Hair Transplants - Not The Plugs Of The Past

By Author: Travis M. Keeler
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When you think of hair transplants what pops into your head? Strange-looking dots on some balding person's head? Rip-offs? Misleading advertising? Is a hair transplant something you would never in a million years do to yourself, much less pay thousands of dollars for?

Well times have changed. The science of hair transplants has come a long way, baby. Just ask Dave Bratton, a married 48-year-old carpenter from New York City, who always had a pretty full head of hair. He was the last guy you'd think of who would ever even consider hair transplants or even think about hair transplant surgery. But he was concerned with his looks, there's no doubting that and even though his Dad was mostly bald on top except for that tell-tale, u-shaped ring around the back of his head that he combed-over the top, David had a nice head of hair. It was one thing his wife always loved about him.

But David knew enough to know that you inherit your hair loss tendencies from your mother's side of the family and his mother's hair was perfectly ...
... fine, hardly even thinning at all, so he was feeling pretty confident about never having to think about hair transplants or hair transplant surgery like some of his balding friends. That is, until he hit his 40's and he noticed his hairline receding at his temples and around his forehead. After that he became obsessed with how much hair he had or didn't have and every day felt the top of his head to make sure all his hair was there and watched as his hairline receded more and more around his forehead. Around his 48th birthday he happened to read an article online about how hair transplants had changed and improved both scientifically and artistically over the years. He almost clicked right past it but something caught his eye and then the idea of a hair transplant didn't seem so far-fetched.

After clicking around online, David learned that the technology and skill used in hair transplants had vastly improved. He found some hair transplant surgery doctor's Websites who had described their newest advances in the procedures, their extensive training, board-certifications and even national and world-wide hair transplant associations that test and certify Medical Doctors who specialize in hair transplant surgery and provide hair transplants.

So, David made an appointment with a few hair transplant surgery facilities in his hometown and was surprised to find that there were several available. He had no idea how prevalent hair transplant surgery had become! At the first one he visited, he saw several men in the waiting room with different degrees of hair loss, similar to his and one guy who had lost most of the hair on the top/back part of his head. It was a huge bald spot. One man caught him staring and said, My hair used to look just like that before my hair transplant! and he whipped out some pictures of how his hair looked before and David saw that this guy's hair had been receding far back from his face at the time the pictures were shot. But it didn't look that way now! His hair looked perfectly perfect all around his face especially and at the top of his head too (in fact, when he first saw the guy sitting in the waiting room, David didn't know WHY he was there at all!).

The guy introduced himself as Mark, a 42-year-old accountant, and explained that this hair transplant doctor whose waiting room they were in, performs a surgical technique called Follicular Unit Extraction where each hair follicle is removed and replaced under a microscope so that the end result is perfectly natural-looking, instead of big spotty plugs. Mark said that if you show the surgeon a picture of yourself with your full head of hair they can mimic your personal hairline exactly. David couldn't wait to get started talking about his hair transplant surgery with this doctor and didn't care at all how much money his new hair transplant would cost. He knew that having is hair back would be priceless!

Author Bio:

Travis M. Keeler is a hair loss expert with specialized knowledge of nonsurgical hair replacement and hair transplant surgery. For more information about the opportunities and pitfalls of hair replacement, please visit: Hair Replacement Video.