Reviewed by Dr Eugene Lim | MBBS (NUS, Singapore), Dr Cindy’s Medical Aesthetics, Singapore. Fully registered with the Singapore Medical Council, practising alongside Dr Cindy Yang. Most people who come in about hair loss have already tried something. A shampoo that promised thickening, a serum bought after an advertisement, a supplement recommended by a friend, […]
Reviewed by Dr Eugene Lim | MBBS (NUS, Singapore), Dr Cindy’s Medical Aesthetics, Singapore. Fully registered with the Singapore Medical Council, practising alongside Dr Cindy Yang. Most people who come in about hair loss have already tried something. A shampoo that promised thickening, a serum bought after an advertisement, a supplement recommended by a friend, […]
Reviewed by Dr Cindy Yang | Founder and Medical Director, Dr Cindy’s Medical Aesthetics, Singapore. Practising aesthetic medicine since 2006. Regenera Activa is a single-session treatment for pattern hair loss that uses tissue taken from your own scalp. A small sample is harvested from an area that is relatively resistant to thinning, mechanically processed into […]
Reviewed by Dr Eugene Lim | MBBS (NUS, Singapore), Dr Cindy’s Medical Aesthetics, Singapore. Fully registered with the Singapore Medical Council, practising alongside Dr Cindy Yang. There is a category of hair loss treatment that sits between buying a product and having surgery, and it is the part of the field patients understand least. The […]
Reviewed by Dr Grace Su | MBBS, General Practitioner in Aesthetic and Lifestyle Medicine, Dr Cindy’s Medical Aesthetics, Singapore. When a woman raises hair loss, the explanation offered is often hormonal. Post-pregnancy hormones, perimenopause, the contraceptive pill, stress, thyroid. Hormones are frequently part of the picture and sometimes the whole of it. But they are […]
Reviewed by Dr Eugene Lim | MBBS, General Practitioner in Aesthetic and Lifestyle Medicine, Dr Cindy’s Medical Aesthetics, Singapore. Some hair supplements work, for specific reasons, in specific people. Others do very little, for a reason that may have nothing to do with the quality of the product and everything to do with mechanism. Many […]
Reviewed by Dr Eugene Lim | MBBS, General Practitioner in Aesthetic and Lifestyle Medicine, Dr Cindy’s Medical Aesthetics, Singapore. Hair loss can be grouped into several broad categories, and understanding which pattern yours resembles can help determine what to do next. Some types of hair loss recover on their own, some require an underlying medical […]
A patient arrives with one deep, painful lump on the jawline that has been there eleven days. It has not come to a head, squeezing has made it angrier, and there is an event on Saturday. She has read that a clinic can inject it and settle it in a day or two, and she […]
The number most patients have read is three to four months. It is accurate for one part of the face and misleading for the rest. A patient treated for jaw slimming who expects the effect to fade at month three will be surprised when it holds past month five. A patient treated for nose flare […]
Most patients arrive at a Rejuran consultation having read that it is a “salmon DNA injection” without knowing what that means clinically. Some expect it to fill a line the way a dermal filler would. Others expect it to lift in the way that treatments such as Ultherapy or Thermage can. A third group has […]
