At the time of your consultation, you will be meeting with an experienced hair loss consultant who has been professionally trained
and understands the private and personal nature of your visit. You will be taken through a detailed explanation of the process, answer
Prior to the surgery, you will meet with the doctor to discuss the final details of your procedure. He will discuss and draw in the outline
to restore your hairline taking into consideration a natural recession for your facial features. The artistry and skill of our surgeons have
attracted celebrities from all over the country. Our work has been seen everywhere from artists that have appeared on the Grammy's,
to major motion picture actors, as well as on television. You've probably seen our work, but because his or her results are so natural you would never know it was a hair transplant.
The procedure is performed under local anesthesia so you can drive yourself to and from the appointment. During the
procedure, you are awake, comfortable, and relaxed watching a movie, sporting event, or listening to music while the
procedure is being performed. You are sitting up and reclined in a state-of-the-art memory foam surgical chair. In addition,
you will be served complimentary beverages and snacks. If you're having a long procedure, we can order you a complimentary
The evolution of hair transplantation began over 50 years ago with the “Punch” plug graft technique. From this technique, a more refined “Micro/Mini” punch graft evolved, followed by the Micro/Multiple-Unit grafting technique and the FUE technique. Finally, the ultimate and most natural method of hair transplantation with the highest yield was perfected - the Microprecision Follicular Grafting® technique.
The results of Microprecision Follicular Grafting® are so natural this procedure has become the benchmark by which all other hair restoration methods are judged.
With the Microprecision Follicular Grafting® technique, it is absolutely impossible to get that “pluggy” look that you may have seen in the past. When restoring the front hairline, the doctor will outline a guideline for your front hairline that will have a natural recession for your facial features. A hairline that looks completely natural now and will ultimately stand the test of time for the rest of your life.
Initially, the doctor will create a transitional zone which is approximately a 1/4" in width which will contain all single hair grafts in the very front of the hairline. In the secondary transitional zone, the doctor will then integrate grafts containing two and three hair grafts behind the single hair grafts. Hair on the top of the head grows in follicular units of one, two, three, and four hairs.
So it makes perfect sense that if one was to restore their lost hair, it should be replicated in the same format to produce a totally natural result. However, there are only a select group of hair transplant practices worldwide that provide the experience, knowledge, and expertise to perfect and perform this technique. Our practice is one of them. It has been said by many, "Our technique is a perfect blend of art and science, creating the most natural results."
Our doctors are perfectionists. To achieve precision work, our surgical techs must also be perfectionists.
It takes an experienced hair transplant specialist and a highly trained and experienced medical team to successfully perfect and perform this technique.
It is important to know that the doctor's surgical team works and travels with them at both their Beverly Hills and Eagan offices. This is important in order to achieve consistent quality work. As highly trained experts, they have worked together for many years in the field of hair transplantation. As members of our doctor's team, they exclusively perform hair transplantation and do not perform any other service offered at the clinic.
Our surgical teams are some of the most experienced in the world. Their attention to detail is shown in the final results. We don't just restore hair...we change lives.
* If any newly transplanted graft does not grow within eight months, we will replace it at no charge. However, any and all warranty work must be performed within one-year from the date of the original procedure.
Whether your procedure is scheduled and being performed in Eagan, Minnesota or in Beverly Hills, California you will receive the same attention to detail provided by the same staff and ultimately achieve the most natural looking results. In order to accomplish this, Dr. Champagne's team travels with
The reality is that this technique is simply the most natural hair transplantation technique in the world. The “single hair grafts”
Then follicular grafts containing two, three, and four hair grafts are integrated in behind the front transtional zone.
ALL natural follicular grouping are simply relocated from areas of greater density into areas of lesser density where you would prefer to have more hair.
The artistry and skill of our surgeons will allow them to re-create a replicated design of a totally natural looking front hairline.
While performing hair transplantation in the frontal area, our surgeons and their surgical teams will implant staggered single hair
follicles and then integrate hair follicles containing two to four hair grafts. In the crown area, the doctor and his team will implant hair follicles containing two, three, and four hair grafts to produce the maximum density.
Some medical practices claim “larger” grafts will produce more density in the frontal area. What they don’t tell you is that although the
density may appear natural from afar, upon close inspection under elements of wind, rain, or wet hair, your hair would separate,
and the “clumpy” nature of the grafts would be apparent and appear very unnatural. Our surgeons believe “naturalness is key”.
Our surgeons only implant natural follicular groupings and would rather increase one’s density through using additional grafts if
As you can see by the before and after photos shown above, Tim from Minneapolis has a more youthful appearance and
Our facility has two state-of-the-art surgical suites shown above is located in Eagan, Minnesota. They are equipped with all the
comforts of of home including 65" flat screen TVs, Netflix, Sonos music system, and complimentary beverage and meal service.
