Dr. Marc Avram

Dr Marc Avram is a dermatologist and hair loss specialist with his own practice at 905 Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of New York 1. The practice says he treats men and women with hair transplants, PRP, low level laser therapy and medications 1. It says he is a clinical professor of dermatology at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Medical College at Cornell 1. It says he has written five textbooks on hair loss and hair transplantation 1. His ISHRS listing gives an MD from SUNY Health and Science Center at Brooklyn in 1989 and a dermatology residency at Harvard 2. It lists a 1994-1995 fellowship in hair transplantation at the Stough Clinic in Hot Springs, Arkansas 2. A second dermatologist, Dr Dawn Queen, also works at the practice 1.

The practice offers FUE and FUT 3. The hair transplant page describes the FUE as robotic, while the FUE page and a recent blog post describe FUE without mentioning a robot 345. The practice says surgical assistants prepare the grafts 3. It says Dr Avram makes the recipient sites with a needle 3. The FUE page says he removes the follicular units himself 4. The site does not say who places the grafts 3. The blog says FUE donor incisions are no more than 0.9 millimetres 5. The hair transplant page says procedures take 3 to 6 hours under local anaesthesia, with the patient awake 3. His ISHRS listing says the team regularly treats women and patients with scarring alopecia 2.

The pages reviewed give no prices 13.

Consultations are in the office or by telemedicine and are booked by phone 1. The practice says most patients return to work after 2 to 3 days 3. It says full workouts can usually resume after 10 days 3. Transplanted hair begins to grow at 4-6 months and has its maximum effect at 12 to 18 months 3.

The practice describes him as a board certified dermatologist 1. He is an ISHRS Fellow Member, a member since 1996 per his listing 2. His listing also names the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery 2.