Susan Taylor of the Perelman School of Medicine said Black patients experiencing hair loss are more likely to have central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, a condition many practitioners are unfamiliar with. “For Black women in particular, they’re told, ‘Stop your relaxers; don’t straighten your hair,’” she said. “And then they say to me, ‘But Dr. Taylor, I always wear my hair natural. I don’t relax my hair.’”