Eleojo is a practicing pediatric surgeon, hair specialist, and hair transplant surgeon who also experienced lichen planopilaris, or LPP, as a patient. In this Baldcast chapter, she describes an early encounter with Dr. Sanusi Umar that began with skepticism and shifted when she noticed a pattern in her own symptoms.
For Mia’s family, alopecia has brought questions that other parents may recognize when a child begins losing hair. In this Baldcast chapter, Dr. Sanusi Umar asks Mia’s mom what she would say to parents who may feel scared or alone, and her answer centers on continuing to look for possibilities
Massive ear keloids developed after piercings in this child, creating a treatment challenge that involved both removing the large growths and preserving the natural contour and appearance of the ears. One year after treatment with Dr. U, the follow-up documented that the treated areas remained clear of the massive keloid
Before surgery, Festus held onto a simple hope: that one day he would feel like himself again. Living with severe, multiple recurrent keloids had also made him think about how others saw him. In this chapter of The Bumpinator, his faith and his hope for a different future come into
For a dermatologist hair loss specialist, FUE is not one uniform procedure. Hair angle, follicle direction, skin thickness, skin firmness, donor location, and whether the hair is shaved can change the technical challenge of graft extraction. I developed UGraft Zeus around a simple premise: when hair and skin characteristics change,
Mia’s hair was growing, but in this chapter of The Baldcast, her family describes a change that reached beyond appearance. As her alopecia story continued, they noticed her becoming more outgoing, making more friends, and approaching other children with greater confidence. A Change Her Family Could See Dr. Sanusi Umar
A research-focused short video examines a recurring combination of acne keloidalis nuchae, dissecting cellulitis and secondary cutis verticis gyrata, with PIILIF appearing across biopsy sites. The observation is a candidate pattern for further study, not a conclusion that every scalp bump will progress into these conditions. When three scalp conditions
For Mia and her family, alopecia became part of an emotional moment when a princess experience she had been looking forward to could not happen as planned. In this chapter of The Bumpinator, Dr. Sanusi Umar asks Mia’s mother how the family explained the disappointment and helped their daughter move
