Offering a step-by-step, practical approach to this expanding area of dermatology, Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology: Hair Restoration enables you to master the up-to-date hair restoration techniques that produce the superior results your patients expect. Focusing on non-invasive treatment of diffuse, non-scarring hair loss, including androgenetic alopecia, this unique title, edited by expert clinicians Drs. Murad Alam and Jeffrey S. Dover, thoroughly covers the latest treatment options―all abundantly illustrated and evidence based. A video library demonstrating techniques helps you successfully incorporate  today’s most effective procedures into your practice.

• Provides current, authoritative guidance on popular treatments including topical and systemic therapies, stem cell-based therapies, platelet-rich plasma, genomic therapies, microblading, nutritional supplements, energy-based treatments, emerging treatments, and hair transplant.
• Considers ethnic differences in hair.
• Contains up-to-date sections on evaluation of hair loss, minimizing and concealing hair loss, medical treatments for hair loss, procedural treatments for hair loss, and emerging therapies for hair loss.
• Features high-quality images and a video library demonstrating scalp micropigmentation, scar correction procedure, female pattern hair loss, scalp photography for patients with alopecia, and more..
• Includes procedural how-to’s, step-by-step advice on proper techniques, case studies, contraindications and managing complications, and pearls and pitfalls―all in a consistently templated, quick reference format.

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Master today’s in-demand cosmetic dermatology procedures

Contents

۱. Medical workup for hair loss
۲. Ethnic differences in hair
۳. Diagnosis and treatment of scarring alopecia
۴. Nutritional supplements
۵. Hair cosmetics, styling, and processing
۶. Wigs and hair prosthetics
۷. Micropigmentation and microblading
۸. Minoxidil, finasteride, and dutasteride
۹. Topical immunotherapies
۱۰. Systemic immunotherapies
۱۱. Complementary and alternative medicine for hair loss
۱۲. Platelet-rich plasma
۱۳. Stem cell–based therapies
۱۴. Hair transplantation
۱۵. Lasers, lights, and leds
۱۶. Emerging medications
۱۷. Devices and genomic therapies

Video Contents

Video 7.1 Introduction to scalp micropigmentation.
Video 7.2 Preoperative procedure.
Video 7.3 Scalp micropigmentation technique.
Video 7.4 Scar correction procedure.
Video 7.5 Cases 1 and 2: Female pattern hair loss.
Video 7.6 Case 3: Androgenetic alopecia and scar.
Video 11.1 Standardized scalp photography for patients with alopecia.