On my 40^th birthday, Laurie, Jamie and Nikki took me to a salon to be fitted for my first hairpiece. The evolution of my hair systems over the past 14 years could be a story on it’s own but that’s for another time. After moving to Florida and finding a new stylist to maintain my look, Jerry, my stylist ended up having a hair transplant for himself. I saw the results at my regularly scheduled appointment, ten days after his procedure and was pretty impressed. Fast forward one year and Jerry’s hair looks great. Laurie came with me to see Jerry’s hair and we decided it was time for me to have a new look. The photo below is one of the last shots of my old look. ...

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Hair loss is a serious issue for millions of people. Four years ago, the Food and Drug Administration estimated that more than 40 million men and 20 million women experienced some form of hair loss. According to The Washington Post, American hair loss sufferers spend more than $3.5 billion a year to treat the condition...

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.