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The importance of good, pain-free local anesthesia in cosmetic procedures on the scalp cannot be emphasized enough. There is no doubt that mastery of an effective technique is an advantage. Patients who have had to endure pain in a first transplantation often do not return for a second one.
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Sandhofer, M. (2001). Hair Transplantation. In: Hanke, C.W., Sommer, B., Sattler, G. (eds) Tumescent Local Anesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56744-5_24
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