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Vanity, thy name is woman? A bald lie if you ask doctors. For one of the most common cosmetic procedures in the world is usually requested by men: hair transplants. In recent years, medical efforts to reforest bare scalps have become increasingly sophisticated. A combination of new surgical procedures can now mask baldness so faithfully that "only the patient and his doctor will know for sure," according to Dermatologist Theodore Tromovitch of San Francisco. At the same time, research on a new drug treatment suggests the hair-raising possibility that baldness can be prevented in the first place, even...
Many of the new methods of treating sparsely covered scalps are based on a transplant technique developed in the 1950s: about 50 "plugs," each consisting of twelve to 15 hairs with follicles intact, are removed from the back of the head and implanted in the bald spots. But the process is tedious and expensive. Transplanting each plug costs $25, and three to four sessions may be necessary. Moreover, not everyone has enough hair to provide sufficient plugs...
...solution is scalp-reduction surgery, which can shrink a bald spot the size of a palm to the width of a finger. The procedure, developed about eight years ago in Canada, is performed in a doctor's office under local anesthesia. The plastic surgeon or dermatologist makes an incision in the crown and then tugs firmly on the scalp, pulling hair-covered areas from the sides of the head toward the bare area on top (see diagram). A section of the bald scalp is cut away, and the incision is closed with stitches. The 60-min. procedure...
Just because an administration which has copiously investigated the South African problem has correctly concluded that taking the Pontius Pilate approach of dumping its moral responsibility for its investments is a bald copout, that doesn't mean it somehow supports racist oppression...
...Mint has struck some handsome coins over the years, the buffalo nickel and the Kennedy half-dollar among them. But the Government's 1984 silver dollar, designed to commemorate the Summer Olympics, is drawing a chorus of catcalls. One side of the dollar, portraying a bald eagle, is pleasing. But the opposite, or "heads" side, contains no heads at all. It features the bare torsos of a male and a female athlete, apparently standing atop the Los Angeles Coliseum, the principal site of the Games. Sniffed Coin Columnist Ed Reiter: "It is quite possibly one of the ugliest coins...