How Dr. Bernstein Became A Hair Transplant Surgeon

"I did my dermatology residency at Albert Einstein and when I was chief resident, I did a bunch of hair transplants. I had some of the patients after I graduated, come to my place because we hadn't seen some of the results. I was actually stunned when I saw the results, we were using the old hair plugs and this was in the 80s. I swore I would never do another hair transplant. Then I joined this staff in Columbia and for years I really saw a lot of people getting really bad results with hair transplants. Then in 1994, I went to the Toronto hair meeting and I heard that things had started to change. Bill Rassman was doing these large sessions with micrografts and I was really shocked because I thought the results were so good. So I met him after the meeting and he invited me out to his clinic in California and I was just really blown away. And then I had this idea of using follicular units..."

• What is Follicular Unit Excision?
• Simultaneous Robotic Incision and Manual Extraction
• Can Grafts Fall Out After A Hair Transplant?
• How Young Is Too Young To Have A Hair Transplant?
• How Do You Determine Who Is A Candidate For A Hair Transplant?