Norman Orentreich dies at 96

Few, if any of our baldingblog readers, may know the name, but this is the man who was the ‘inventor’ of modern hair transplantation in the 1950s. What he taught us, was the hairy skin taken from the back and side of the head, when placed in a bald area, would grow the hair and not be impacted by the balding. He called that ‘Donor Dominance’ and the rest is history. It took almost a decade for the journals, the dermatologists of the time and the medical establishment to accept his pioneering discovery, but because of his discovery, we have possibly a $10 Billion hair transplant business world-wide today that helps hundreds of thousands of people. Read about him in the New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/business/dr-norman-orentreich-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR00A3NAeWyZsU-cLcT288mVH_0dG8u6H-qmpyxDss7fpfG-lEy_8lUmrvY