Juri Hair Flap

You recommended a Dr. in Oakland’s site for hairline lowering. On his site I saw a procedure called the Juri Hair Flap.

Sounds too good to be true, 4 weeks and you have all your hair back. Can you tell me more about it?

The Juri flap has been out of favor for some years now. The inventor has apologized for this surgical procedure, and to me that says a great deal. In the old days (prior to 1992 or so), there were many radical procedures for treating hair loss and most have been abandoned today in favor of follicular unit hair transplantation, which has a very low complication rate and a very high patient acceptance. The Juri flap points the hair in the wrong direction (to the sides and backwards) and when balding progresses, it leaves a big hole in the balding area, which is hard to cover. For advanced balding (nobody can ever tell where they will end up) the look is quite bizarre. I spoke to Dr. Kabaker (the Oakland doctor you asked about) and he does not recommend them today for balding but may use this technique in rare circumstances such as: accidents, people who lose parts of the scalp, severe but localized burns to the scalp, etc..

For more about the Juri Hair Flap, see Dr. Kabaker’s site — Kabaker.com