Jeffrey Epstein, MD, FACS
Hair Restoration Expert
6280 Sunset Dr #504
South Miami, FL 33143
Phone: (786) 401-5805
Hours: Monday–Friday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Eighteen months after his Istanbul procedure, a patient flew in with photographs taken under his bathroom lights, and as he turned around in my chair I could already see the pattern through his short hair: a moth-eaten band across the occipital scalp, the kind of irregular thinning that looks almost dermatologic until you realize every …
Most consultations start the same way. A patient sits across from me, fingers moving through hair they've been watching thin for months or years, and the question comes out sideways. Not "Am I a candidate?" but something closer to "Is there anything you can do?" or "Am I too far gone?" I read the scalp …
Most consultations about robotic hair transplantation start the same way. The patient sits across from me in Miami, runs a hand over the back of their scalp, and says something like, “I’ve been reading about the ARTAS robot.” Then a pause. What follows is rarely a technical question. They want to know if the machine …
Worried about how long hair transplant recovery really takes? An expert surgeon details the actual hair transplant recovery timeline—including swelling, shedding, and when you’ll look “normal”—with tips tailored to your job and appearance goals. Most patients sit across from me and ask the same thing before I’ve even finished examining their scalp: How long until …
If you’re considering follicular unit extraction (FUE), you probably have two practical questions about the recovery time: How long will I be out of commission, and when will I look “normal” again? Because FUE surgery removes thousands of tiny grafts rather than a single linear strip, physical healing is typically quick—most people feel comfortable and functional within …
Understanding FUE Hair Transplants: My Perspective FUE hair transplant (Follicular Unit Extraction) removes individual follicular units—groupings of 1–4 hairs—from the donor safe zone at the back and sides of the scalp. Rather than a strip excision, 0.8–0.95 mm punches are used to extract grafts one by one. This creates tiny dot scars that should not be …
Follicular unit extraction (FUE) is a method of hair restoration often used to correct male and female pattern baldness, and it can also address hair loss associated with many other conditions. You may have heard it’s necessary to shave your head before getting this procedure, but now it’s possible to perform the surgery with little …