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Article: Treating hair loss: no facial aesthetic procedure is complete without considering the effects of hair on the patient's overall appearance.
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- Plastic Surgery Products
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- August 1, 2006
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Transforming the face to a more youthful, healthier look is a challenging task for any surgeon who performs an aesthetic procedure. Achieving this end, while also avoiding any appearance of artificiality in the design, is what defines a procedure as aesthetically superior for both physicians and patients. To this end, there has been a growing awareness in the medical community--and among patients--that hair loss can detrimentally affect the overall desired short- and long-term outcome of facial-rejuvenation procedures.
By some estimates, genetic male and female hair loss affects between 60 and 100 million Americans. (1-4) It is expected, therefore, that a ...