Choosing a hair restoration physician can be confusing and the process should not be taken lightly.

Your choice of physician will determine whether you end up with a natural looking transplant or one that is very obvious.

I have compiled the following list of hints to help make that choice a little more straight forward. more… »

Patients who are concerned about hair loss often encounter a confusing maze of information about their condition and all the cures for it.

The quality, accuracy and reliability of some hair loss information that is in the public arena is a major concern to me.

Unfortunately, I see too many patients who have taken the wrong course of action to treat their hair loss because they have been seduced by promotional material for miracle hair loss cures.

A lot of these patients, after being seduced by market hype, have gained unrealistic expectations of achieving vigorous new hair growth from a non-medical hair loss solution.

The sad reality is that their expectations are never met.

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Can you imagine exchanging your plasma television set for more hair on that thinning area of your scalp?

This is exactly what the majority of men with hair loss said they would do when polled for the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS).

The survey for the ISHRS, the world’s leading medical authority on hair loss, finds that some 57 per cent of 2,338 men with hair loss said they would be willing to give up something in exchange for hair.

Among the material possessions cited that men would give up were an expensive car, a plasma television set, a lap top computer, a stereo system or even a boat. more… »

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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