History of Hair Transplant Surgery

History of Hair Transplant scalp flaps,in which Use of the a band of tissue with its original blood supply is shifted to the bald area, and free grafts 19th Century 1930's Modern era of hair transplantation in the western world was ushered Modern Hair transplant techniques began in Japan 1950's Using large numbers of small grafts was popularized in Brazil 1980's Use of the stereo-microscope to a single donor strip into small micro grafts got Introduced 1990's Adoption of the "lateral slit" technique enabled hair transplant surgeons to orient 2 to 4 hair follicular unit grafts so that they splay out across the scalp's surface 2000