Surgical procedures for the treatment of baldness

New surgical methods are now available for the correction of male pattern baldness. Standard techniques have been significantly refined during the past decade. These methods include punch autografts, strip grafting, scalp reduction, use of hair-bearing flaps, microsurgery, and various combinations of these techniques. A more recent refinement of hair transplantation is the use of minigrafts and micrografts. We present an overview of the advantages and indications for each procedure.