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Baldiness

May 11th, 2008

Boobs vs. Baldness

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Did you know that for every hair transplant being performed in the United States, there are 5 breast augmentation surgeries being performed.
Now I know a lot of men, from all walks of life. White collar professionals, blue collar workers, students, bald headed, hairy…you name […]

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May 4th, 2007

Baldness Detection Critical to Successful Transplant Surgery

That’s the argument put forth by Drs. Bernstein and Rassman of Bernstein Medical in the latest issue of the journal Hair Transplant Forum. The journal is published by The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS), and the lead article this time around is “Densitometry and Video-microscopy.”
In the article the doctors argue that a close, […]

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January 12th, 2007

Body Hair Transplants?

So I see this news item about the DermHair Clinic that touts a “new technique” for dealing with hair loss. I almost skip over it, because I’m getting a bit numb to the miracle breakthroughs designed to part individuals from their money with ever increasing creativity. (The cynicism isn’t new, it’s always been there.) But […]

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October 21st, 2006

Bald Blog #4: Hair Loss Information

Hair Transplant Physicians are invading the Blog-o-sphere! Hair Loss Information is written by Dr. William R. Rassman and Dr. Jae P. Pak, two LA-based physicians. They use a similar approach to Dr. Bernstein at Hair Transplant Blog, Q & A, though they seem to embrace a slightly broader range of topics just as the availability […]

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September 27th, 2006

Bald Blogs #3: Hair Transplant Blog

One of my regular Bald reads is the Hair Transplant Blog by Dr. Robert Bernstein. The Hair Transplant Blog is a semi-regular set of Q & A posts from the doctor. For example, the most recent in on stress induced hair loss vs. genetic hair loss.
Now, this may surprise a few of you who have […]

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August 11th, 2006

New Link: Hair Transplant Blog

I’ve added a new link to the sidebar: The Bernstein Medical Hair Transplant Blog. The blog is run by Dr. Robert Bernstein, Associate Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Columbia University in New York. Bernstein posts in an easy to understand Q & A style covering hair transplants from A to Z.
Here’s the best recommendation I […]

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August 1st, 2006

Hair Transplant History

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 […]

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