Monday 29 July 2013

FUE procedure technology and cost

FUE is rather a recent technology that has been devised to extract individual follicular units to minimize the scarring and invasiveness provided by FUT strip excision technique. This is also useful where strip excision cannot be done like fixing any scar or eyebrow hair transplant.
The point is to go for this when you have short thin hair, have a smaller recipient area or are going to fix any scar that has taken away some patch of hair off your scalp. When treating patent male or female pattern baldness in their advanced stages FUE can prove an extremely strenuous and might get you visible scars and can claim more density of your hair than that FUT would.
BHFUE can get you more donor hair from your beard, arms, legs and chest. And studies suggest that intact grafts by means of BHFUE can grow till 15cms whereas in their original areas body grows upto 4-5cms.
Good hair days means that you can feel free with the wind, water and sun exposure and run fingers through your hair and style them as you wish. All this is possible with FUE and you can even color your hair as you wish. But if you have good donor density and a bigger recipient site to cover up, it is still wiser to go for FUT, because it gives you maximum intact donor hair which can get damaged via FUE.
Acute hair loss happens usually occurs due to the synthesizing of dehydrotestosterone (DHT) from male androgenic hormones, and the symptom is a genetic inheritance called androgenic alopecia. Testosterone is supposed to be present in both male and female bodies but it is more primarily a male hormone which secrets in female bodies in low levels. But females are also affected by androgenic alopecia, but comparably less than men. In fact complete baldness due to androgenic alopecia in women is rather rare, it can happen due to cancer and chemotherapy however.

Androgenic alopecia is present in almost 50percent of men worldwide and every man is prone to have some amount of receding hairline at some point of his life. Hair transplant surgery is typically performed on patients who have some amount of donor hair in their scalp because another person’s hair won’t respond to the scalp of one. The follicles will die and eventually fall off soon enough.
But the advances of FUE don’t admit staying limited to an expensive and conditional procedure. With the newly launched technologies and state of the art systems devised for maximum graft extraction this surgery is becoming efficient for full on hair transplantation as well.

Unfortunately, there is way too much hype on both sides of the fence.  The FUE individuals condemning strip for a bad scar; and the strip people condemning FUE that you must shave your head and has poor graft growth.  I think there is risk in any hair transplant procedure.  I perform both FUE and strip and try to help a patient sift through the hyperbole and marketing buzz to get to what would best serve him or her.  I perform the ARTAS Robotic hair procedure and believe that it offers a very accurate method for FUE but I am not here to denigrate Neograft but need to state that it is truly nothing different than other manual devices except for the overblown marketing buzz.  A discussion with a qualified hair transplant surgeon can help you achieve your desired results no matter what methodology is ultimately chosen

FUE cost (UK) – It is always strongly advisable to invest in a good surgeon, experience and qualification are the regarded priority to seek for a surgeon but since this is an article which is provided from a distance so the experience and qualification and recognition is to play safe side. But the real deal is that how compassionate and understanding your surgeon is. The surgeon should be the top priority in your budget. Hair transplant FUE cost in London is approximately priced at £2, 000/ 500 grafts.

Vaser hi def liposuction the fourth generation of Liposuction

They call it the third generation liposuction, where ultrasonic frequency is used in the good old Liposuction surgery to remove the hard and sticky fat layers from underneath your skin. London is a city of beautiful people and beauty is all about feeling great inside and the outside automatically reflects its inner beauty. Cosmetic surgery is not always about changing the God gifted body. With Vaser Hi-def Liposuction surgery it is but regaining your inner beauty from the man made lifestyle.
Vaser Hi-Definition Liposuction or VHD or 4D Liposculpture is a common term in London. Everybody has heard of it, hundreds of people in London alone have tried it and most of them are avidly satisfied with the results, there are consistently dissatisfaction cases too. But all in all, there are no severe or damage case reports or side effects of this technique of Liposuction.
But more advanced from traditional liposuction, Hi-Def Liposculpture is not only about draining excess body fat, but it uses highly advanced techniques and tools which actually structures and sculpts the body of both men and women, mainly the abdomen and waist area enhancing the natural and God gifted contours which exerted by various lifestyle bugs like stress, fatigue, irregular diet or sometimes hereditarily can accumulate fatty tissue around the stomach, upper arm and the inner portion of thighs. And this is a common case in all cities like London. Vaser High-Def Liposuction starts to show its results within a couple of days post the surgery. Although it is not applicable if the patient has gone or going through a weight loss program recently. Vaser Hi-Def Liposuction only is for patients whose flab is not affected by any weight loss program.
London has endorsed this safe and effective cosmetic surgery and its state-of-the-art techniques with grace. In London, it’s always wise to choose a clinic and doctor dealing with Veser hi-def liposculpturing, to be recognized by (General Medical Council) GMC or a similar organization.

