Mr Taleski, who is among the millions of Australian men with hair loss, said the scalp reduction surgery he had during the early 1990s was a futile attempt to cover up hereditary baldness.

The experience left him very wary of the hair restoration industry.

However, after a lot of time and research and an eventual meeting with Dr Jennifer Martinick, whose research into hair replacement techniques was making a positive difference for many burns victims and others with scalp damage, his faith in the ability to treat his condition was restored.

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Eyelash transplantation has generated a lot of media and public interest in recent months.

The likely catalyst for this attention is an eyelash transplantation workshop hosted by the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery in Los Angeles, California in October 2006.

As the main presenter at this workshop I was able to show fellow physicians how the refined surgical techniques which have given natural looking hair transplants to thousands of Australian men can be applied to create lustrous thick eyelashes.

Eyelash transplants, performed under local anaesthetic, are created by harvesting hair follicles from the back of the scalp and then transplanting them into the eyelid.
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