Category: Hair Restoration

In this video, Dr. Gabel discusses whether Follicular Unit Excision, also known as FUE, is a scarless procedure or not. Please enjoy this video. If you would like to find out more about FUE (follicular unit excision surgery), follicular unit transplant strip harvest method (FUT), or s non-surgical hair restoration options, please give us a […]

Recently this 71-year-old man had two hair transplants at the Gabel Center and stopped back in to the office for a follow-up appointment. Before his surgeries, he had been concerned with his significatly thinning hair, and had searched throughout the Pacific Northwest, before finding Dr. Gabel and the Gabel Hair Restoration Center. After meeting with […]

Dr. Steven Gabel is honored to join several prominent leaders in the Hair Restoration field as a faculty member at the 2019 hands on cadaver lab and live surgery workshop in Istanbul, Turkey. The three day workshop will take place April 19 – 21, 2019. At this event, each step of the Follicular Unit Excision […]

Dr. Gabel actively strives to holistically address a patient’s hair loss on an individual basis, and this means that he is mindful to remain an expert in both surgical and non-surgical treatment options that can be customized to provide treatment plans for a variety of different patient scenarios and considerations. One of the most talked […]

Surgical Restoration for Straight Hair Certain hair characteristics will shape the surgical treatment options best suited for a particular patient. People with straight hair are generally considered better candidates for FUE graft harvesting than curly haired patients. Harvesting the individual follicles from patients with straight hair is much less labor intensive when compared to patients […]

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 upon their goals, their treatment plan, personal physiology, age, and a variety of […]

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 […]

FUT (Follicular Unit Transplant) and FUE (Follicular Unit Excision) are both procedures at a skilled surgeon’s disposal for hair restoration. 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 can […]

Dr. Gabel strives to seek holistic solutions for hair loss patients and incorporates both surgical and non-surgical treatment plans into his practice. No two patients are ever completely identical and every individual must be evaluated on a case by case basis. Dr. Gabel is always careful to evaluate the efficacy of treatment options as they […]

Dr. Gabel strives to make sure patients experience optimal healing and minimal scarring after their hair restoration procedures and he has made certain that his methods are conducive to reducing scar tissue and mitigating the cosmetic impact of potential scars. Scarring After A Hair Transplant A scar is a byproduct of your body healing an […]