Friar Tuck’s Bald Spot

My husband has a bald spot which he slickly combs back his very long hair to hide. The problem is that the spot is too big to cover that way, so his long hair falls to the side. He knows this psychologically, but denies that he is constantly combing back his hair to cover the impossible. He is dead set against being ‘cut open’ with a hair transplant. What can he do about this Johnny Cochran bald spot (with respect to the departed Cochran)?

There are many things he can do. He can wear a hair piece like the skullcap the pope or a rabbi wears, he can use spray hair from a can which he can buy for under $10 in Walmart, he can try to have the bald spot removed (a very radical surgery today with great risks) or he can consider a new minimally invasive hair transplant technique called Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) where he gets a limited hair transplant without being cut upon like a standard hair transplant strip excision.

If he goes the FUE approach, it will not necessarily take a lot of hair to accomplish this as we can put in something I call ‘tackers’ which are a limited number of single hairs placed into the crown (his bald spot) which when grown, will act like anchors to his comb-back. It will allow him to continue the use of his styling comb-back and then with a can of hair spray applied very lightly, the comb-back hair will be held by these tacking hairs in position for the entire day. The nice part of an FUE surgery is that there is almost no pain after the surgery (few ever complain), there is relatively low recovery time, and visibility can be kept to undetectable levels in most people. People like your husband who hate the idea of surgery, may still have a stretch to look at the FUE as a non-surgery. I have called this minimally invasive surgery when I first published this in the medical journals and so have the patients who have had the procedure, but your husband may be another case all together if he is inflexible in his thinking. Maybe there is no solution for him if he can not think ‘out of the box’.