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  • noun A professional who helps people with hair or scalp problems; a practitioner of trichology.

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Examples

  • A dermatologist is trained in trichology whereas the so called trichologist has no formal medical training in skin diseases (dermatology).

    Trusted.MD Network - Empowering Healthcare Relationships 2009

  • 'trichologist', go ahead and don't bother to think if he / she is a fully qualified doctor!

    Trusted.MD Network - Empowering Healthcare Relationships 2009

  • Washing your hair for three minutes will help ensure its long-term health, according to trichologist Frank Cunningham.

    Three-minute fix ... hair-washing 2011

  • • Frank Cunningham is a trichologist based in Ashton-under-Lyne, and a member of the Institute of Trichologists; trichology.co.uk

    Three-minute fix ... hair-washing 2011

  • "One hundred strokes is too much," says Christopher Mackin, a trichologist someone who studies hair at the Gil Ferrer Salon, in New York City.

    CNN.com 2011

  • As a last resort, a derm or trichologist hair and scalp expert can use precision laser hair therapy, which relies on low-level light beams to gently stimulate growth.

    ABC News: Top Stories 2011

  • This probably reveals more about the reasons behind him becoming a farmer rather than a trichologist, and why people where I come from tend to live at least five miles away from each other, but I'm still hoping it isn't true.

    WalesOnline - Home 2010

  • Wells owns A1 Wigs in Hayden and is a trichologist, an expert in hair and hair loss.

    Boise Weekly Nathaniel hoffman 2010

  • I went to a trichologist (a hair specialist, not an M.D.) who tested my blood (all fine), told me some thinning was natural for a woman in her mid-40s and sent me home with expensive shampoo and a serum to use on my scalp.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • I've seen a trichologist and he's told me the hair I have left is dead - I may as well chop it all off - it's like candyfloss.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

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