Question: If you have hair replacement surgery, will it actually grow in the place where it fell out?

We came across this question, which is undoubtedly shared by many people considering a hair restoration, on WPTV.com, a website for a NBC subsidiary in West Palm Beach, Florida. From the same article, here's an excerpt from Dr. Ricardo Mejia, a dermatologist who specializes in hair restoration, who does a great job of answering it:

"Transplanted hair comes from the back of your head and that hair is more genetically insensitive to the hormone that causes hair loss, which is EHT.  So when you take hair from the back of the head and move them to the front they continue to grow as if they were growing to the back of the head."

Dr. Mejia supports hair restoration over oral or topical solutions because it gives you the freedom to treat the new hair as you always did before you went bald. No pampering needed.

"Surgery is the best option because we can give you your own natural, living hair.  You can comb it, you can style it, you can do whatever you would want to normally do with the hair that you did have before."