Hair Restoration

Bangkok, Thailand – Dr. Steven Gabel, on behalf of the entire Gabel Hair Restoration staff is proud to announce that the 2019 Distinguished Surgical Assistant Award honoring a surgical assistant with exemplary service and outstanding accomplishments in the field of hair restoration surgery was awarded to the Gabel Center’s Aileen Ullrich, CMA. What is the […]

Bangkok, Thailand – Dr. Steven Gabel was a featured faculty speaker at the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery’s (ISHRS) 27th Annual World Congress in Bangkok, Thailand. As a long-time faculty member, Dr. Gabel lectured on several topics including FUE limitations, the topic of ethics, and Advanced Techniques in Hair Restoration to an audience of […]

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 […]

hairline and frontal area. He also wanted to be able to cut his hair very close to his scalp so he opted for a Follicular Unit Excision (FUE) procedure for his hair transplant. We transplanted 1,371 ultra-refined follicular unit grafts into the frontal hairline area using a high-density technique at our Portland Hair Transplant Clinic […]

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 […]

About the Procedure This patient is a 38-year-old woman who has thinning hair due to female alopecia. She was concerned with the appearance of her frontal hairline, and frontal-temporal areas of her scalp where the thinning is most noticeable. After consulting with Dr. Gabel, it was determined that she is an excellent candidate for a […]

In this video, Dr. Gabel discusses whether Follicular Unit Excision, also known as FUE, is a scarless procedure or not. Please enjoy this video by Dr. Gabel.   What is FUE Hair Transplant? FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction) hair transplant is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that involves extracting individual hair follicles from the donor area […]

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

Could this new technology pave the way to cure baldness? Recently an article appeared mentioning a new, groundbreaking technology to restore hair to those who previously to now, were unable to have a hair restoration procedure or were poor candidates for hair transplant surgery. Other medical options, such as Minoxidil or Finasteride, have long been […]