Word: implanters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lured by ads promising a lush head of hair, perhaps 20,000 desperate men and women have spent up to $6,000 apiece at so-called implant clinics. The hair is really thousands of colored strands of polyester or modacrylic fiber, usually in bunches of three to eight strands.* The fibers are threaded into the scalp by needle or forced in by air guns and sometimes anchored below the skin with knots...
Initial patient euphoria is short-lived. Within weeks, the fibers start breaking and falling out. Remaining shafts become centers of inflammation as the body tries to reject the foreign material and invading bacteria. Says a 50-year-old real estate broker who underwent an implant: "Your entire scalp feels spongy, with a layer of pus underneath. The bleeding and itching drive you crazy. You wake up and find the pillow covered with blood." Natural hair may fall out too. Correcting the damage can take years. The fibers must be removed, and antibiotics taken to control infection. Some patients may require...
...medically qualified skin specialists, but the trade is obviously lucrative. In 1978 Donald Underwood, an osteopath, is said by the New York State attorney general to have earned $1 million from his now shuttered Long Island clinics. Some operators are switching to a new ploy: offering to implant human hair fibers. But dermatologists warn that fibers collected from a number of people can provoke even more serious problems...
Weir's film captures so much of what I experienced of Australia. Lovely pale schoolgirls in white dresses climbing on million-year-old frozen lava, a wry picture of the ridiculous Victorian society that tried so desperately to implant itself on so much of the globe, and here more than anywhere else was so out of place, out of time...
...presentation, Steptoe revealed that he and Edwards had made 32 attempts between November 1977 and August 1978 to implant embryos conceived in a laboratory dish into a mother's womb. Four pregnancies resulted from these implants, but only two led to the birth of healthy children-Louise Brown and, on Jan. 14 in Scotland, Alastair Montgomery. Both were premature, Steptoe said, but now are "flourishing, normal babies...