Hair restoration practice opens in Albuquerque

Precision Medical Hair Restoration and Aesthetics, a brand new medical observe devoted to serving to sufferers with hair loss, is now open and accepting purchasers.

The clinic, positioned at 5111 San Mateo NE, opened in mid-February, and in response to its founder, Dr. Christopher Plaman, is the primary observe in New Mexico solely devoted to hair loss.

Plaman, a College of New Mexico Medical College graduate, stated he selected to give attention to hair restoration throughout his residency in San Diego.

Throughout that point, he stated he got here throughout a specialist in that space and shortly realized that hair restoration sufferers have been popping out of their procedures happier than some other sufferers he had seen.

“It’s … truthfully a extremely unimaginable present to have the ability to assist folks,” Plaman stated. “… I noticed the sufferers have been coming in after the surgical procedure follow-up they usually have been the happiest sufferers I’ve seen. … They felt like they have been like a brand new individual once more.”

He stated he determined to begin his observe in New Mexico since he was raised in Albuquerque and realized there have been few hair restoration choices out there to folks within the state.

About 60% of his purchasers are native, however the remaining purchasers typically come from different states, he stated.

Plaman stated that since a ​individual’s hair is commonly integral to how they understand themself, hair restoration procedures can typically result in dramatic enhancements in high quality of life by way of a rise of confidence.

He stated that hair loss is extra widespread than most individuals assume — practically 80% of males and about 50% of ladies cope with hair loss of their lifetimes and for some sufferers, hair loss can start at an early age.

“We see a variety of sufferers,” Plaman stated. “Sometimes we deal with adults, however numerous occasions I’ll have mother and father are available in they usually’re additionally like ‘hey, what can I do for my teenager, and be sure that … they don’t expertise the identical hair loss that I’ve.’”

His observe makes use of a mixture of strategies to fight hair loss like topical remedies, injectable remedies and hair transplants utilizing a machine that makes use of synthetic intelligence to pick and harvest particular person hair follicles.

The primary machine the observe makes use of for hair transplant operations, the Artas iX Robotic Hair Restoration, can also be the one one in all its form in all of New Mexico, in response to Plaman.

Hair restoration providers can vary from underneath $100 for sure prescription medicines to over $10,000 for hair transplant operations.

Plaman stated consultations are free, however providers aren’t lined by insurance coverage.

Go to PrecisionMedicalHair.com for extra info.