Category: Follicular Units

ISHRS LAUNCHES FIGHT THE FIGHT PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TO COMBAT HAIR RESTORATION FRAUD WORLDWIDE CHICAGO, IL. – November 1, 2019. In an effort to warn unsuspecting consumers about the growing problem of fraudulent, illicit clinics performing hair restoration surgery to promote hair growth, the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) is launching a multi-pronged public […]

FUE Hair Transplant Timeline – This 40-year-old male patient had been affected by alopecia. Dr. Gabel recommended an FUE transplant procedure to restore the patient’s frontal hairline. During this procedure, Dr. Gabel transplanted 2,181 hair follicles into the frontal hairline in one session. The following photographs were taken during the first 10 days including just […]

Follicular unit transplant (FUT) and Follicular Unit Excision (FUE) are both procedures at a skilled surgeon’s disposal for hair restoration surgery. The preference about when to call upon which method is based upon the mutual discretion of the patient and physician. The variation in the techniques used to harvest donor grafts between the two methods […]

Calculating Your Hair Grafts The amount of hair needed to create a cosmetically impactful hair restoration is an art as much as a science. It requires the aesthetically trained and experienced eye of a hair transplantation surgeon to evaluate each patient based on their goals, treatment plan, personal physiology, age, and a variety of other […]

One of the most important factors in evaluating a hair transplant candidate is the availability of their donor supply. If the available donor area has been depleted by past procedures or by physiological factors, it may restrict what a hair restoration surgeon can address in the future. It’s vital that responsible techniques are used to harvest […]

At the Gabel Center, we strive to accommodate and assess every hair loss patient in a holistic and customized manner. For patients with extensive baldness that exceeds their donor area’s ability to safely provide grafts for transplantation, alternative sources of donor hair can be found and evaluated throughout the body. Harvesting body hair allows surgeons […]

38 Yr Old Male has 2nd procedure with Gabel This patient is a 38-year-old gentleman who was concerned about his deep front-temporal hair loss in the front of his head. The young man underwent a follicular unit hair transplant strip surgery, his second procedure with Dr. Gabel, at his Portland Hair Transplant office. In total, Dr. […]

Enhancing The Frontal Hairline This patient is a 57-year-old gentleman who desired to enhance his frontal hairline due to a slow recession of hair in the frontal region. Rather than bringing his hairline down significantly, he wanted to increase the density of that area to make his hairline appear fuller. The patient underwent a follicular […]

The hair follicle is an organ of the body, and as simple as it looks, is quite complex.  The body at birth has about 5 million hairs.  The adult scalp has on average 100,000 to 125,000 hairs. There are several types of hairs throughout the body including terminal hairs and vellus hairs. This will be […]

Dr. Steven Gabel offers his patients a wide array of hair restoration treatment options and strives to stay on the cutting edge of modern medicine while doing so. One of the most sought after surgeries in the field is follicular unit excision (FUE, formerly Extraction), which can cosmetically benefit many patients suffering from hair loss […]