Liposuction was prominently introduced in the 1980s which was basically the removal of excess body fat from the human body with the use of an intravenous drug mixed with a local sedative which allowed the fatty area to become tumescent with the fat to be removed with a blunt cannula through a small incision. This procedure came out with good results, but sometimes, the patient developed sagginess on the operated are, sometimes a lump or dent may occur in the skin of those people who people who have overused it. These surgical risks can be reduced by manually discussing and consulting the surgery with a recognized and reputed doctor and clinic. By the 90s Liposuction using ultrasound waves to melt away the fat before draining it from the body. In Colorado, Sound Surgical Technology’s specialized ultrasonic cannula is used for this technique, which made the process more prominent and safe.

Thursday 18 July 2013

A decade passed contouring your problem areas

Vaser Liposuction uses high frequency sound waves or ultrasound assisted liposuction that vibrates into the applied area and gradually melts down superficial fat that is unwanted to the body and just appears to make your skin saggy and bulging or even make you fat and unattractive.
Now this is only to benefit subcutaneous fatty layers, for they tend to be much stubborn and do not respond to exercise and dieting. In general there are 2 types of fat, subcutaneous fat and visceral fat. Subcutaneous fat is the fat that accumulates under the skin. Visceral fat is the fat that accumulates around the organs in your abdomen. Men tend to accumulate visceral fat and as a result develop a "pot belly." Women tend to accumulate subcutaneous fat.



The most common treatable area of this procedure is the abdomen, then love handles and chest fat removal inner and outer thighs, arm liposuction. Men mostly undergo for chest fat removal and contouring of their love handle while women opt majorly for abdomen, thighplasty and arm liposuctions.
The ultrasonic mechanism looks not much different than that of the tumescent traditional liposuction technique that is the usage of anaesthetics. The choice of anaesthetics prepare the surgical area for the surgery, by numbing the area, and swelling it up and shrinking the blood vessels in the area that  all together causes less blood loss and damage to surrounding tissues. The Vaser liposuction adds the ultrasound assisted cannula to the procedure that is when being inserted through tiny pencil incisions in the skin, the sound energy can reach till the deep layers of fat without reaching the cannula in too deep and moving as vigorously as it used to be with the manual technique. The emulsification turns fat from a solid form into liquid; the liquefied fat is then aspirated using a suction tube attached with the cannula.
Vaser Hi def liposuction does the same thing and is considered the fourth generation lipo because it not only removes the fat but its advanced mechanism can contour the patient’s treatable area with body sculpting and mimicking the naturally defined musculature like the six packs in the adwomen and other various parts of the body. This technique is not only more efficient at fat removal than conventional liposuction, but also more selective (i.e. it disrupts fat cells but not blood vessels, nerves and connective tissue), and as a result, it is less traumatic.

Swelling, bruising pain and discomfort are some inevitable conditions with this kind of surgery, however, Vaser Standard or hi def liposuction causes these conditions under easy tolerance of the patient that lasts around the night of the surgery day and starts to decrease from the morning. This timeline varies patient to patient and depends hugely upon the chosen surgeon. But following the proper post surgical instructions including avoiding much movements and wearing the provided compression garment for maximum time sustains a quick and normal recovery within 2weeks of downtime, perhaps even less but it is always wise to give it the time.

Friday 12 July 2013

Hair Transplantation to relocate your own hair to cover your hair loss

Hair restoration candidates are required to have a healthy or baldness resistant hair that typically grows in the back of their scalp and above the ears and this is used as the donor hair to be extracted and replaced in bald area referred as recipient area. Factors, such as hair color, texture and waviness or curliness of the donor hair may affect the result.

