20 years ago, hair loss restoration was done one follicular unit transplant at a time, and 120 total grafts was considered typical. Now, doctors regularly do AMAP sessions (it means “as many as possible”). How many is that? In these mega sessions, it is routine to do 4,500 follicular unit transplant grafts in eight hours

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Best Hair Transplant: NeoGraft™ versus IGT™

February 10, 2015

At DiStefano Hair Loss Restoration Centers we perform two types of hair transplant techniques, Follicular Unit Transplant, wherein a strip of donor hair is removed from the back of the scalp and divided into individual follicles which are then transplanted to areas needing hair. The other method is follicular unit extraction, wherein follicles are extracted

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Best hair transplant. Worst hair transplant. What to avoid.

February 3, 2015

Micrograft hair transplants—the careful transplanting of hair follicles containing from one to three hair shafts—revolutionized the way hair transplants were performed. In a very short period, men and women who had significant hair loss could have a normal looking head of hair. Today the micrograft procedure is the gold standard and simply the best hair

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Women and hair loss restoration.

December 16, 2014

It’s not news that women don’t experience hair loss in the same way as men. Still, it’s estimated that about 35 percent of women will experience mild to moderate hair loss by the age of 50. Unlike male pattern baldness, which is the major cause of hair loss in men, women experience hair thinning and

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Where do you get the best hair transplant? From the best hair transplant surgeon.

December 2, 2014

Ok…that may seem obvious. But what is less obvious is how to tell who the best hair transplant surgeon is. Medicine being what it is, the best hair transplant surgeon would be board certified by the American Board of Surgery. Or, perhaps the American Board of Plastic Surgery. It might also be the American Board

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