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| Creating
a Natural Hairline
By
Ron
Shapiro, MD
Creating
a natural hairline is one of the most important elements
of a successful hair transplant. Our ability to create
naturalness has dramatically increased in recent years
due to the development of more refined techniques.
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Follicular
Unit Grafts vs. Small Mini Grafts
By
Ron
Shapiro, MD
All
forms of hair restoration surgery involve redistribution
of existing hair follicles. No form of surgery will provide
more hair follicles than those that currently exist. Therefore
the success of hair restoration surgery for any patient
depends on optimizing the cosmetic redistribution of an
inherently limited number of hairs.
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Guidelines
for Hair Transplantation in The Young Patient
By
Ivan
S. Cohen, MD
The young man
who is losing his hair is a challenge to the hair transplant
surgeon. He is often extremely distressed about his follicular
future and the initial consultation must balance the patient's
emotions with the reality of his hair loss. Some surgeons
may deal with this situation by adhering to a minimum
age policy.
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Hairline
Placement
By
Bradley
Wolf, MD
Any physician who transplants
hair should be an expert in hairline construction. While
we can create a naturally shaped hairline in one session,
it is often necessary to adjust the shape and position
in future sessions to meet the patient's desires. The
cardinal sin is to place the hairline too low.
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Hair
Transplantation for Men With Advanced Degrees of Hair
Loss
By
Jeffrey
S. Epstein, MD
In the field of surgical hair restoration,
there is probably no greater challenge than treating the
individual with advanced male pattern hair loss. Recent
developments in follicular unit grafting and recognition
of the natural appearance of the transplanted frontal
forelock have now made it possible to obtain excellent,
undetectable results in these patients.
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Hair
Transplantation in Women
By
Jeffrey
S. Epstein, MD
The role of hair transplantation in
men is well established. In women, the procedure is much
less common, but has a definite role in both the management
of female pattern hair loss and the repair of alopecic
scarring and hairline distortion as a result of prior
facial plastic surgery.
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Is Today's
Hair Transplant Going To Look Good Tomorrow?
By
Paul
J. McAndrews, MD
The
medical and surgical treatments for androgenetic alopecia
have improved greatly over the recent years; however there
is still no perfect treatment. Today, one should not be
able to notice who has had, or who has not had, a hair
transplant.
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Logic
of Follicular Unit Transplantation, The
By
Robert
M. Bernstein, MD; William
Rassman, MD
Follicular
Unit Transplantation is a method of hair restoration surgery
where hair is transplanted exclusively in its naturally
occurring, individual follicular units. The evolution
and rational for follicular unit transplantation will
be discussed, as well as the logic for the various techniques
used in its implementation.
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On The
Origin of Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation
By
Robert
M. Bernstein, MD
It
is wonderful to see that follicular unit hair transplantation
has reached such a level of importance that a lengthy
commentary has been devoted to assigning credit to its
origins. From the tone of his dissertation, however, Dr.
Marritt seems to be defending Dr. Limmer from an enemy
camp.
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Recreating
The Crown Whorl
By
Robert
H. True, MD
A great hair transplant can accomplished
when the surgeon is able to appreciate and reproduce the
subtle variations in the architecture of the hair on different
parts of the scalp. Appropriately, much has been written
about reconstruction of the hairline zone, as it is widely
appreciated that this is critical to achieving a "natural"
result.
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State
of The Art Surgical Technique: Follicular Unit Hair Grafting
By
Jeffrey
S. Epstein, MD
The goal in hair restoration is natural
appearing results. Improvements in the field of hair transplantation
have developed with this goal in mind. The most recent
development is the follicular unit grafting technique,
which relies upon microscopic dissection to produce grafts
each containing a follicular unit, the natural bundling
of 1 to 4 hairs, with a minimal amount of non-hair-bearing
surrounding skin.
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