Why Did Anyone Get Hair Plugs in the 80s?!

Looking at the old school method doctors used to perform hair transplants, with those really “pluggy” looks, Im curious as to why ANYONE in their right mind in the eighties would go in for that procedure! Was it ever done well?? I mean it really looks like crap and nothing like natural hair. Do you have any photos of one of those procedures done relatively well? Just curious. Thanks, really enjoy the blog!!!

They didn’t know any better back in those days. I know we’re only talking about 20-25 years ago, but technology is an interesting thing. One might say that there was so much excitement to get hair on a bald head, that men did not use their brains. Or that doctors were so trusted in those days, that when a doctor recommended hair plugs, everything was followed like the sheep to the slaughter. It may seen archaic now, but it was the state of the art back then and most men had plugs put into thinning hair so that they only saw more fullness — that is, until the hair all fell out around the plugs. There was a logic put together by the doctor that one could put the hair back in quarter sections, like a checkerboard with four squares. First you transplanted one square than the second, then the third, and then the last. In theory, the doctors and the patients wanted to believe that when all four squares were filled in, the hair was full. But reality took on another face, and the doctors started to push ‘touch-ups’ to fix the pluggy appearance of the rows of corn that grew on the head. It was not unusual for a patient to have 10 surgeries to get their hair back, but that was never a real possibility. I don’t know where common sense played a role and the men walking around with ‘doll’s hair’ were becoming more and more prevalent. Celebrities were leading the way and people like Frank Sinatra became the model that everyone wanted to follow (he had a pluggy transplant), but he really looked awful so he wore a wig and people thought that was his hair transplant, an illusion that doctors profited from and patients wanted to believe. It was an embarrassing con game perpetrated by the medical profession.

Have you seen the old Atari video games back in the 1980s? It was the best back then! Unfortunately, just like the Atari video games of the 80s, the results of the old plugs are not as impressive when viewed today.