Bald? Not Bruce Willis? There's Hope
The Hollywood Reporter|June 21, 2017

From robots to Regenix bespoke formulas, amniotic injections and — eww — fetal foreskin, new treatments are helping industry men maintain a full head of hair

Kathryn Romeyn
Bald? Not Bruce Willis? There's Hope

For those whose visages are plastered on increasingly high-def screens around the world, hair loss and balding are nightmares. “As an actor loses hair, they lose work,” says David Shusterman, hair transplant surgeon and founder of New York Medicine Doctors, which treats a number of models, producers and actors. In 2011, Chris Evans, aka Captain America, was candid about his hair beginning to disappear: “I’m supposed to be this superior human. How horrible would it be if this superior man has male pattern baldness?” No word on what he has done about it since, because the shroud of secrecy around male hair loss has become only more opaque. 

Tom Arnold, John Cleese, Jason Alexander, Dennis Miller, Christopher Knight and Joey Fatone all have been vocal about efforts to regain a healthy pile, from transplants to Farrell toupees, but no longer. Unlike 20 or even three years ago, when plugs came with telltale back-of-head scars, surgeons’ best work now goes virtually undetected. So “they don’t have to admit to it,” says Craig Ziering, aka Doc Hollywood of hair restoration.

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