My Experience with Hair Transplants

By E. Ronald Finger M.D., 

I began performing hair transplants in the 1970s because of so many requests from patients. At that time the only option was what was called “plugs,” and each plug was 5 mm (millimeters) in diameter and contained from 8 to 10 hair follicles.

The plug grafts did take, but they looked very unnatural and this was because a 5 mm space had to ...