Monday, October 23, 2006

Hair Transplants are Natural Looking

I just returned from the ISHRS meeting in San Diego. Hair restoration surgery is incredibly different from 10 years ago and the results are simply amazing. Undetectable hairlines and no evidence of plugginess are now achievable in most patients. There is so much more understanding of the causes of hair loss, diseases of the scalp, and the normal progression of hair loss. We have added hair transplantation to our services at MetropolitanMD and I have recruited a very experienced team of technicians to help with our procedures. I enjoyed the meeting very much for the hospitality and enthusiasm of the very experienced hair transplant surgeons who attended from around the world. The collegiality and comraderie that doctors at the ISHRS exhibit toward one another is only matched by the doctors at the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. Physicians are good people. The climate of restricitons of payments, insurance company antagonism, and medico-legal intimidation has made doctors increasingly less friendly toward each other and less willing to share knowledge. In spite of this we persevere as what I judge to be the most ethical and empathic profession that exists. And ISHRS and AACS exhibit kindness toward each other and concern for patient welfare to a greater extent than I have experienced elsewhere. I am looking forward to expanding our hair transplantation program.

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