Follicular Unit Extraction from Hair Restoration Blackrock
Dr Collins is Medical Director and Team Principal of Hair Restoration Blackrock. He was educated at Belvedere College Dublin and did his undergraduate medical studies at University College Dublin. After graduating as a doctor he trained in General Surgery and received his Fellowship (FRCSI) in this specialty from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
This patient did not have a hair transplant with HRBR. In 2005 he had his third angioplasty procedure to open blockages in his arteries and when his cardiologist could not approve his coming off blood-thinning medication for ten days prior to the transplant procedure it was a huge disappointment. Dr Collins and his team researched his
‘My name is Karl Fitzgerald, I’m 29. I’m a former art student. I was down at the Galway races and we were out on a night out and having drinks and on the way home an attack happened, where a guy came up and started to attack me and my friend. And amongst all the
What exactly is a hair transplant? Famous cases like Louis Walsh and Wayne Rooney have put hair transplants in the spotlight in recent years but there are still many myths and misconceptions around what a hair transplant really is. Put simply, a hair transplant is the redistribution of hair from a part of the head where
This hair transplant patient had taken on more senior roles in business and had to make presentations at conferences. He found it hard meeting people and became very self-conscious about how he looked. He did a lot of research until he reached a decision – He wanted his hair back and this led him to
A study in the online journal BMJ Open has found that men experiencing baldness are more likely to have heart problems than peers with no hair loss. The study Researchers in Japan studied the results from 37,000 men and compared their findings with previous research linking hair loss with heart trouble. They concluded that balding
Eyes may be the windows of the soul but, when it comes to expressing our emotions, the eyebrows do it in one quick motion. But, this vital part of our how we express ourselves is often overlooked, until an accident or an ailment changes how we view them. This is exactly what happened to Karl
Maurice Collins, HRBR, speaking about hair loss on the Newstalk Breakfast Show on 28th August 2012.
Founder and Medical Director of HRBR, Dr. Maurice Collins, completed the challenging cycle from Paris to Nice on the 4th of October 2012. All donations raised from this event will go towards Special Olympics Ireland and Cerebral Palsy Sports Ireland. To sponsor Dr. Maurice Collins for this great event or for more information, please click
View the article here >> When Wayne Rooney tweeted a year ago that he had just had a hair transplant not only did he remove the stigma previously associated with this type of surgery, but he also unknowingly changed received attitudes towards men openly taking care of themselves, let alone talking about it. Since I
