The village of Villechauve in the Loir et Cher bears his name. For nearly 40 years, the commune has hosted the annual meeting of the brotherhood of bald men. An association that is resolutely pronounced FOR hair loss. The bald inductees swear never to use implants, lotions and other mouths! A way to happily assume baldness.
The Swiss Association of Master Hairdressers offers bald men to hide their baldness, total or partial, with wigs "New top", made to measure in approved hair salons.
Présentation d'une nouvelle technique d'implants capillaires, sans douleur ni cicatrice mais très onéreuse.
Témoignages d'Arnaud Le FLOCHE, patient, et de Sydney OHANA, chirurgien esthétique.
La médecine avait mis en évidence le rôle d'un gène porté par le chrosome X dans l'apparition de la calvitie. Mais de nouvelles recherches ont permis de mettre en évidence le rôle joué par un gène situé sur le chromosome 20 quand celui-ci subit une mutation.
Explications à l'aide d'images de synthèse et de l'interview de Pascal REYGAGNE, dermatologue au centre Sabouraud.
Robert LASSUS interviews with humour the president of the "friendly of the stricken roofs", that is to say bald people. The goal is "to group together so we don’t get ridiculed when we’re taken apart".
Report on the treatment of baldness in men who are increasingly treated with implants. After a microsidewalk of women on their visions of bald, interviews with Dr Pascal REYGAGNE, dermatologist, about treatments for baldness and Dr Alain LEJADE, cosmetic surgeon, who shows the results of a transplant on a patient.
At a hairdresser’s, interview of a 19-year-old man wearing a toupee to mask early baldness. He explains that it allows him to have more confidence in himself.
At the Saint-Louis Hospital, a doctor evokes with enthusiasm the first experience of hair transplant practiced in the United States by Dr Orentreich in 1950,
Interviewed, two women who lost all their hair, say what they felt at that time. One of them explains: "...it’s very difficult to stay, to still feel like a woman, to be worth something, when all her hair has fallen off".
Interviewed about a possible trauma related to hair loss, Dr Pascal REYGAGNE, director of the Sabouraud centre at Saint-Louis Hospital, explains: "...it is a trauma that depends a little on the age at which you are affected (...) it is necessary to be able to accompany psychologically at the same time that a treatment is started...". He then explains what alopecia areata is, a disease, unlike age-related baldness.