Q: Dr. Bernstein, I remember Senator William Proxmire. He was one of the first sort of high-profile people who had a hair transplant probably, what, thirty years ago, and to be honest with you, it wasn’t all that great. It looked kind of funny. Have we made any progress in the last twenty-five, thirty years? [...]

Q: I had a hair transplant of over 600 grafts using Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) to my frontal hairline and the frontal part of my scalp. The procedure was done less than a year ago by another doctor. Since then I have had persistent pimples and redness in the area that the grafts were placed. [...]

Q: When a donor strip is taken out during a hair transplant and separated under the microscope, you can read on the internet that there is a wastage of grafts (about 15%), because of those unseen telogen hairs. What do you think about that and how does it affect the hair restoration? A: The Telogen [...]

Q: What is Follicular Unit Transplantation and how is it different from Follicular Unit Extraction? A: Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation, called FUT for short, is a procedure where hair is transplanted in the naturally occurring groups of one to four hair follicles. These individual groups of hair, or units, are dissected from a single donor [...]

Q: How are recipient sites made? A: At Bernstein Medical – Center for Hair Restoration we use a series of custom made, ultra-fine blades to create recipient sites. The blades differ in size by only one tenth of a millimeter and range from 0.6mm for one-hair follicular units to 1.2mm for 4-hair follicular units. At [...]