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Walter Unger,
M.D.,F.R.C.,
P(C), F.A.C.P
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Hair Transplant
Specialist
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620 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Tel. 212.249.9393
99 Yorkville Ave., Suite 214
Toronto, ON Canada M5R 3K5
Tel. 416.944.9393
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Dr. Walter Unger was one of the first
physicians to limit his private practice entirely to transplanting hair more than
30 years ago, and began a long career of not only practicing it in Toronto and New
York but also teaching it. He is currently Clinical Professor in the Department
of Dermatology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine New York, Associate Professor (Dermatology),
University of Toronto, and was Adjunct Professor (Dermatology) at Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine from 2003 to 2007. In addition to his academic and clinical work,
Dr. Unger is the author of chapters on hair transplantation in 31 medical texts,
has published numerous articles in medical journals and has been invited to deliver
scientific papers at over 125 medical meetings throughout the world over the past
30 years. The fourth edition (2004) of his textbook, Hair Transplantation, is considered
the standard reference text for hair transplant surgeons. More...
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The Principal
Hair Transplantation depends on the now well-established principle that transplanted
hair follicles (roots moved from their original location to another area) will behave
as they did in their original site. For example, even in the most advanced cases
of common Male Pattern Baldness (MPB), a horseshoe-shaped fringe of hair persists.
Hair follicles moved from this hair-bearing fringe (the donor area) to a bald or
balding area on the same patient's scalp (the recipient area), will take root and
grow. More...
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What is a reasonable long-term hair transplant goal for a man with an average-sized
area of Male Pattern Baldness (or who is destined to develop an average-sized area)?
In the long term, the answer is of course the same, whether someone is already bald
or is only destined to develop an average-sized area of Male Pattern Baldness (MPB).
However, let’s begin with a definition of “average”. Figure 12 shows the “types”
or degrees of MPB as defined by Drs. Hamilton and Norwood. More...
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