Q: What’s the story with Joe Biden’s hair? A: Joe Biden — former Senator from Delaware and now the Vice President of the United States — apparently had a hair transplant many years ago using the older hair restoration techniques. This included not only transplanting hair in large plugs (corn rows), but using them to [...]

Q: Can dermabrasion help eliminate the circular edges of raised plug grafts caused by old hair transplants? Is this similar to the suturing and excision look? A: Although dermabrasion can flatten elevated edges, it will not eliminate the round, white circular scars that results from old punch graft hair transplants. The scarring in these procedures [...]

Q: I had several prior hair transplants that left me with a pluggy look, I was hoping to re-utilize the removed hair and re-implant it, perhaps in the front as a new, more recessed hairline. It is possible? A: The hair from the excised grafts is always re-implanted. The grafts that are removed are dissected [...]

Q: Can I have plugs removed by FUE (follicular unit extraction) which would probably result in less scarring – but would probably take more time and be more expensive. A: Follicular units in a plug are already compressed and scarred down. Trying to remove them individually will result in a worse cosmetic outcome as the [...]

Q: I had an old hair transplant and I’m hoping to remove these plugs and of course am concerned how much additional scarring would result. I’m wondering if removal of the total hair plugs (which are perhaps 2 or 3 mm in diameter) by coring them out would result in a lot of additional scarring. [...]