Rolf Nordström is a professor of plastic
and reconstructive surgery. He began hair transplanting in approximately
1974 and almost immediately started doing scientific studies on hair
survival in grafts of various sizes placed into recipient sites of
various sizes and in various patterns. Subsequently, he did similar
critical studies on the long-term effect of alopecia reduction (AR)
that have provided useful fodder to the group of hair restoration
surgeons who are not in favour of AR. (Rolf still carries out AR regularly
and finds them very useful.) In 1981, he published a paper describing
single-hair grafts and used the term "micrograft" for the first time.
Dr. Nordström is the author of over 300
publications on scalp surgery, surgical hair replacement, tissue expansion,
cleft lips, and palates, and other fields of plastic surgery. Eighty-eight
of the papers describe original studies and reviews in the field of
hair transplantation. He is also the editor of six international textbooks
and monographs on various subjects. In 1997 he received the Platinum
Follicle Award for the best scientific research in hair pathophysiology
and anatomy from the ISHRS. Nobody has done more to advance the scientific
basis on which we do hair restoration surgery than Dr. Nordström,
and nobody is more respected by his colleagues.
Dr. Walter P. Unger, MD
The History of Hair Transplantation
Hair Transplant Forum International, Volume
10, Number 4, July/August 2000, p.106.
