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Hair Transplantation

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Nowadays hair transplantation is the most commonly used surgical technique to treat androgenetic alopecia. It is performed on an outpatient basis with only a small risk of failure. The result can be appreciated only after a few months when the grafted bulbs have regenerated hair, and limited density may require further operations to achieve the desired effect.

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  1. Ricercatore Universitario di Chirurgia Plastica, Dipartimento di Chirurgia, Università di Roma “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Marco Toscani MD

  2. U.O.C. di Chirurgia Plastica, Università di Roma “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Mariangela Ciotti MD

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  1. Dept. of Plastic Surgery, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Nicolò Scuderi

  2. University of California- San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Bryant A. Toth

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Toscani, M., Ciotti, M. (2016). Hair Transplantation. In: Scuderi, N., Toth, B. (eds) International Textbook of Aesthetic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46599-8_38

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