The prospect of finding a good hair transplant surgeon can be time consuming if you do not know where to start The common sense approach is to get a recommendation from a friend or an associate

According to the Medem Medical Library, approximately 25 percent of men begin balding by age 30 and two-thirds by the age of 60 There is a 4 in 7 chance of getting the baldness gene with both parents contributing to their offspring's likelihood of hair loss although recent large studies conducted in 2005 and 2007 may indicate the maternal side will be a greater contributing factor

Everyone has heard of or even seen hair transplant horror stories, maybe in a magazine, online or even worse seen the obvious ‘plugs’ in a elderly friend or relative However hair transplant surgery has jumped leaps and bound in recent years to make it a viable, safe and not too risky option for those suffering with male pattern baldness, many celebrities such as Nicholas Cage, Brendan Fraser Mather MOcanhey, Dwayne Johnson (‘the Rock’,WWE) Salman Khan (Bollywood) and even Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are believed to have had hair transplantation surgery, although such is the stigma attached that none of them have admitted to it publicly, it only becomes obvious when studying before and after pictures