Welcome to Shapiro Medical Group
Shapiro Medical Group is home to Dr. Ron Shapiro, his brother Dr. Paul Shapiro and Dr. David Josephitis. The Shapiro name is known internationally for state-of-the-art care of patients. Shapiro Medical Group physicians have been invited to lecture and demonstrate advanced surgical techniques at conferences around the world for more than 18 years. Shapiro Medical Group physicians repeatedly lecture on Creating Naturalness, Hairline Design, Maximizing Density, Placing Techniques, and many other hair transplantation surgery topics.
Shapiro Medical Group Physicians
Dr. Ron Shapiro
Dr. Paul Shapiro
Dr. David Josephitis
Dr. Ron Shapiro, Dr. Paul Shapiro and Dr. Josephitis are Diplomats of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery, and they are listed on a number of independent consumer advocate websites as being among the top physicians performing female hair transplant in the U.S. The physicians at SMG perform just one procedure: hair transplantation. They work one-on-one with patients throughout the process and typically schedule only one procedure a day to give each patient the attention they deserve.
Best hair transplant doctors Ron Shapiro are two of the most recognized names in hair transplantation surgery. Dr. Shapiro has been widely featured in the media, on television and in books. He has contributed to numerous textbooks and articles. Dr. Ron Shapiro is frequently invited to lecture at major conference in the U.S. and abroad. Over the past 15 years, he has given more than 50 lectures in more than 30 cities worldwide. Dr. Shapiro has the unique honor of having been asked by his colleagues to perform live surgery demonstrating his technique at many of these major conferences every year for the past 12 years. He has been chosen by his peers to receive numerous awards including the Golden Follicle Award, the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award for clinical contribution to the growth of the field. Only 14 physicians practicing hair transplantation have received this award.
Hair transplantation has undergone a virtual revolution of change in the last 10 to 15 years. In the beginning, large punch grafts were used which led to the pluggy look associated with older transplants. This is no longer done. The desire to improve naturalness led to the use of progressively smaller grafts. A revolutionary advance occurred when physicians observed that, under magnification, hair grows in tiny, naturally occurring groupings of 1-4 hairs called Follicular Units (FU). With this observation, physicians began using microscopic magnification to create grafts that keep these natural groupings intact, and the procedure, called Microscopic Follicular Unit Grafting, was born. With these tiny grafts physicans could replace hair exactly as it is found naturally, creating results so natural they are virtually undetectable, even under close examination.
Continual improvements and advancements have occurred in the field. Some of these innovations include Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), mega-sessions, dense packing, lateral slit technique, trichophytic closures, and more. SMG has been at the forefront of most of these advancements. In this section, we will discuss some of the basic concepts of hair transplants as well as some of the more advanced techniques used at SMG.