When a child experiences alopecia, parents may find themselves searching for answers and weighing different forms of care. In this chapter of The Baldcast, Mia’s father reflects on his family’s experience with alopecia totalis and shares a message for other fathers facing a similar situation. A Message to Other Parents
Dr. Eleojo Achimugu knows hair care from the physician’s side of the consultation. But when she developed lichen planopilaris, a form of scarring alopecia, she also experienced the uncertainty of being a patient whose condition was not responding to the treatments she tried. In this Baldcast introduction, Dr. Sanusi Umar
For Mia’s family, hair loss became more than a medical concern. Her parents, Fernando and Blanca, kept traveling from Arizona as they looked for answers for their daughter. In this Baldcast chapter, Dr. Sanusi Umar reflects on what their persistence says about the effect a child’s hair loss can have
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,
