Detailed description of the Dr. Lawrence Shapiro's Hair Institute website
About Dr. Lawrence ShapiroDr. Lawrence J. Shapiro has been in practice since 1989. He has performed over 10,000 micro-mini graft procedures. As a dermatologist (the treatment of skin, hair, and nails) he specializes exclusively in hair transplant surgery. Dr. Shapiro was the first to do a "strip incision" and the first doctor in the Southern U.S. to specialize in "micro-mini grafts." He developed this treatment to a state of the art procedure while others were and still are using plugs and other outdated methods.
Dr. Shapiro has a highly trained and experienced medical staff, who have been with him for 12-15 years, and who specialize exclusively in assisting in hair transplant surgery. This knowledgeable and caring team are here to support you throughout this entire process.
What to Avoid -
About the Hair Transplant ProcedureWe are besieged daily with hair loss treatment ads using misleading advertising to sell their products. Hair loss patients spend nearly $1 billion each year on ineffective hair loss treatments. If you are genetically prone to hair loss and balding, FDA-proven hair loss treatments MAY help slow the process IF they are used early and often. However, hair loss treatments are still not permanent solutions to your hair loss problem and can become very costly and expensive over time with possible side effects.
If you have already had a small amount, moderate or even significant hair loss, hair transplants are the only option for restoring natural hairlines. Because "Donor Hair" is already genetically resistant to the male/female-pattern balding, it can be used for the restoration of natural hair which is also genetically resistant to balding.
We recommend that you be cautious of unproven and non FDA-approved methods of hair treatment such as the latest fad, laser combs, to grow your hair. The high cost of these unproven methods and non-approved methods certainly does not justify them. Note: If you Google "laser comb fraud" you will