In the past, the teaching of hair transplantation surgery had been carried out on either pig skin, a cadaver, or a live patient's head. In an attempt to find a substance not hard to come by and inexpensive, while being conducive to the learning process, the author began using honeydew. Besides being easily obtainable and inexpensive, this melon is of good consistency and is approximately the size of a human head, thus making it an excellent teaching tool for hair replacement surgery.
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