Saturday 18 October 2014

Hair Transplants – what can they be used for?



Most people realise that hair transplant surgery is most commonly used to treat males who are suffering from Male Pattern Hair Loss (MPHL) or androgenetic alopecia. However, hair transplants are often used to treat other things like –

- Occasionally Female Pattern Hair Loss (FPHL)

- Brow lift scars

- Hair loss that has resulted from a face lift

- General scalp or facial scarring (traumatic or surgical)

- Eyebrow hair loss (from over plucking, trauma, scarring, loss due to medication, and genetically thin/fine eyebrows)

- Cleft lip scars in adult males

- Patchy beards in males

Dr Rhett Bosnich has been performing hair transplant surgery for 8 years and has performed over 3000 hair transplant procedures. He performs hair transplant surgery for a number of different conditions – not just hair loss. But to do this he has had to undergo specialised training in a variety of techniques so that can apply his hair transplant skills using the correct surgical technique to achieve a good patient outcome.



At Newin Institute, Dr Rhett Bosnich and his technical staff perform manual and motorized FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction), FUG (Follicular Unit Grafting), combined FUG and FUE hair transplants and BHT (Body Hair Transplant). This enable Dr Bosnich to treat many of the less common conditions that require hair transplant surgery.

Tuesday 14 October 2014

Continue 2nd part...PRP for Hair Loss – What many do not know…



4. One Centrifuge is not adequate for all for all circumstances
Anyone that is familiar with PRP knows that a centrifuge is used to spin the tubes of blood at high speed to separate the components. This is what makes it possible to extract only the plasma that contains the platelets.
What many people are not aware of is that a centrifuge system along with its specialized collection tubes may be perfect for facial rejuvenation PRP, however, it is unlikely to the best to use for PRPin the scalp for hair loss. The centrifuge that best suits the person that requires a large volume of blood will be different to the one receives a small test patch. Different centrifuges work in different ways and different intensities. Some separate blood components better; Some leave a portion of red blood cells within the PRP while others remove all of them; Certain centrifuges can efficiently isolate platelet rich plasma from platelet poor plasma and some contain variable spinning speed cycles and others set speed cycles. So the question of which centrifuge is best comes down to the specificity of what the patient is having done.
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PRP clinics often have a one size fits all mentality. They use one basic centrifuge for every single PRP patient. This may be satisfactory for some of their patients, but it will reduce the overall effectiveness of the PRP treatment in others. A Doctor that is specialized in PRP will be able to explain this further.
Newin Institute has 3 Medical Grade Centrifuges and uses the one specific to your exact PRP treatment and thes total amount of extracted blood volume. Every person responds differently to PRP. We want to know that you are achieving 100% of your personal PRP potential. Not 60% or 70%!

5. Anaesthetic and PRP do not mix!
Research has indicated that anaesthetic can reduce the effectiveness of the injected PRP if applied to the same spot. Whether the application is a local anaesthetic (injected) or topical (a cream which is absorbed) the effect is the same. The anaesthetic makes its way into the dermis layer of the skin and results in the platelets not delivering their full effect.
At Newin Institute we use a local anaesthetic but administer it to the scalp in a “ring block” formation.  This means through the forehead, side donor and bottom of the vertex. Therefore absolutely no anaesthetic is injected directly into the frontal, mid-scalp or crown regions that receive the PRP injections.  Doing it this way results in the bare minimum amount of local anaesthetic reaching these areas which in turn keeps the PRP environment optimized for maximum effect. So you will never see Newin Institute use topical anaesthetic cream or inject local anaesthetic directly into the recipient sites.

Thursday 2 October 2014

PRP for Hair Loss – What many do not know…



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PRP (platelet rich plasma) treatment has been around in the medical world for more than 25 years. In recent times it has become a very popular and effective method of treatment for sport injuries (relating to chronic pain in the knees, ankles, shoulders and tennis elbow) as well as facial skin rejuvenation.  PRP is typically performed by extracting 10-20mls of blood, centrifuging the blood  and then extracting the plasma (which carries the platelets) and injecting the PRP into the relevant area.
In only the last few years, hair loss clinics have begun offering PRP treatment to help maintain and potentiallyincrease the thickness of a person’s existing thinning hair. The problem is that these clinics follow the same generic PRP treatment plan (as if they are treating sore joints) and end up achieving very limited (or no) results when it comes to combatting hair loss. The patient, due to their own bad experience ends up convinced that PRP does not work for hair. There are a number of things many people are not aware of when it comes to PRP for hair loss. Below are 6 key points: