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Hair Transplant History

by Bald Man on August 1st, 2006

Dr. Robert Bernstein has a piece on his blog today, about the history of Hair Transplants.

Over the years the grafts have gotten smaller and smaller. So where in the ‘60s and ‘70s they were the size of pencil erasers, they gradually decreased in size until doctors were performing hair transplants using just a few hairs at a time. The major breakthrough came in the mid 1990s when we realized that hair doesn’t grow individually but grows in little tiny groups and these groups are called follicular units.

Makes sense why those stray hairs on my chest or shoulder always come in small tufts. (Perhaps that’s information than you wanted to know about your humble host. Sorry.) Still I’m trying to picture my head with eraser sized plugs. Hmmm… This may require a police sketch artist and a Wooly Willy.

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