HairScience: Grow, Keep and Boost it Now
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HairScience - Melissa Morrison Toyos MD.
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Getting Into Hair
Attending a hair transplant conference, I did a quick scan of the room. The hair transplant surgeons at this meeting were overwhelmingly male, most of them had personal experience with hair loss and transplant surgeries, sometimes just one surgery, sometimes four or more but with full heads of hair to show for it. Some of them were sporting mullets, just because they could, I guess. Full, dramatic hair was good advertising. The surgeons were from every specialty too: the dermatologists that you expect here and there but also general surgeons, nephrologists, ear nose and throat doctors. I did not, however, run into one ophthalmologist. So how did an eye surgeon get started in hair restoration? I’ve spent over twenty years focusing on one tiny organ and on microsurgery to correct cataracts, glaucoma and the like. On the surface, it sounds crazy, but it made more and more sense once I dove into what we know of the science of hair, what works, what doesn’t and why. Surprisingly, there is a significant amount of overlap between the devices and medications used for hair growth already in use in an average ophthalmologist’s office, on the effects of hormones on the end target and the results of unchecked inflammation on hair growth and on eye health. Some of it was new like Rogaine and finasteride but many of the cornerstone hair growth medications are already being used by eye doctors. Latisse, light therapy, lasers and the principles of microsurgery are squarely in the wheelhouse of ophthalmologists, so I had more familiarity than I even imagined with most of therapies before I even got started in the hair business.
I personally became involved in hair restoration through my work with the NFL cheerleaders in my area. They are contractually obligated to wear beautiful (and expensive) hair and lash extensions so they look extra gorgeous on the field and off. They wear their extensions 24/7 through the season with all the normal wear and tear plus they perform all kinds of sexy hair flips during their halftime routines that pull and create traction. Both their hair and lash extensions ultimately took their toll on the natural hair. At the end of the season, a lot of them had hair that was broken, weakened, even pulled out by the root. And they weren’t the only ones participating in the lash extension craze – it had gone mainstream by that point. What I noticed was no matter how skilled your lash artist, eventually those beautiful lash extensions will take their toll. The artificial lashes add weight onto natural lashes causing weakening and breakage (sometimes down to the base of lash!) and the glue used to affix them causes eye irritation and chemical damage resulting in thin, brittle eyelashes. I had already been treating dry eye related to lash extensions, ocular allergies and reactions to glue, corneal abrasions when the lashes fell into the eye and eye irritation related to extensions and now I found myself doing eyelash rehab in their off-season, primarily with Latisse and products like it. Of course, they wanted to know if what was helping their eyelashes would also help the hair on their head. (Spoiler alert: it does.)
Next, I myself experienced a more stressful than normal year. In fairness, some of it could have been hormonal, too. I started noticing that my hair was clogging the drain in the bathtub. At any given time, I could dredge up enough hair on my bathroom floor after blow drying to create my own tiny American Girl doll wig. It was time to do what I do best: dive into the research, rely on scientific studies and start separating the marketing and hype from the science. I used this process to create a family of proven scientific solutions to solve this problem for my patients, for myself and anyone else who suffers from unwanted hair loss or thinning and wanted to learn more about preventing it.
The truth is, almost everyone has or will run into a hair los at some point. The numbers tell the story: by the age of 35, 66% of American men will experience some degree of noticeable hair loss.¹ 35! That’s still pretty young to resign yourself to letting go. The numbers for women are maybe more disturbing because it’s not culturally acceptable to just shave your head and get on with your life. Twenty one million women currently suffer with alopecia and 80% of women will have noticeable hair loss in their lifetimes.² Hair loss in both men and women can start as early as the 20s and even the teenage years and the psychological and social implications can be severe.
A little about me. You should know that I am impatient by nature and appreciate the instant and miraculous results of LASIK, cataract surgery and some of the non-invasive facial rejuvenation techniques that I have grown to love like MIXTOLaserLift. I am not typically satisfied with results that I have to squint at to appreciate. There are some things in life that cannot be modified but with everything I’ve learned I do not believe that enetics and the progression of time does not have to dictate your hairline. I am ready to share what I’ve learned here so that we can use science together to achieve the hair that you always wanted or the hair you never had.
Here at Toyos Clinic we have almost every type of solution that exists for unwanted hair loss that I will describe to you now. Pick what you like: some people prefer only non-invasive solutions, others like to do everything possible – all at the same time, and there are some others that go straight to surgery knowing that they will never keep up with vitamins or topicals on a day to basis. My job is to show you what’s out there that can help, help you understand how much it can help and it will be your job to choose the product or products that feel right for you. The following list of solutions that I will describe to you is the closest I have found to LASIK for hair – and the results are definitely worth it.
Jessi’s story