During the procedure, you are awake, relaxing while watching a movie, sporting event or listening to music. The length of the
procedure is determined by the amount of hair restoration that is being performed. On average, depending the size of the procedure,
Some doctors will perform additional hair transplant procedures in as little as two to three months. Considering that the newly
transplanted hair requires 12-16 weeks to begin growing, one could reasonably conclude that it would be approximately three
The prospective patient should ask himself/herself how the physician could accurately and safely insert new grafts between
the previously placed ones, which have not yet begun to grow. With the Microprecision Follicular Grafting® technique the grafts are virtually impossible to discern at this stage. The only way new grafts could be accurately placed at this stage is if the healing and
scarring from the previous grafts were such that because of their size these grafts were very obvious.
If a patient would like to increase the density by having an additional procedure, we recommend allowing a minimum of eight to twelve months to allow totally accurate placement of the new grafts in between the new hairs growing from the previous procedure.
The other crucial factor is to allow adequate time for the mobility to return to the donor area prior to having an additional
A. Fees for hair transplantation are in direct proportion to the amount of work that is to be performed. Our pricing is the most
competitive in the Twin Cities. Currently we are running a limited time offer of just $3.95 per graft! There is also a "Stand-by" rate of $3.00 per graft for individuals that are flexible enough to have a procedure on short notice. This serves a purpose in the event that the patient experiences a scheduling conflict. The number of grafts transplanted will determine the cost of the procedure. In general, the larger the thinning area, the greater the number of grafts required and the higher the cost.
This is a very simplistic explanation, but it generally holds true. Of course, the donor hair must be sufficient to accommodate the
number of grafts needed. During your free evaluation, if you are an appropriate candidate, we can give you an estimate of costs.
The cost for our hair transplant procedure range in price from a small procedure at $4,000 to the largest procedure
When you have 10 minutes with Alice Waters, and you're a native New Yorker for whom moving to California completely changed the way you think about food, and you've been to Chez Panisse once and felt like you were entering Valhalla, and you've planted a dozen fruit trees in your backyard because you just can't believe that food actually grows on trees in the place you live, and you walk around the farmers market every week with your mouth hanging open, and thus you think Alice Waters is as close to a deity as you'll ever meet in the flesh...
Thus was my dilemma last Sunday, when Alice Waters did a cooking demonstration at the 2010 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Michael Weisberg, who runs the Cooking Stage every year, brought a few of us into the "green room" (aka "white tent") behind the stage before the presentation. Luckily, one of the other writers who was there was less star-struck than I was, and she carried the conversation. Her angle was more green living, environmental stuff, not really my focus, so I drifted in and out of that exchange. Instead, I was thinking: Ask something smart. Get her to say something original. Engage!
It was harder than it sounds. Because here are the topics Alice Waters is passionate about: fresh ingredients, high-quality produce, simple preparations, get close to your food sources, local organic, visual pleasure equals culinary delight, compost in the kitchen, grow your own, teaching kids about real food. When she was first saying these things 40 years ago (yes, Chez Panisse is coming up on its 40th anniversary next year), they were truly revolutionary. Now they're the lingua franca of the food world. She has won. Her message is the food world's message.
When it was my turn, I took a deep breath and decided to go personal. I'll name an ingredient, I said, and you tell me your favorite way to prepare and enjoy it. Culinary 20 (well, 7) questions. Her eyes sparkled. "Let's go," she said.
So here are a few of Alice Waters' favorite ways to enjoy some of my (and her) favorite ingredients - all very simple, which should surprise no one.
Green garlic: "I make a simple soup, all vegetables, to accentuate that subtle taste of garlic at this moment in time [meaning spring, I assume]."
Goat cheese: "I bake goat cheese, rolled in breadcrumbs, stick it in the oven, and just when it's soft I serve it with a salad."
Olives: "I take the pits out of the fruit, chop them up, then make a tapenade, or I scatter them on top of a pizza or pasta with tomatoes."
Does anyone know where and when to get nettles in southern California? The rest of that I can handle.
Alice was at the Festival of Books to promote her latest book, In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart . She says there's another book coming up next year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Chez Panisse.
Here are a few images from Alice's presentation, which focused on the beauty of fresh produce. By the way, she and her coauthor Kelsie Kerr apparently stopped at the Hollywood farmers market Sunday morning to collect the produce you see in the photos below. Was anyone there? Was there a stir? Or did she slip by completely incognito?
it sounds trite and cliched....but one visionary...can speed up the process...and certainly make a difference...we are now in the middle of a food revolution!