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People of Asian descent, black people and females may require different surgical techniques for hair restoration than the typical standards used for Caucasian males, according to a clinical study presented to the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS).

Hair restoration specialists use a variety of transplant techniques to harvest groups of individual hair follicles from a denser area, usually the fringe above the ears and around the back of the head and graft those into a thinning area, most commonly the crown and front of the scalp.

"While hair transplantation for blacks, Asians and females is quite similar to that used for Caucasian males, there are several differences that must be considered to ensure the best results," said Pierre Bouhanna, M.D., Expert Aupres du Ministere de la Sante and Attache de Consultation a L'Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France. "Many parameters of the scalp and the hair shaft have to be carefully determined in order to choose the surgical techniques that will be most effective. Patients in these groups should ask their hair restoration specialist about these special considerations."

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