Leading Male Hair Transplant & Restoration

Male hair loss, or male-pattern baldness, can affect men from the onset of puberty and thereafter but may also start later in life, with a prevalence of 80% of men by age of 80 experiencing some level of hair loss.

FAQs About Ethnic Hair Restoration

• What if I only want surgery and don’t want to take medicine for hair loss?

  Dr. Lam believes that only through a thorough an in-depth consultation he can assess your situation and recommend all available treatments for you. He might recommend surgery but also if Dr. Lam does not believe you are a safe candidate for a hair transplant, he will not even offer it to you. Regarding medical treatment, he weighs with you when and which medicines or non-surgical treatments would be the most beneficial to you. Furthermore, he can perform a genomic evaluation to determine which routes would be most effective for you to make sure that he can attain the highest accuracy of dosing for you.
  Medical therapy is advisable to slow down hair loss and help thicken thinning hairs. Sometimes, he believes you only need medical therapy. Sometimes medical therapy and surgery are an ideal combination, which is most of the time. In some older individuals with more stable hair loss, he may only offer surgery as the method to solve your hair loss issues. A detailed consultation with Dr. Lam, which is where every journey begins at our clinic, can help you navigate the pros, cons, limitations, and timing of medical therapy with or without surgery.

• I’ve heard that a hair transplant procedure is painless. Is that true?

  Unfortunately, the routine process is typically to use local anesthesia without any form of sedation, and the anesthesia is painful to undergo. To minimize the experience of pain, most clinics give oral sedation, which Dr. Lam believes is insufficient. By contrast, Dr. Lam uses a gentle conscious sedation where you do not feel pain, anxiety, needles, and his anesthesia lasts all day so he rarely, if ever, needs to renumb the area. After the surgery, you would most likely have no pain but if you should experience any lingering discomfort, Dr. Lam can use his patent-pending treatment to instantly remove the pain.

• I’ve heard FUE transplants are scarless.

  This is a marketing lie on the Internet. No hair transplant of any kind is truly scarless. Depending on the surgical technique, your healing process and your hairstyling, scars could be more or less visible. Dr. Lam is always optimizing the surgical technique to improve your healing and minimize any scarring. However, if you should completely shave your head, there may be visibility of these harvest sites. This is something that you should know before you schedule a hair transplant with Dr. Lam.

• Is hair transplant result permanent?

  Yes and no. The principle known as “donor dominance” means that the hairs in the back of the head should not be lost when transplanted. However, you can continue to lose surrounding hairs around the transplant over time. In addition, not the entire back of the head is considered as a safe donor area. That is why selecting a safe candidate for transplantation and always counseling the possible need for a second or additional procedures is important during the consultation process.

• What should I expect during the recovery?

  The recovery should be near pain free if not entirely painless due to Dr. Lam being very meticulous in protecting the nerves during a procedure. However, if there is any lingering discomfort, he can instantly relieve it with his patent-pending method. Further, there is no need for bandages and you should have minimal to no swelling. Donor and recipient areas will have tiny scabs that could be easily covered by existing hairs or a hat, which would be necessary for only the week following the procedure. After a week, in most cases, your treated areas should not have visible signs of anything being done. You can shower after 24 hours following the procedure and you can resume exercise within a week. You can fly back home or travel within 24 hours too.

  

• Does Dr. Lam perform PRP?

  Yes and no. He uses PRP (platelet-rich plasma) along with liposomal ATP, as part of his surgical protocol of regenerative medicine to optimize transplanted hair survival and growth. However, he no longer believes in office-based, standalone PRP since it is painful to administer while awake and not that effective for regrowing hair. Instead, he performs hair stem, which is a plant-based, high-volume growth factor treatment using advanced instrumentation, no needles, and no pain. Nevertheless, he only reserves this treatment to the patient who would benefit from it.

• Does Dr. Lam perform facial hair transplants?

  Yes, Dr. Lam is very advanced in his technique performing site-specific transplants like beard-to-beard FUE hair transplants, for which he is famous. For more information on this service, visit his facial hair transplant page.

• Does Dr. Lam perform eyebrow hair transplants in men?

  es, he does. However, one thing you need to know is that you will need to trim your eyebrow hairs once or twice weekly since they will grow at the rate of normal scalp hair. For before and afters of his eyebrow work on men, visit his eyebrow gallery.

• What if I have had a bad hair transplant, can Dr. Lam fix it?

  In most cases, Dr. Lam can help you improve your situation but not always. It has a lot to do with your donor capacity and the severity of your problem. His work looks natural not only from a distance but even close up.