Successful treatment found for Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia (photo)

This disease, more common in women than men, is responsible for considerable hair loss in women. Too often, hair transplant surgeons who don’t understand the diagnosis will transplant such patients and when the do, the transplant always fails. An experienced hair transplant surgeon is critical because he/she detects this disease which can be devastating. It is easy to see why surgeons get excited about transplanting this type of patient (see photo of female below) but careful examination would show that this patient is missing vellus hairs and has skin abnormalities that are not reflective of genetic balding. This article shows a treatment which has proven successful in 78% of patients:

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