RESEARCH ARTICLE
Hairy Concerns: Use of Instructional/Informational Sheets for Assistance with Disorders of Hair
Craig G. Burkhart*, 1, Craig N. Burkhart2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 2
First Page: 77
Last Page: 82
Publisher ID: TODJ-2-77
DOI: 10.2174/1874372200802010077
Article History:
Received Date: 20/05/2008Revision Received Date: 05/06/2008
Acceptance Date: 05/06/2008
Electronic publication date: 25/6/2008
Collection year: 2008
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Hair serves as a social sign of gender, age, status, values, and group membership. Hair is a major part of one's self-identity, and central to one's feeling of personal attractiveness. Treating a patient with hair loss and/or hair issues is not easy because of psychosocial overtones and patients' distress and body image concerns. In this paper, several common hair diseases will be discussed in consort with sample patient instructional sheets. They include trichorrhexis nodosa, telogen effluvium, pattern alopecia, alopecia areata, excess facial hair in females, and male pattern baldness. This paper therefore presents a template from which individual physicians can assess whether any portion of the material is worth being incorporated into their individual practices.
