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He says he's not dead.

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MountieBoyOz said:
So would Stone Cold Steve Austin.
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Truth.

Honestly, if I had about 30 more lbs on me, I'd just shave my head. I did it once, kept the look for about a month, but being as skinny as I am, I looked like some Neo-Nazi, and that's NOT a good look. :(
 
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My hairline is receding so I would shave my head. However, I'd be sleeping on the couch if I did so that's out the window.
 
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And a rug is not the answer. In the AF I was assigned to the Far East Network (GI radio in Tokyo, very tough duty) and the chief engineer was a little bald guy. I asked him why he didn't invest in a toupe. His answer was, you go out to the finest hair dresser in the world, the guy who does John Wayne's rugs, pay for the finest natural hair wig, get it perfectly fitted. He said, the first time you wear it in public, somebody for sure will come up and say "that's the best looking rug I've ever seen."


The exception might be someone really young, like whichever Menendez brother was as bald as a duck.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Patrick Stewart, Michael Jordan, Bryan Cranston, etc might like to have a word with you. Sometimes being bald is a better look.
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Brenthoven said:
Truth.

Honestly, if I had about 30 more lbs on me, I'd just shave my head. I did it once, kept the look for about a month, but being as skinny as I am, I looked like some Neo-Nazi, and that's NOT a good look. :(
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Nah, you're good now. Neo-Nazis don't have huge Irish tattoos on their arms, they have swastikas.
 
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Old Pio said:
Doc, you're the only poster for whom this annecdote will mean anything. My old man played a small role in bringing the Durovic brothers to justice for peddling their totally worthless cancer cure called Krebiozen in the 50's and 60's. Remember? The only "active" ingredient in the stuff was the amino acid creatine, and some samples didn't even have that. My father got some of the stuff and passed it on to the feds. The Durovics had a doctor by the name of Andrew Ivy fronting for them. Ivy headed the medical school at the University of Illinois and was a huge national figure. My old man believed Ivy was gulled by the thought of a Nobel Prize glittering in his future. That and the fact that he was senile. My father told me of watching Ivy "scrub" to give an injection of this worthless preparation. Gown? Gloves? Mask? For an injection?

Ultimately, the Durovics and Ivy wound up in court, but the jury hung. My father thought it was because the prosecutors were too hard on Ivy, a kind of befuddled old man for whom the jurors evidently felt sorry. But the use and sale of Krebiozen were hugely reduced. Got no idea if it's still out there. Maybe at Mexican clinics. This stuff was the laetrile of its day, and equally effective. Zero.
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Over the years I have seen all sorts of horrible diseases-sometimes(on rare occassions) i think that crushed peach pits might work as well or as badly as all the poisons we physicians gave the patient. We have made advances and we do have far more effective treatments for a great number of problems. But every so often we face something we just cannot treat well at all. Of course the media virtually never shows that side.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
I wonder about that when the baldness cure commercials come on. Why would any of these rich and famous people be bald if it works?

Hmmmmmm.....
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Some of the treatments are quite effective. Transplantation whether it be plugs or strips added to scalp reduction can really make a big cosmetic difference. Drugs like Propecia actually can help you retain the hair you have and grow at least a modest amount more. But whichever drug company is able to market the true 'cure' for all types of hair loss would be high on my list to invest in.:D
 
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DrDemento said:
Some of the treatments are quite effective. Transplantation whether it be plugs or strips added to scalp reduction can really make a big cosmetic difference. Drugs like Propecia actually can help you retain the hair you have and grow at least a modest amount more. But whichever drug company is able to market the true 'cure' for all types of hair loss would be high on my list to invest in.:D
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Joe "gaffamatic" Biden had plugs put in years ago.
 
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Old Pio said:
And a rug is not the answer. In the AF I was assigned to the Far East Network (GI radio in Tokyo, very tough duty) and the chief engineer was a little bald guy. I asked him why he didn't invest in a toupe. His answer was, you go out to the finest hair dresser in the world, the guy who does John Wayne's rugs, pay for the finest natural hair wig, get it perfectly fitted. He said, the first time you wear it in public, somebody for sure will come up and say "that's the best looking rug I've ever seen."


The exception might be someone really young, like whichever Menendez brother was as bald as a duck.
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Here's an anecdote. My father was in the Marine Corps and would have to get his hair cut to regulation every three days. Once got out, he refused to get it cut for five years. (He also didn't shave for that same time period.) He ended up taking a job at a brewery where he would have to wear a helmet and tuck all that hair under his helmet. A few years later, his hair was gone.
 
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MountieBoyOz said:
Here's an anecdote. My father was in the Marine Corps and would have to get his hair cut to regulation every three days. Once got out, he refused to get it cut for five years. (He also didn't shave for that same time period.) He ended up taking a job at a brewery where he would have to wear a helmet and tuck all that hair under his helmet. A few years later, his hair was gone.
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The Curse of Laverne and Shirley? ;)
 
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Old Pio said:
Yeah, but think about what it would bring to your CV.
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OP-I was fortunate to spend some time learning from the master of hair transplantation and the early innovator Norman Orentreich in NY. The technique has imporoved incredibly since then and the instrumentation is now vastly superior-but his clientele that I got to attend to with him included many of the A list celebrities(Actors, politicians, sports personalities). Lots of well known politicians but alas never a VP. Much of the training I had received in the exotic cosmetic work was never really appropriate for the blue collar area that I set up practice for most of my career. Most people around here will not spend money to get their hair cut-so they certainly will not consider a hair transplant, face lift, facial fillers, Botox or reconstruction simply for cosmetic purposes.
 
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DrDemento said:
OP-I was fortunate to spend some time learning from the master of hair transplantation and the early innovator Norman Orentreich in NY. The technique has imporoved incredibly since then and the instrumentation is now vastly superior-but his clientele that I got to attend to with him included many of the A list celebrities(Actors, politicians, sports personalities). Lots of well known politicians but alas never a VP. Much of the training I had received in the exotic cosmetic work was never really appropriate for the blue collar area that I set up practice for most of my career. Most people around here will not spend money to get their hair cut-so they certainly will not consider a hair transplant, face lift, facial fillers, Botox or reconstruction simply for cosmetic purposes.
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When I was working in Houston, some quack, who had evidently been to a weekend liposuction seminar in Vegas, put up some billboards and waited for the suckers. Sure enough, two ladies (who had not consulted with their PCP's) wound up dead. Because this idiot couldn't maintain a sterile field. They surely didn't deserve to die. But if they'd consulted with their PCP's the docs would have told 'em they didn't need the procedure and recommended diet and exercise. If they persisted, the docs surely would have recommended someone board certified and not a guy with billboards and ads in the yellow pages. IIRC, he went to prison, where he surely belonged.

As to those A-listers, I'm guessing it was ethics that kept you from writing a tell all book!
 
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