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 [...]

Q: I have read about something called “tumescent anesthesia” but didn’t understand what it is. What exactly is it? A: Tumescent techniques were first popularized in liposuction surgery where large quantities of fluid containing adrenalin were injected into the person’s fat layer to decrease bleeding before the fat was literally sucked out of the body. [...]