Main description:

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.

An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Contents:

Part 1: Evaluation of Hair Loss

Medical Work-up for Hair Loss
Ethnic Differences in Hair
Diagnosis and Treatment of Scarring Alopecia
Part 2: Minimizing and Concealing Hair Loss

Nutritional Supplements
Hair Styling and Processing
Wigs and Prosthetics
Medical Tattooing and Microblading
Part 3: Medical Treatments

Minoxidil, Finasteride, and Dutasteride
Topical and Intralesional Steroids
Topical Immunotherapies
Biologic Therapies
Part 4: Procedural Treatments

Lasers, Lights, and LEDs
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) and Platelet-Rich Fibrin Matrix
Stem Cell Injections and Implants
Hair Transplantation
Part 5: Emerging Therapies

Medications
Genomic Therapies
Devices