Sep 8, 2026 · 44 min · 13 segments
What actually changes about a hair transplant when the goal isn't restoring a hairline — it's building one that reads correctly? Nate Bruschi and Alec Persson sit down with HRI Medical Director Dr…
He said something almost in passing that I think is the most important sentence in the whole interview.
And I want to say clearly to anybody listening who's in that position, you don't owe us your history.
You can walk in and say, I want a lower, rounder hairline, and that is a complete sentence.
But if you feel comfortable talking with us about your transition journey, we can be much more helpful about helping you co-create a hairline that you will love, that will achieve your goals in one step as opposed to having to do multiple procedures.
And on the hormone question, that's not a, we need to know your identity question.
That's a, we need to know your medications questions so we can keep you safe and comfortable during the procedure.
Which is why we ask every single patient, if you're on estrogen or spironolactone or testosterone, it goes in the intake form the same way a blood thinner would.
One thing you guys didn't get into is, what about people who've already had hairline advancement and now have a scar at
You can transplant into and in front of a hairline advancement scar to camouflage it.
The general guidance in the literature is to wait several months after the forehead work rather than transplanting into a fresh scar because graft survival and freshly operated tissue isn't optimal.
He said something almost in passing that I think is the most important sentence in the whole interview.
And I want to say clearly to anybody listening who's in that position, you don't owe us your history.
You can walk in and say, I want a lower, rounder hairline, and that is a complete sentence.
But if you feel comfortable talking with us about your transition journey, we can be much more helpful about helping you co-create a hairline that you will love, that will achieve your goals in one step as opposed to having to do multiple procedures.
And on the hormone question, that's not a, we need to know your identity question.
That's a, we need to know your medications questions so we can keep you safe and comfortable during the procedure.
Which is why we ask every single patient, if you're on estrogen or spironolactone or testosterone, it goes in the intake form the same way a blood thinner would.
One thing you guys didn't get into is, what about people who've already had hairline advancement and now have a scar at
You can transplant into and in front of a hairline advancement scar to camouflage it.
The general guidance in the literature is to wait several months after the forehead work rather than transplanting into a fresh scar because graft survival and freshly operated tissue isn't optimal.
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