According to New York Magazine excerpt from the recently published book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Ivanka Trump has frequently discussed her father's distinctive hairstyle with friends of hers for years. She even allegedly revealed that the president has undergone scalp reduction surgery to preserve his thinning hair.
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"She treated her father with a certain degree of detachment, even irony, to the point of mocking her comb over others." New York Magazine writes "Often times, friends would describe the mechanics behind it: a squeaky clean paw, a contained island after scalp reduction surgery, surrounded by a shaggy circle of hairs around the sides and front. , from where all ends extend to meet in the center. and then swept back and secured with a stiffening spray. "
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For those unfamiliar with the procedure, it is performed by removing the bald part of the scalp on the top or crown of the head and sewing the edges of nearby, hairy skin.
While this surgery can work in theory, the American Hair Loss Association calls it a "procedure to avoid," stating that it is "barbaric" and "disfiguring." Although, New York facial plastic surgeon Benjamin Paul, MD, does not believe that Trump has The traditional surgery for scalp reduction that this book claims he had, but that he tried something else entirely.
"It is plausible that he had a rotary flap, called the Juri's flap, where the lateral hair turns toward the central hairline," explains Dr. Paul. "One of the concerns with a Juri flap is that the hair comes out in a very unnatural direction, although from these hairs, hair extensions can be woven and transplants can be placed. This would explain the famous direction and pattern. and unnatural from her hair. "
