A taste of Hair Transplant History 1994

Richard Shiell’s and Dr. O’tar Norwood’s comments were screenshots discussing my use of Megassions, transplanting between 2000-4000 graft. At that time, I was the only surgeon in the world performing 4000 grafts/sessions, publishing further on my early work in article #2 below. What I see in the screenshot of the photos of my patient, even meets my standards today, when most surgeons of the time were still performing plug surgery. I guess that makes me a pioneer.  You should know that performing such large procedures came at a great price to me, as I was relentlessly attacked at hair meetings because most other surgeons were still stuck in the “Plug Mentality,” performing 50-100 plugs per procedure. My surgeries could run 10 hours, but theirs ran about 1-3 hours, so it is easy to understand that they didn’t have the staff nor the skill to adopt these larger sessions with tiny grafts. The last article showed a compromise between an extensive session of plugs with some tiny grafts in the leading edge of the hairline (that wouldn’t work well for these patients, even at that time).  Click to Enlarge the article you want to read, below.