Dr. Mejia was interviewed by NBC's channel 5 news...   "Transplanted hair comes from the back of your head and that hair is more genetically insensitive to the hormone that causes hair loss, which is EHT.  So when you take hair from the back of the head and move them to the front they continue to grow as if they were growing to the back of the head." 

Dr. Mejia Adds New Impressive Hair Transplant Photos on His Online Doctor Profile Patient Gallery - 2/25/2008 ...

"I still get patients who say, 'I don't want those awful plugs,' " says Ricardo Mejia, a hair-restoration surgeon in Jupiter, Fla. "I have to constantly tell people we don't do that anymore."

LAS VEGAS — The most effective current solution for baldness is hair-replacement surgery, in which follicles are painstakingly moved in small bunches from the thick hair on the back of the head to the barren acreage on top.