Q: Dr. Bernstein, is a follicular unit hair transplant, the way you perform it, very painful?
A: We perform our hair transplant procedures using long-acting, local anesthesia, so after the initial injections, the patient doesn’t experience any pain or discomfort.
The local anesthesia (a combination of Lidocaine and Marcaine) lasts about 4-5 hours. For long sessions, we [...]











“Over the past 10 years we’ve developed a new procedure called follicular unit transplantation, where hair is transplanted exactly the way it grows,” said Dr. Robert Bernstein [...] This new technique replaces the plugs — groups of hairs inserted into round holes in the scalp — used in the early days of hair transplant procedures. It is now known that hair grows in groups of one to four hairs.