Determining the donor hair quality and the right surgical procedure includes a long term consultation session between the patient and surgeon. Where the surgeon use densitometry to assess the patient’s donor site quality; the patient’s medical history is assessed to locate the exact cause of hair loss and baldness including patient’s lifestyle habits like smoking, drinking, diet and working habits; patient’s drug usage including herbal remedies and medications to fight hair loss. The patient’s physical and mental health is also checked and lastly the patient’s expectations are understood and in exchange the patient is explained of the realistic expectations that can be associated from this surgery.

The advancements of hair transplantation nowadays are Follicular Unit Transplant/ Transfer (FUT) and Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) that are useful and not so useful in their own norms. A hair transplant surgery is done under local anaesthesia and takes from 6-10hours in one or more sessions depending on the procedure and the amount of hair transplanted. There are a number of associative techniques used in this surgery. Sometimes, two or more techniques are used to achieve the best results. Transplant techniques, such as micro-grafts, follicular unit transfer, and single unit transfers are generally performed on patients who desire a fuller, thicker head of hair.

Follicular Unit Transplantation is an invasive surgery where the excision of a strip of skin from the donor site is involved, which derives from the traditional strip harvesting process that has been advanced and replaced with FUT. This procedure involves cropping the hair short and excising a narrow strip of scalp skin from the donor site that we discussed earlier in the article, is resistant to hair loss. The skin is removed using a manual forceps and scalpel under local anaesthesia that is injected prior to the surgery and helps tighten the blood vessels and tissues causing less blood loss. The removed strip of skin would contain hundreds of hair follicular units. Each follicular unit from the donor strip contains one to four hair follicles or strands of hair. The strip of skin is put under a microscope, where the individual hairs follicles are dissected very carefully; this part is called graft dissection.

FUT is sometimes also combined with dense packing techniques in a mega sessions wherein as many as 2200 follicular units can be transferred in one mega session.

Once the donor hair is ready, it is transplanted into the recipient area by ways of tiny pinprick incisions that is made using specialised needle punches or laser beams. Sometime laser beams can cause minor burns in the recipient hole that can affect the final results also, that’s why surgeons greatly depend on a motorised incision devise which prepares the recipient area with accurate precision and evenness that would be very difficult for the surgeon to do with manual punches. The pinprick incisions are made into irregular patterns to mimic a fuller and thicker nature. Once the making the incisions are complete, thin forceps are used to microscopically plant the donor hair into the tiny holes. The holes close in within a week. And hold up the hair grafts as tightly as natural hair roots would, progressing its growth and density soon after.

An average FUT procedure is performed on an outpatient basis and spans from 6 to 7 hours and can yield the maximum hair to be transplanted because that one strip of skin can provide thousands of follicles under one session without the requirement of further sessions.

The surgical scar is sutured back in to a fine line whose fineness depends a lot on the surgeon’s artistry, all in all which is supposed to fade off within a month or so. And completely disappear over a few more months of time. The first night post op and a few more days and nights might be exposed minor or major discomfort like pain, burning or any such discomfort.

Follicular Unit Extraction is a minimally invasive surgery which rejects the usage of strip excision. This is done by manually extracting each individual hair follicular unit with the use of a number of manual or motorised extraction devices to safely extract the hair follicular units without damaging the grafts. The hair can also be extracted from the body like arms, legs and beard that are usually resistant to baldness. However there will be major variation in the quality of the hair because certainly the hair in your scalp is different in texture than that in your arms and legs.


A hair transplant cost in London is priced anywhere between £2,000 to £9,000 that is dependent on your chosen clinic, surgeon, amount of grafting, use of anaesthetics, whether or not you are staying overnight and post op care required. It is regarded spare your hair transplant costing with the most eminent and reputed surgeon to avoid any complication costs.

Precautions and ideals for a Male Breast Reduction surgery

A full examination is needed to give you more information as to which treatment will be effective.  Like all aesthetic surgery, male breast reduction should only be done in patients who are adults and who understand the risks consequences in the level of commitment that the patient needs to make to ensure a good result. Your best course of action is to be evaluated by a board-certified plastic surgeon with a great deal of experience in this technique. As you are quite young, it is likely that your skin is a very good quality. For this reason, the plastic surgeon may recommend Vaser liposuction alone for chest fat removal or pseudo gynecomastia.



