Hair Loss Resources - NY Hair Loss

Anesthetic agents – Medication or drugs that can be injected with a needle or rubbed onto and area to make it numb before a surgical procedure. Anesthesia drugs may also be given by mouth, breathed in as a gas, or injected into a vein or muscle to make a patient relaxed or unconscious.
Hair follicle – A tube-like indentation in the skin from which a single hair grows.
Minigraft or micrograft – Transplantation of a small number of hair follicles, as few as one to three hairs, into a transplant site.
Transplantation – Surgically cutting out hair follicles and replanting them in a different spot on the head.

Strough, Dow B., and Robert S. Hamber, eds. Hair Replacement-Surgical and Medical. St. Louis: Mosby-Yearbook, 1996.
Unger, Walter P., ed. Hair Transplantation. 3rd ed. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1995.

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Byron, C. “Hair Raising.” Men’s Health 10, no. 6 (July/Aug. 1995): 72-77, 112, 114.
Chang, L. Y., et. al. “Use of the Scalp as a Donor Site for Large Burn Wound Coverage: Review of 150 Patients.” World Journal of Surgery 22, no. 3 (Mar.1998): 296-300.
Fischer, David. “The Bald Truth.” U.S. News & World Report (4 Aug. 1997): 44-50.

American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. 401 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611-4267. (313) 527-6713.
American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 1110 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 220, Washington, DC 20005. 800-332-3223.

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