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1. When do you use minoxidil? What percentage solution do you use? How often? How much does it cost? Does it work? (J Acad Derm 1987)
2. Review the growth cycle of a hair.
3. Should you transplant hair by round, square, split, or strip grafts? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
4. Describe the Juri, Elliot, Ortichochea, bipedicle, and Chajchir flaps. Give the blood supply orientation and whether a delay is needed.
5. How do you do a scalp reduction? What kind of anesthesia do you use?
6. Harvey wants his vertex and frontal mid-section to be covered by hair. Tell us the standard treatment plan to cover a patient with hair loss. How many operations and transplants will he need? Will he need further transplants as his baldness increases? How much will the total plan cost? How long will it take him to obtain full coverage?
7. What is the Hamilton-Norwood classification?
8. What is a BAT flap? A TAT flap?