Transplanting Identical Twins

I just saw pictures of identical twins, one transplanted with 3000 grafts and the other not. The twin who had transplants, also took Propecia at less than the recommended dose, while the non-transplanted twin did not take Propecia at all. The difference between the two was dramatic, of course.

I have seen many identical twins over the years. These two were done back in 1993, when one twin had 3300 grafts removed, and gave 800 of those grafts to his identical twin brother on that same day (on the house of course). The twin who had lost his hair had genetic MPB and wore a hair piece which pulled out most of his remaining hair and he became balder than the twin that had done nothing. Eventually, they both got transplants, and one more procedure was done where the recipient twin had to pay back the donor hair to his twin brother. The piece in the video is short, but you can see the dynamics between the two.

I also remember twins that had been done years apart. The first was done with the old plug technique elsewhere, and the second was done by me with FUT just 7 years ago. The one with the plugs does not like to talk about his hair transplant, while the patient who was done by me has been trying to get his brother to fix the old work. Unfortunately the “pluggy” twin has been gun-shy about surgery since he was plugged years ago and has not yet had repairs done.

From my experience, only a minority of twins go the transplant route. I wonder if it is because my focus is not to ‘sell’ hair transplants but to be a physician hair loss advisor and I do not exert pressure on my patients to go for the surgical solution.