Even with minimal breast tissue enlargement, an enlarged areolar diameter tends to produce a feminized breast/chest appearance. For patients with an enlarged areolar diameter, an areolar reduction can be performed in addition to direct excision of breast tissue and glands and liposuction. This requires an incision, and thus a scar, that encompasses the entire circumference of the areola. However, the scar is usually obscured fairly well by the color difference between areolar skin and the adjacent chest skin, and the reduced areolar diameter can be critical to producing a more masculine appearance of the anterior chest.
Keep in mind that one of the most important factors for a good result is for you to use a compressive vest garment at all times after the surgery. This garment will ensure that the skin stick smoothly to the underlying 
First, before any surgery, you want to make sure there is not an underlying problem that will just reoccur. Consulting with an endocrinologist would be a good idea. You also want to make sure you weight is and has been stable. It is not uncommon for guys your age to experience "man boobs."
Your recovery depends on which procedure type you have. Typically, you will wear garment for about a week. Your swelling and bruising should subside within a few weeks. The swelling should not be anything too significant...not any bigger than what you were before the procedure. Then you should be able to resume full activity within 2-3 months. Your chest should feel normal once you give it a little time to recover.
Surgeons often utilize ultrasound assisted Vaser liposuction for the treatment of gynecomastia (male brest reduction).  The tissue over a man's chest is quite dense and liposuction without the assistance of ultrasound can be difficult. The Vaser probe helps break up and liquefy this dense tissue and therefore results in a greater amount of fat removal with fewer traumas and bleeding.  Even with Vaser liposuction it may still be necessary to directly excise the densest breast tissue beneath the nipple.
This includes Vaser Hi Def liposculpture as well as the patient can have the same results and sculpt their musculature to a firm, toned and enhanced definition of their chest.
Vaser lipo cost in the UK
The average male breast reduction cost in the UK is £3,000. However, male breast reduction prices vary widely starting at £1,800 and going as high as £4,750. How much you pay for this type of surgery in the UK depends on where you have it done, how experienced the surgeon is and exactly what is involved in the surgery. The bigger the man is the more fat needs to be removed, this therefore affects his gynecomastia or chest fat removal surgery, so for a big man surgery will cost closer to £4,000 than £2,000.

The cost of gynecomastia surgery varies depending on the extent of the condition as well as the location, which includes; the rank of your chosen surgeon, hospital, anesthesia and pathology.  It is slightly higher if skin removal is required.  Insurance rarely covers the procedure, which is considered cosmetic by most insurance carriers.

Thursday 4 July 2013

Pseudogynecomastia and its best treatments

Gynecomastia is a different conditions which occurs temporarily or lastingly in men wherein they develop genuine mammary glands due to a number of reasons. Gynecomastia is basically an under evaluated hormonal disorder when female steroid hormones exceeds the levels of male hormones that has evidently taken place in neonatal during birth considerably when steroid hormones gets transmitted from the mother to the son via. This is a temporary condition and has no such effect to the child just that the chest would be a little swelled that is sometimes even unnoticeable to the mother and family.

Hormonal Imbalance causing gynecomastia can occur at any stage of a man’s life, more strongly during puberty, adolescence and old age. When evolutionarily we our bodies are exposed to lots of hormonal changes, also some medications have similar affects on the male body, like medications for tuberculosis, hypertension, some strong steroids and antibiotics. Drugs which can cause hormonal fluctuation and gynecomastia are a widely poked subject of research since this is not yet completely understood.
However, pseudo gynecomastia is not a misunderstood condition which is to have subcutaneous around the chest due to overweight and any drug usage and narcotic habits in men. The diagnosis shows that enlarged chest is actually accumulated fat that is same as in the rest of the body.

The most trusted treatment for this symptom is surgery than medication. Medications can manipulate hormonal changes in the body which more subjected to gynecomastia but chest fat is different and might not respond to medications even if hormonal levels are stabilized. The fat might act stubborn and hard to shift.
Liposuction is the most sustainable treatment advised by surgeons all over the world and Vaser liposuction just takes the whole procedure to its third generation ultrasonic assistance regarded as the best procedure since 2006.
Vaser Hi def Liposuction is to sculpt the body mimicking how natural musculatures of a six packed abdomen and this can met with regular exercise and diet to acquire a real one. Vaser Hi Def just speeds up the process. Your final results take at least 4-6 months to settle to so its arrival won’t be as obvious to be artificial.
In most instances it is very important to be near your ideal weight before considering male breast reduction. Enlargement of the male breast can be primarily fat, primarily glandular tissue or a combination. Glandular tissue must be excised while fat tissue can be effectively reduced with liposuction cost. Some forms of liposuction, particularly Vaser liposuction and Smart Lipo may offer good advantages for male chest fat removal. Although some novel instruments and strategies have been developed to remove glandular tissue through a small scar, most patients with excess glandular tissue require a scar along the edge of the areola for access. Excellent results are common with gynecomastia surgery performed by experienced Plastic Surgeons but recurrence, scar indentations and other complications occur occasionally.

