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What Medications are Used During Hair Transplant and are they Safe During Pregnancy?

June 2nd, 2008

Q: Is it necessary to take medications before, during, or after the hair transplant? Will these medications affect pregnancy?
A: It is not necessary to take any medication for a hair transplant other than the local anesthesia used during the procedure.
Although I would not have a hair transplant during pregnancy, the procedure will have no effect [...]

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Is a Hair Transplant Painful and What Kind of Anesthesia do You Use?

August 10th, 2006

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 [...]

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Do You Use Anesthesia During Hair Transplant?

October 5th, 2005

Q: Will I be unconscious during the hair transplant procedure and do you use general anesthesia?
A: All of the surgical hair restoration procedures at Bernstein Medical are performed under local anesthesia. The fact that general anesthesia is not needed is what makes hair transplant procedures – even though they are long – very safe.
Patients are [...]

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Dr. Bernstein and Hair Transplant Patient Featured on NBC’s ‘Today’ with Matt Lauer

June 2nd, 2005

“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.