February 22 2008, 2:34 pm PT | Posted in: Hair Transplantation
Dr Rassman,
As part of your occasional series discussing the hair jobs of celebrities, could you take a look at this (rather unflattering) article on Sylvester Stallone in London’s Daily Mail?
Link: Daily Mail
In short, he does look very good for his age — until you check out the closeup of his hairline. In your opinion, what technique is responsible for that restoration job?
Thanks for your time
Yikes! What I see in the link you sent appears to be a harsh hairline. Even with the limitations of the photos, I think I am able to see some of the older type of work, some large grafts mixed with smaller grafts — so in my opinion he looks transplanted. I have no firsthand knowledge and am basing this on Mr. Stallone’s appearance in this photo. The older (and larger) grafts are relatively easy to detect and reflects more than one surgery, one of which may have been done years ago, prior to the advent of the modern Follicular Unit Transplant technique that we defined in 1997 in the published literature (see links below).
- The Aesthetics of Follicular Transplantation
- Follicular Transplantation: Patient Evaluation and Surgical Planning?
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Unrelated to his hair, I don’t agree that Stallone looks “very good” for his age. He has been criticized as an indiscriminate advocate of general use of Human-Growth Hormone (HGH)in “anyone over 40″ (see any of hundreds of articles via Googling) and in May of 2007 he pled guilty to illegally importing HGH into Australia. To me, his face has grown increasingly dysmorphic (a side effect of HGH) and one wonders whether the arthritis suggested by his pictures in the above link and mentioned by him in his interviews is also HGH-related.
Stallone’s still the greatest. I think alot of people are jealous of the fact that he’s over 60 and can DOMINATE over the very poor excuse of action stars today.