Dr. Paul McAndrews

11/20/2025

Hair transplants are powerful, but not magic. Every patient should know the limitations & realistic expectations to make an informed decision before surgery.

1. Use Preventative Medical Therapies
2. Use a Technique that Maximizes Hair Graft Survival
3. Conservatively Use the Good Genetic Hair Wisely

Every surgeon makes a significant impact on how successful your hair restoration will be.

Know the basics, do research on the physician performing your surgery, make an informed decision, and receive artful precision, with unparalleled results on your hair restoration journey.

11/14/2025

Bring your hair back to a fully natural and healthy look.

Dr. Paul J. McAndrews is the hair restoration expert, not just because of his medical education & international leadership, but also because he has the artistic ability to envision how your hair will change over time.

Dr. Paul J. McAndrews creates a result that looks great now, and more importantly, later.



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11/11/2025

What Are the Best Medications for Hair Loss?

There are only 2 FDA-approved (for efficacy) medications for men:
Oral Finasteride &
Topical Minoxidil

And only 1 FDA-approved (for efficacy) medication for women:
Topical Minoxidil

There are 4 off-label FDA approved medications Dermatologists use to treat hair loss. Off-label means they’ve been FDA-approved for a different symptom (ie: hypertension), but we’re using it for a different diagnosis (ie: androgenetic alopecia):
Dutasteride
Oral Minoxidil
Oral Spironolactone
Topical Finasteride

There are a few adjunct & emerging therapies:
Ketoconazole (Nizoral)
Topical Dutasteride
Prostaglandin Analogs (Bimatoprost)

Hair loss is a chronic condition, and treatments require careful medical supervision to ensure correct dosing, to minimize side effects & track effectiveness.

Beware of scam products! There are numerous companies claiming their products stop or reverse hair loss - they do not. They are only FDA-approved for safety (not efficacy) - a big difference.

Learn more: https://hairgrowthdoctor.com/best-hair-loss-medications/

11/06/2025

Quality ALWAYS comes before quantity in our practice.

Unlike clinics that schedule multiple hair transplant surgeries in a single day, I perform only one surgery per day. This ensures that my team and I dedicate our full attention to every detail of your procedure and we can achieve the four vital goals outlined by The McAndrews Method.

The McAndrews Method achieves 4 vital goals for a successful hair transplant:
✅ A result that looks completely natural and virtually undetectable
✅ The highest rates of graft survival and vigorous growth
✅ A result that looks great today—and will continue to look great years from now
✅ A conservative, thoughtful approach that ensures long-term success with incredible results.

My focus has always been: combining artistry, medical expertise, and precision to deliver results that restore your hair. My goal has always been: Informed decision, artful precision, unparalleled results.

10/31/2025

Honored to be the Hair Transplant expert & author for the recent Dermatologic Surgery medical book edited by one of my USC mentors and professors Dr. Richard Bennett.

The purpose of this medical book is to provide medical students practical knowledge in dermatological surgery, such as hair transplants, and it will be essential reading for all dermatology residents.

10/30/2025

The best time to prevent hair loss? Before it starts.

10/27/2025

What's the difference between FUE and FUT?

Learn the medical difference simply explained here:

There are 4 main steps to both FUE & FUT hair transplants: 1. Excision of the Donor Tissue (either FUE punch excision or FUT strip excision) 2. Dissection of Donor Grafts 3. Making Recipient Incisions 4. Planting Grafts into Incisions The only difference between FUE & FUT is the 1st step; removing t...

10/23/2025

Understanding your hair growth cycle is the first step toward restoring it. Let's talk about it!

10/21/2025

The difference is in the details, and in the results!

10/20/2025

This “Before & After” successful hair transplant with only 1,600 grafts is an example of Dr. Paul J. McAndrews guiding philosophy:

Follow nature as closely as possible to create a natural-looking hairline that doesn’t look like a hair transplant at all.

It’s a matter of what we do, what we don’t do, and the person who does it. The result? A naturally restored head of hair.

10/17/2025

“Does Creatine Cause Hair Loss?” is a question I often hear from patients & athletes. The short answer is “no”, creatine has not been proven to cause hair loss.

🔬Creatine is a naturally occurring compound made by your body & helps produce ATP, which is the main source of energy for your muscles.

🔬The strongest scientific evidence was a recent 12-week double-blind study of resistance-trained men. It measures levels of DHT, the ratio of DHT to testosterone, and hair growth metrics. The results showed that creatine played no role in hair loss, and most dermatologists & endocrinologists agree.

🔬The biggest benefit influence on hair loss is genetics and DHat. DHT is a byproduct of testosterone and it plays a major role in androgenetic alopecia.

🔬Ita safe to use creatine, but different for supplemental testosterone. Supplemental testosterone definitely adds to the progression of male pattern hair loss, which makes it even more critical to take Finasteride to block the conversion of testosterone into DHT (which causes the miniaturization of the hair follicles).

👨‍🔬If you’re experiencing hair loss, speak with a dermatologist to explore all the possible causes & a proper diagnosis, and know that creatine is not the culprit.

10/13/2025

A Dermatologist is a medical doctor who's formally trained in a residency to diagnose, treat and perform surgery on skin and hair follicles. All the medical doctors at the forefront of hair transplants (both FUE & FUT) were experienced in Dermatology.

In 1939, a Japanese doctor, Dr. Okuda, performed follicular unit excisions with the exact size punch 0.8-1.0 mm punch excision tool presently used by doctors who perform FUE (follicular unit excision) transplants today.

The first hair transplant in the U.S. was in 1952 by Dermatologist Dr. Norman Orentreich, who used a 4mm circular punch excision device (a pluggy “doll’s hair” look). Dermatologists started using smaller punch excisions and quadrisecting the tissue to make it less pluggy & more natural.

The first FUT (follicular unit transplantation) surgery was done in the early 1990's by Dermatologist Dr. Bobby Limmer, who created the linear strip method, using a stereoscopic microscope to dissect the hair grafts into their natural groupings of 1-4 hairs.
FUT was a huge advancement in graft survival by avoiding the blind dissection of FUE.

In the early 2000's, history repeated itself, and doctors started using a 1mm circular punch (same size punch as Dr. Okuda in '39). Many doctors falsely claimed it was "scarless" (it creates small circular scars), and FUE still blindly transects the hair follicle (vs FUT with full visualization).

Dermatologists are the masterminds in the field of hair loss & hair transplants, were the pioneers of both FUE & FUT, and continue to be at the forefront in the advancement of hair surgery.

A hair transplant is medical surgery that should be performed by a medical doctor specifically trained in this specialty. Choose the right surgeon with the right training & credentials for your surgery.