Most patients who have this surgery regret not exploring their options earlier and are very happy with the results from surgery. Enlarged and dilated areolae can also be corrected at the time of this surgery when necessary. Patients are back to work in a few days for liposuction only procedures and 1-2 weeks when excision is required.

This information is entirely based on face to face discussion with 2 highly qualified plastic surgeons practicing Vaser Liposuction and male breast reduction and procedures for fat removal from the chest at a state of the art and much reputed cosmetic clinic in London. This information is applicable for practitioners and seeking patients worldwide.

Looking for a cost effective hair transplant clinic in London

The anticipation of days and limits can be well imagined when time is passing by and you are losing a lot of the hair you once boasted of and never thought of parting with it. We love our hair, whether we are men or women, our hair defines our face and persona in a great deal and hair loss and baldness can be really disquieting to both men and women. While men have accepted to deal and live with it so has the society, women’s baldness is still unacceptable by the society and hence the women as well.
Women are most often than not subjects of sympathy and unavoidable attention when it comes to hair loss and baldness. However, there aren’t as many women as men who are affected by it, women’s baldness still happens to be a pathological condition most avidly due to cancer or any medical conditions and genetic inheritance as the main causes.
Either ways, a hair transplant surgery is largely sought by both men and women; given the ratio of men in some digits is more than that of women.
Given these situations, a hair transplant clinic in London should be certified or boarded under BAAPS or GMC who practice FDA, CE and/or equivalent board approved technology and drugs. These certifications do the authentication for you that a boarded surgeon has to regularize the criterions of qualification, talent and experience to acquire his or certification that prove them with the reputation of an expert. So the thing you should look for is the surgeon and the clinics where you would find them usually get expensive perhaps in ways more than that a local clinic you can find in the neighborhood that is not as formally certified. It is strongly advisable that you go for the high bid when it comes for you safety involving a physical surgery. So the expense can actually safeguard or insure more prediction and precision about your final results and operative success from hazards like long time or permanent scars, bruises or and such damages.
Hair transplant cost in London is priced between £2,000 and £9,000. But your successful hair transplant cost relies on some key principles.
We have earlier discussed that board certification and the skill and expertise of the surgeon is important and usually expensive. So considering this as the obvious your surgery costs should include advancements of technology used. The hair loss treatments and procedures have developed a lot and is fast evolving and the better side of the medical branch is opting for the most advanced FUT and FUE hair restoration surgeries where the usage of motorised and advanced equipments offer great results. Experience of surgeon’s practice of latest equipments and their usage can add up with considerable taxes.
Nurse consultants in a clinic play an important role as every patient has some unique need while they call or contact the clinic online, some clinics that involves sales personnel and outsourced staffs to answer this contacts without any knowledge more than a few weeks or days of training deserves a boo for they do no good to you.



The right compassionate medical assistants are meant to thoroughly examine your condition and depending on the proper and all inclusive examination of patient’s medical history, lifestyle management and both physical and mental condition. In these evaluations sometimes a patient is even turned down by a recognised and well reputed hair restoration clinic if the patient doesn’t qualify the candidacy, while some above mentioned outsourced clinics would agree to do the same and that too at a reasonable cost. There is not much dependable point to it.
Lastly your hair transplant fue costs at a good clinic come around £2,000 and £9,000 depending on how much graft replacement you demand and what expectations can be associated with your case. This along with additional costs of post op medications like some antiseptic topical creams and special shampoos and other stuff you might need, and numbers of sessions required, whether or not you need to stay at the hospital and moreover how much downtime you had to take off from your work can also be associated with the surgery cost.

All these things determine your hair transplant costs that your chosen hair restoration clinic in London would care about. And the reasonable price doesn’t mean cheap but it means how purposive and trustworthy and successful your surgery aims to be. A successful surgery lasts a lifetime and provides natural hairline and growth cycle back to its normal form.