Six months ago, Dr. Jeffrey Epstein performed upon me a "follicular unit transplant"-that is, he extracted a clump of 1,923 hair follicles from the back of my head and grafted them, one by one, to the front (we left a bald spot on top). He also used a high-tech anesthetic wand to forestall pain and swelling (
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This doctor and staff have permanently deformed me. I went in for a simple small procedure (small hair transplant) and they proceeded to pump chemicals into my scalp and cut a huge area out which cut major veins in my head and left a huge numb spot that I have no feeling in years later. Implanted hairs got infected and pits are in my scalp and a great majority of my real hair fell out and left me which a face patchy hairline. The doctor told me that things would be fine and basically paid him thousands of dollars for this horrible surgery.