TV Chef Gordon Ramsay’s Hair Transplant

Check this out:Keep it under your hat but Gordon Ramsay’s had a £30,000 hair transplant

They mention that chef / TV personality Gordon Ramsay had a hair transplant using a “radical new treatment” called follicular unit extraction that “leaves no scars”. The press is so uninformed about things they report on sometimes. Hasn’t FUE been around for like a decade? What’s radical about it now?

Of course, you know that I pioneered follicular unit extraction (FUE) and published the first article in the medical literature on the technique in 2002. As for why the press is misreporting information, I don’t know why it happens. Perhaps it’s just laziness on their part.

FUE is far from a radical technique and it is incorrect to state that it leaves no scars, as anytime the human body is cut upon, there is ALWAYS a scar to some degree. The difference here between traditional hair transplants with strip harvesting (which leaves a linear scar) is that FUE leaves punctate scars that can be seen through the hairs in the donor area if the scalp is shaved very close there. Most people who have longer hair do not have visible scars, but that does not mean that it “leaves no scars”.

Good luck to Gordon Ramsay for the courage to address his hair loss concerns.