The Farjo team attended the BAHRS Autumn Regional Meeting at Manchester Central as part of Aesthetic Medicine North, an annual event for medical aesthetic practitioners. A mixture of hair transplant surgeons, trichologists, hair transplant surgical assistants, clinic owners, patient advisors and semi-permanent pigmentation practitioners from across the country came together to attend the meeting, An […]
Every year, thousands of men travel abroad to undergo hair transplant surgery, enticed by the low cost of the procedure – and every year we hear horror stories of those who have suffered botched transplants and painful after-effects as the result of unregulated clinics. BBC News featured our hair restoration surgeon Dr. Greg Williams in […]
The 32-year-old said she had shed ‘loads’ of hair since welcoming son Johnny in January. Here, top hair doctor Dr. Bessam Farjo explains the hormonal changes that can have a surprising impact on your mane. Dr. Farjo, of the Farjo Hair Institute, said: “It is completely normal for a woman’s hair to appear to thinner […]
From 14 to 16 June, the brightest minds in the medical aesthetic industry will be gathering at the Facial Aesthetic Conference and Exhibition – or FACE – at the QEII Centre in London. FACE is the nation’s premier scientific conference in this field, featuring over 100 speakers exploring the latest clinical information and innovation in […]
Farjo Hair Institute Features on Holding Back the Years! We were thrilled to be featured on BBC’s ‘Holding Back the Years’, a lifestyle programme that offers advice on staying well and living longer. On Tuesday’s episode, presenter Bill Turnbull caught up with Herald and Times journalist Brian Beacom, who elected to have a full hair […]
Our patient liaison manager, Steve Kay, tells us a bit more about his role at Farjo What’s your background and how did you come to work at the Farjo Hair Institute? I worked in the cosmetic surgery industry for 15 years as patient liaison manager, advising on the spectrum of surgery procedures, and we used […]
Time and time again, we’re asked by patients if we can ‘cure’ their baldness. The simple answer is, of course, no. While we can advise on treatments to encourage hair regrowth, slow down the hair loss process and perform hair transplant surgery, scientists are yet to find a definitive solution to make baldness a thing […]
For centuries, male pattern hair loss has consumed the minds of many men; from Ancient Rome’s Julius Caesar, with his iconic wreath to cover his balding head, to the elaborately white powdered wigs that were popular with bald English and French nobles in the 17th century. Along with these age-old cover-ups to hide baldness, a […]
So, you know you want to have a hair transplant – but have you decided what kind of transplant you want to pursue? There are two types of surgery: strip FUT and FUE. Both have their benefits and drawbacks, so how do you choose? FUE Follicular unit extraction, or FUE, has become popular because it […]