Jason Gardiner Reveals Hair Transplant in News of the World
Dancing on Ice judge Jason Gardiner finally ended industry speculation as to his sudden liking for hats, by revealing his hair transplant live on the final show last night.
His hair transplant story was dramatically revealed in the News of the World the day of the final show in a double page exclusive article featuring the first photos of Jason with his new hair.
Jason Gardiner's receding hairline and bald crown were the classic signs of male pattern baldness. He hated looking bald, but his first attempts to hide his hair loss were disastrous. “I had a hair rug which is someone else’s hair which they fuse to your head. It’s barbaric.” Jason suffered pain and a nasty reaction before finally removing the hair piece and shaving his head.
“After shaving off my hair for the first time I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror for 6 months” he said.
Jason researched the surgical options and opted to have a hair transplant with Beverly Hills based hair transplant surgeon Dr. Craig Ziering.
Jason describes the process of his follicular unit hair transplant , during which 3,501 individual grafts were dissected from the “donor strip” and carefully transplanted to the top of Jason’s head. “You have your recipient sites on top where you’re bald. And then you have your hairy donor site where they cut a strip out the back of the head. Afterwards I had no bruising. In ten days you wouldn’t have known I had anything except a small scar at the back of my head”.
The transplant took place last summer, but Jason patiently kept it under his hat while waiting for the hair to regrow. After transplantation, the hair is dormant for a few months before growing again.
Jason explained “You don’t see any growth for between six and seven months. My new hair only started coming through in January. But eventually – and it is almost overnight – you can actually feel it growing”.
He told his 60,000 Twitter followers: “I will have a second one in order to get back all the hair I lost. The medical technology these days is just remarkable! It is quite miraculous what they can do these days. Dr Ziering is a genius! x Thank you I’m very happy with the results.”
Jason’s hair transplant was performed by Dr. Craig Ziering in Beverly Hills. Dr. Ziering is a world-leading expert on hair loss and surgical hair restoration techniques and is one of the 5 surgeons credited with the invention of the modern follicular unit transplant and has performed over 15,000 procedures.
Dr. Ziering is Medical Director of Ziering Medical UK, which offers hair transplant and non surgical hair restorations in the UK. For further information, free consultations are available across the country.
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Who is Dr. Craig Ziering?
Dr. Craig L. Ziering is one of the leading authorities in hair transplant surgery. With more than 20 years of experience as a preeminent hair transplant surgeon in Southern California, Dr. Ziering has provided help to countless men and women who suffered from hair loss.
