Moustaches are Back in Fashion

    BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, December 02, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- After years in the fashion wilderness moustaches are back in vogue - with men up and down the country sporting facial hair for the first time.

This year, Brad Pitt adopted a moustache for his most recent film and dozens of actors, photographers and fashionistas followed suit.

November also morphed into Movember, an annual month-long celebration of the moustache, highlighting men's health issues while raising money for prostate cancer charities.

But for many men, growing facial hair has become a life-long struggle, with some never being able to achieve a rugged face full of fluff.

Allan Peterkin, author of a cultural history of facial hair, One Thousand Beards, said many men feel their maleness is somehow reduced without being able to grow facial hair.

He said: "In any men's magazine now, probably every third face you see is furry in some way. There are a lot of great moustaches walking around. If you can't grow one and you want to you are at a bit of a loss.

"It's not that we want facial hair, exactly - but that we would like to be able to make the decision for ourselves. It is just easier to be a confidently refined male when you know your face contains the possibility of hulking machismo."

At one time men would have to suffer in silence, feeling embarrassed about their bare faced appearance. But now, the UK's leading surgery provider The Hospital Group has the perfect solution with a simple hair transplant procedure.

Hair Transplant Surgeon at The Hospital Group, Dr Peter Williams, said the procedure created natural, lasting results.

He said: "In general men are becoming conscious of self image and are prepared to do something about it.

"It is possible to transplant hair onto the face - to create a moustache, beard or sideburns.
"Hair can be taken from the back of the head and then transplanted into the skin. A few months later the hair grows just like normal hair."

The Hospital Group, the UK's leading cosmetic surgeons, perform more hair restoration procedures than any other surgery provider, and only carry out natural hair transplants using the latest Follicular Hair Transplantation techniques. Follicular Transplantation involves transplanting hair units, often with four or five hairs growing from one follicle, to a bald spot to generate growth.

Human hairs are genetically programmed to either be sensitive to the male hormone, which causing them to die, or to be permanently immune to the hormone and last a lifetime. Hair Transplantation uses the 'lifetime growth' hairs from around the back of the head, and transplants them in areas where the hairs have died.

Hair or Follicular Transplantation at The Hospital Group is a minor surgical procedure, taking little more than three hours.

The Hospital Group's hair restoration and transplantation clinic was founded in 1992, and is staffed with industry experts at its dedicated Dolan Park Hospital in the Midlands.

The Hospital Group is committed to providing the very highest standards and all procedures are performed by an expert medical team in state-of-the-art facilities that are second to none. Since The Hospital Group was established, it has grown from a small pharmaceutical company to one of the UK's foremost cosmetic surgery providers.

For further information of The Hospital Group's range of hair restoration procedures, surgery-seekers should visit the website www.thehospitalgroup.org or call our patient care coordinators on 0845 762 6727.

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