There are multiple factors that can cause hair loss, including:
- Stress
- Genetics
- Hormonal fluctuations
- Malnutrition
- Medical conditions
- Unhealthy scalp
- Viral infections
- Certain medications
Treatment Details
Consultation Required?
Yes
Appointment Length:
30 - 45 minutes
Appointment Frequency:
Monthly for 6 months
How It Works
During your consultation, our dermatology provider examines your scalp, performs lab work and possibly a biopsy to determine what type of hair loss you are experiencing. We can treat hair loss that is caused by androgenic alopecia (caused by aging) and telogen effluvium (‘hair shock’ caused by stressors such as pregnancy, weight loss from GLP-1 medications, or viral infections such as COVID-19).
We review your results, discuss the best treatment options for you, and then proceed with your personalized care. Depending on your results, your treatment plan could include a combination of oral medications, topical solutions, and/or in-office procedures.
Benefits
At The Well Westlake & Advanced Women’s Health and Surgery, we provide you with the resources and tools you need to restore your hair and confidence!
Healthier Scalp and Hair
Hair restoration in Cleveland enhances your scalp health, reduces inflammation and stimulates follicles to encourage regrowth.
Quick Results
You will start noticing new hair growth in at little as 3 months, with further improvements developing over time.
Personalized
No two patients are the same. Our dermatology provider customizes each treatment plan based on the results of your scalp examination, labs and biopsy (if needed).
Start With Our Treatment Planning Tool
Receive personalized recommendations and find the best treatments that will help you accomplish your wellness goals.
The Hair Restoration Process
Step 1: Consultation
You’ll start your hair restoration journey by meeting with our dermatology provider for a consultation. At this visit, your provider will ask you questions about your health history, perform a scalp examination and run a few lab tests. Should we need to, we may also perform a scalp biopsy to gain further insight.
Step 2: Review Lab Results
Your lab and pathology results provide clues about what may be causing your hair loss, which helps us determine and formulate the best course of personalized treatment plan for you.
Step 3: Treatment & Results
You start the 6-month program and can expect to see initial results within 3 months, with more noticeable regrowth developing over 9 to 12 months.
Pre-Care & Post-Care Instructions
- Come to your consultation and treatment appointments with your hair freshly washed and dry, free of all hair products.
Your aftercare will depend on the type of treatment you receive and your progress.
- To complement your in-office treatments, we recommend using the take-home products, such as oral medications, serums, shampoos and conditioners prescribed, to further boost scalp health.
- Continue to receive maintenance treatments such as Derive In-office treatments, IV therapy, and hair PRP or Microneedling with PRP.
- Drink plenty of water and eat a balanced, nutritious diet.
Related Treatments
Working Together for Women’s Health
The Well Westlake and Advanced Women’s Health & Surgery may be independent practices, but they share a common building for a common goal: making women’s lives better.
Each practice works synergistically with the other to provide the best holistic array of women’s health choices. Established by physicians who are also family (mother and daughters), and staffed with other skilled female physicians, our conjoined practices deliver the care you need—head to toe, inside and out.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on the cause of hair loss. We will perform a medical examination and possibly a scalp biopsy to determine the cause of your hair loss. Our hair restoration treatments are a good alternative to hair transplant surgery if your hair loss is caused by androgenic alopecia (caused by aging) or telogen effluvium (‘hair shock’ caused by stressors such as pregnancy, weight loss from GLP-1 medications, or viral infections such as COVID-19).
It takes 3 to 6 months to see visible improvements; however, it can take up to 12 months to see the full results.
Once you’ve completed your program for hair restoration in Cleveland, you may be a candidate for our maintenance treatments and topicals. You can continue to use our hair and scalp serums, as well as visit us for in-office treatments such as IV therapy, Derive In-office Treatments, PRP injections, or Microneedling with PRP at your convenience.
Yes, your hair restoration plan may include a combination of treatments in addition to oral medications and topical solutions.
Yes, our hair loss program works for both men and women. We customize your treatment plan based on your individual needs.
Though effective for some, a hair transplant procedure cannot guarantee that the grafts will survive implantation. This can lead to patchiness, especially as natural hair loss progresses around the transplanted follicles. As a result, some patients have to return for additional procedures to keep pace with genetic balding.
As a surgical procedure, a hair transplant is also inherently more invasive, taking several hours to complete and requiring additional healing time that may not fit with your busy schedule.
With our holistic, minimally invasive approach to hair restoration in Cleveland, we can support your strands with proven therapies that tackle hair loss at the root for lasting regrowth.
Though some turn to noninvasive pills as hair shedding increases, many supplements advertised to support hair health and growth do not contain enough of the vitamin or active ingredient to stimulate new hair growth. And while they might improve shine or texture, most synthetic supplements fail to address restoration on a follicular level.
