Modern hair transplant techniques were first developed in Japan in the 1930s1 where surgeons used grafts to help restore eyebrow and eyelashes as well as the scalp hair of burns victims. It did not become a treatment for male pattern baldness until the 1950s when dermatologist Dr Norman Orentreich planted the first grafts in balding areas.2 Techniques progressed from there and follicular unit transplantation (FUT), or strip harvesting as it can be known, became the first popular method of hair transplantation.