If your Dad (or your Mom’s dad) had male pattern balding, every shower can involve a sidelong glance into the drain to see if there are more hairs in there today than yesterday. Unfortunately, male pattern hair loss is genetic. But that doesn’t mean you simply have to suffer bald spots or severely thinning areas. […]
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When patients come see us for laser hair removal, they wonder why we can’t remove all of their hair permanently with a single laser treatment. It’s complicated. We humans are a hairy lot — each of us having around five million hairs on our bodies. Men have a few hundred thousand more than women. But
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If you’re reading Dr. Barrera’s blog, you’ve probably heard of hyaluronic acid. Hyaluronic acid is the basis of “naturally derived” dermal fillers such as Restylane. These fillers get that designation because hyaluronic acid occurs naturally in the human body. In fact, it occurs in just about every living thing. In humans, it acts as a
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You’ve probably heard of platelet-rich plasma. Professional athletes have been putting the power of their blood platelets to work helping them recover after injury or surgery for years. But what if you put the same platelets to work ending your thinning hair and actually regrowing it? Why wouldn’t the same healing and regenerative powers work
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In Dr. Barrera’s Houston practice, we’ll often have patients come in seeking a facelift, blepharoplasty, or a brow lift to turn back the aging showing itself on their faces. But what about just below that jawline? Sure, a facelift will usually address your jowls and jawline, but did you see the banding and extensive loose
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Intense pulsed light was first introduced to the medical community in 1996 to treat treatment-resistant facial port-wine stains in Germany. In the 24 years since, technology has continued to improve where now IPL produces results equal to those of lasers, with a wider range of applications. At Dr. Barrera’s, we utilize IPL to treat age
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Our body has an amazing capacity to heal wounds. It does this by using blood platelets to first clot the wound. From there, the platelets have various growth factors that facilitate tissue regeneration. New collagen is produced and sent to the wound to rebuild the skin. These same mechanisms are the goal of many aesthetic
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Resolutions are all the rage this time of year. You vow to stop wasting hundreds of hours on mindless social media, scrolling through pictures of other people’s perfect lives. You vow to stop watching reality TV shows about obnoxious, talentless people. You vow to stop eating fast food. You vow to read 50 books in
Humans are known to incorrectly perceive situations. Sometimes we simply get our information wrong. It could be taking something a person said the wrong way. It could be reading too much into an offhand email. Or it could be thinking a person is sad or tired based on your reading of their droopy, hanging eyelids.
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As you’ve seen in prior blogs, Dr. Barrera is a big proponent of helping his patients get their hair back with FUE hair transplants. But he’s not above getting rid of hair, as well, at least not the unwanted variety. Laser hair removal is one of our most popular non-surgical procedures. And winter in Houston
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