However, at The Well Westlake, we offer a thoroughly tested oral compounded medication to combat hair loss. Thoughtfully developed by Dr. Gitiforooz, this highly effective supplement can be an excellent addition to your custom hair restoration program.
When you meet with our dermatology provider, we can identify the source of your hair loss and determine the optimal treatment plan, potentially including carefully curated nutritional supplements.
Your dedicated provider works with you to determine whether our hair restoration program fits your body and your goals.
When you come in for a consultation to discuss hair restoration in Cleveland, your dermatology provider asks questions about your medical history and hair goals. Then, we perform a thorough scalp examination and run some blood tests as needed. For some patients, we also conduct a scalp biopsy to better understand the underlying cause of hair loss.
Once your provider reviews your lab tests and other results, we can chart the treatment path that supports your lasting hair health.
Many patients can benefit from the regenerative effects of platelet-rich plasma therapy. However, before introducing it to your plan for hair restoration in Cleveland, your provider will check to confirm you are not experiencing any active scalp infections or inflammation.
Additionally, certain autoimmune conditions can limit the efficacy of PRP. We also rarely recommend PRP if you are pregnant or currently take blood-thinners. The quality of your platelet-rich plasma also changes as you age, so your provider will take this into consideration when recommending a path for hair restoration in Cleveland.
During your scalp examination, your provider also determines whether you are in the late stages of hair loss, with no visible follicles. You can think of it like pulling a plant out of the soil by its roots; you typically can’t regrow the plant once it’s uprooted. A lack of hair follicles means that there is no follicular activity for the growth factors in the PRP to stimulate.
Your experienced provider can revisit these contraindications during your consultation, so you feel confident and comfortable with your treatment plan.
DE|RIVE hair products use 100% natural, hormone-free, plant-derived ingredients to detoxify and nourish the scalp. These plant-based growth factors also boost the natural production of proteins essential to hair growth, working holistically to enhance hair and scalp health.
Unlike other hair treatments that rely on synthetic—and often ineffective—ingredients to keep you coming back for more, we only recommend trusted systems that work at the root to restore your hair naturally.
Depending on your scalp condition and biopsy results, our dermatology provider might recommend a 6-month DE|RIVE hair and scalp wellness system to support your hair restoration in Cleveland.
This treatment program includes in-office procedures at months 1, 2, 3, and 6 using Ultra+, an advanced ultrasound device that supports the application of concentrated DE|RIVE exosomes. The Ultra+ device provides precise scalp treatment using low-level radiofrequency (RF) energy and ultrasound therapy.
This technology:
- Enhances product penetration
- Stimulates the hair follicles
- Improves blood circulation to the scalp
- Reduces inflammation
Between these in-office treatments, we provide hair serums that you can take home and apply to the scalp each morning and night. The DE|RIVE serum dries, so you don’t have to worry about greasy-looking hair.
At The Well Westlake, we can also use platelet-rich plasma (PRP) to support patients’ lasting wellness outcomes, including hair restoration, in Cleveland.
After a blood draw, we place the sample in a centrifuge, spinning it to separate the PRP, which contains growth factors and healing components. Your expert provider then administers your PRP therapy through injections or, less frequently, the EvoPen microneedling device.
To harness the restorative properties already present in the blood, we reinject your own plasma, concentrated with essential platelets, directly into the scalp. The growth factors inside the PRP injection encourage cellular turnover and tissue regeneration, helping to shed dead cells and kick-start dormant follicles to renew hair growth.
If your provider recommends implementing PRP with the EvoPen, the microneedles create microscopic injuries, further stimulating your body’s healing process and promoting enhanced circulation to the scalp.
Whether administered via direct injection or microneedling, PRP therapies can reinvigorate the scalp, stimulating ongoing regeneration, density, and elongation. Your provider might recommend adding PRP to your DE|RIVE hair system to maintain ongoing hair quality and development.
In today’s fast-paced world, we often reach for the closest snack or beverage on hand. However, highly accessible and highly processed foods typically lack the nutrients we need to keep our systems running smoothly.
When our diets don’t include enough protein, iron, zinc, and other essential vitamins, our hair growth cycle may pause, putting new growth and additional length on hold.
If your consultation and lab tests indicate that a vitamin deficiency is contributing to your hair loss, your provider might recommend including regular IV infusions alongside your 6-month DE|RIVE hair restoration regimen.
Our carefully curated IV therapies infuse key vitamins directly into your bloodstream, bypassing time-consuming digestion for more immediate results. Once we balance your nutrition with IV therapy, you should notice stronger, healthier hair.
