Yes. Every new relationship begins with The First Conversation — complimentary, fifteen minutes, by video or in person, with no commitment and no rush.
Tuesday and Wednesday, 11 AM to 7 PM, by appointment. My book is intentionally small and every appointment is held for a specific person.
No. Please begin with The First Conversation.
Sola Salon Studios, Suite #5, 1010 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201. Park in the LAX garage, entered from Wakefield Street — the thirty-minute spots out front are enforced. From Floor L, take the elevator up and I am in Suite #5.
Black folx across the full gender and sexuality spectrum navigating medical hair loss — chemotherapy and radiation, alopecia areata, totalis and universalis, scarring conditions, traction damage, and other clinical thinning. Masculine-of-center clients are served in the same room and to the same standard. Caregivers, partners, and family are welcome at every appointment.
A custom unit is 90 business days plus transit — real craftsmanship rather than a shelf. A rapid unit on a modified stock foundation is 6 to 10 business days plus transit. A ready-to-wear unit is fitted and finished the same day.
If you need coverage sooner than a custom build allows, we pair them: something you wear home today, with the custom unit already in production. Your firm ready date is confirmed with you at order.
Then we do both. You leave with a ready-to-wear unit fitted the same day, and the custom build runs in parallel. Nobody waits without hair. This is the honest use of my clinic when there is a diagnosis clock, and it is the right recommendation more often than either path alone.
The figures I can give you are starting points, because the final number depends on the base, the hair, and the complexity of the build. I quote the whole of it in the room. The First Conversation is complimentary and costs you nothing to find out.
Cherry financing is available, and if cost is a barrier, say so in the booking form. I would rather know early.
I am a TRICARE-Authorized Provider and I bill TRICARE directly. I am also in-network with the Johns Hopkins US Family Health Plan. Every other insurer receives an itemized superbill that you submit for out-of-network reimbursement.
I verify your benefits before we meet and tell you plainly what I find. I do not predict what a carrier will decide. One thing that matters: your prescription needs to read "cranial prosthesis," not "wig."
Original Medicare does not cover cranial prostheses. Some supplemental plans reimburse against a superbill, and an FSA or HSA can often be used. Financing is available through Cherry.
Not a pathway I offer today. Your state Medicaid office is the right place to ask about coverage.
Yes. I keep a Master Texture Archive of thirty patterns, half of them in Type 3 and Type 4, in raw virgin hair. Your archive code travels with your order to the fabricator, so what arrives is matched to what you brought me rather than to a catalog.
No glue and no tape. Retention is flat medical-grade silicone against skin — it holds through contact, the way a silicone phone case grips a table. Nothing anchors into your remaining hair, and nothing adheres to a healing scalp.
No. It is durable medical equipment, built to your measurements and coded under HCPCS A9282. That code is why it can be billed to insurance, and it is why the unit is made the way it is.
That is a question for your physician or a dermatologist, and I would rather you get a real answer than my guess. I restore hair, I do not diagnose. Once you have an answer — or even while you are waiting on one — I can walk you through what restoration would look like.
My practice is restoration: custom cranial prostheses and medical wigs. Color on your own growing hair is not something I offer, and I am glad to recommend a colorist.
Color applied to a prosthesis is a different thing and is part of my work. There are four protocols. Every one is colored in Oligo Professionnel with K18 bond protection through the service, and your unit goes home with a full-size epres bond treatment.
I am a Student of Trichology with the IAT, and that is a credential rather than a service. There is no standalone trichological assessment or scalp therapy here. For anything happening at your scalp that has not been identified, a dermatologist is the right first call.
Not at this time. I am glad to recommend a colleague who specializes in protective styling.
All care happens in person, at the studio in Arlington. There is no remote or shipped program, no mailed measurement kit, and no virtual fitting. Everything depends on measurement and fit at the scalp.
Not yet, and I would rather say that plainly than dress it up. This clinic is in its first year and I have no body of completed work to show you. What I can show you is the credentials, the specifications, the Master Texture Archive, and the room itself.
