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June
10, 2004 NBC 6
Diana Gonzalez, Reporter - Health Connection
NBC-6, South Florida
Hair-Raising Surgery Catching On
With Jeffrey S. Epstein, M.D.
Report aired on June 10, 2004
Jennifer Valoppi, Anchor: We know that Americans spend millions
of dollars on razors and lasers and waxes and creams; anything
to get rid of all that unwanted body and facial hair. That’s
why our Health Connection report tonight is so unusual. Diana
Gonzalez is here to fill us in.
Diana Gonzalez, Reporter,
Health Connection: Instead of filling in a receding hairline,
here’s a new twist
on transplants: Taking follicles from here (pointing to bottom
of scalp) and putting them where you wouldn’t normally
expect. In case you’re squeamish, we wanted to let
you know we’re showing an actual procedure.
Dr. Jeffrey S. Epstein (pointing
to patient’s eyebrow
with pen): If you look here, you can see all throughout this
area where she used to have hair. She’s really lost
that.
Diana Gonzalez: Over plucking
is to blame for Christina Canella’s sparse eyebrows.
Dr. Epstein (pointing to pen
lines drawn under her left eyebrow): In this area where
her hair is the thinnest, and also on top here (pointing
above eyebrow), I’ve drawn
out a line to show where I want to transplant some hairs.
Diana Gonzalez: Dr. Jeffrey Epstein is taking hair follicles
from her head and transplanting them into her eyebrows.
Dr. Epstein: Today the desired
look is a thicker eyebrow. So while some of these women
20 or 30 years ago, when they were in their 20’s,
plucked their eyebrows out. Now they are desiring to have
more natural looking, fuller eyebrows.
Diana Gonzalez: Because it is such a small area, eyebrow
transplants are hard to do.
Dr. Epstein: Each graft needs
to be placed precisely into the exact position so that
the hairs don’t
grow straight out, but rather grow flat.
Diana Gonzalez: Goatees are
tricky too. See how Dr. Epstein filled in the holes in
this patient’s
beard. [Shows before and after shots of a patient who had
a beard transplant.]
Dr. Epstein: The nice thing about beard transplants is that
like the scalp, these hairs are very similar, they keep on
growing, they need to be trimmed. So when we take the hairs
from the back of the scalp and put them in the beard, they
can continue to grow as normal beard hair would grow.
Diana Gonzalez: And while most men these days are removing
chest hair, this patient had hair from the back of his head
transplanted to his chest. [Shows before and after shots
of a patient who had a transplant on his chest.]
Dr. Epstein: These days, men
are more interested in laser hair removal than hair replacement.
However there still are some guys and women, that for whatever
reason, desire more hair in areas where they weren’t
born with or that they lost.
Diana Gonzalez: You might want to consider
penciling in those eyebrows. A transplant can cost between
$2,500 and $4,000, depending on the look you’re going
for.
More information about Jeffrey Epstein,
M.D., is available on his website, www.foundhair.com. To
see the actual video of this news story, click here:
www.nbc6.net/health,
and look for the story, “Hair-Raising
Surgery Catches On.”
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