Dr. Bruce Marko earned his Medical Degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in Omaha. He completed a four-year Residency Training Program at Orlando Regional Medical Center in Florida. After years in private practice, he chose to undertake a Hair Restoration Fellowship. This involved extensive training in all areas of hair loss treatment and restoration.

Dr. Marko first became involved in hair restoration through his own personal patient experience. “I was extremely pleased with my results and became more interested in how it was done,” he said.

The fact that he was a patient first helps to alleviate anxiety for many patients. “I’ve had the surgical procedure myself as well as laser restoration therapy. I have achieved desirable, natural looking results. I can tell my patients this from both the patient and doctor perspective.”

“I have had many satisfying patient experiences. The greatest compliment is when a patient refers a friend or relative to see me,” said Dr. Marko. “That level of satisfaction shows their faith in my ability.”

Dr. Marko has trained with the best hair restoration surgeons in the world. His surgical backgrounds, interest in cosmetic surgery and artistic ability give him the necessary qualities to be one of the best hair restoration surgeons in the world. He is also involved with continuing medical education programs and has presented research findings to international medical organizations.

“Being a hair restoration specialist provides a great environmental for patient interaction. It is an enjoyable, relaxed atmosphere. Patients return happy, with renewed self-esteem. It is very rewarding.”

In 1999, Dr. Amerson made history by opening the first U.S. Trichology Training Center in Arlington, Texas, L.A.'s Hair and Scalp Clinic. She serves as the center's director and trains aspiring trichologists from all over the world. A sought after lecturer, Dr. Amerson travels throughout the U.S., St. Thomas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados speaking at national and international hair conventions and seminars.

Dr. Amerson's awards and honors include the Industry Educator Award, Trichologist of the Year, the Madame C. J. Walker Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Leadership Gold Cup Award, Cosmetologist of the Year Award and the 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, just to name a few. Additionally, she has served as the Assistant Dean of Education for the Texas State Institute and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Trichology.

Active in the community, Dr. Amerson has been a volunteer in the Big Brothers and Big Sisters program for over 6 years, previously coordinated annual back-to-school beauty makeovers for underprivileged children, assists with local women's shelters, works with the Shriners Burn Hospital, and volunteers with the Wigs for Kids program. In her ongoing effort to give back, during the Hurricane Katrina tragedy, she offered complimentary microscopic hair and scalp analysis to Katrina evacuees in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Dr. Dan Hale
Board-Certified Hair Transplant Surgeon and
Laser Hair Therapy Specialist

Hair Edge is pleased to announce our affiliation with Dr. Dan Hale. Dr. Hale is a board-certified hair transplant surgeon. In Dr. Hale's clinic, he and his staff provides hair restoration services to some of the most celebrated individual’s in the entertainment industry. Dr. Hale was one of the first hair transplant surgeons to integrate laser hair therapy into a medical practice.

Here is a recent article of Dr. Hale’s published in the journal of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgeons:

Laser Hair Therapy
………up close and personal

Article by Dr. Daniel Hale, hair transplant surgeon, with permission of the ISHRS Journal

My clinical experience with laser hair therapy is a personal one. Although my own hair loss was too far advanced to benefit from this new technology, I witnessed first-hand the impressive results achieved by my nephews Drew, age 21 and Dane, age 19.

Both had inherited the genetic predisposition that had frustrated me, their father and their grandfather. In their late teens, my nephews were already manifesting the symptoms that would have them joining us on the seventh-rung of the Norwood Classification, hair loss ladder.

In 1998, my brother Don Hale integrated laser hair therapy into his Grand Rapids hair restoration clinic where his son Drew, became our first patient. At first I was skeptical. Although laser hair therapy was gaining acceptance in Europe and other parts of the globe, there were no empirical US studies to suggest that it provided a therapeutic benefit.

The “cold” laser, imported from Europe, was a “hooded” model under which the patient sat for thirty minutes while 15 laser diodes rotated around the cranium, delivering soft laser energy to the scalp.

We carefully monitored and recorded Drew’s progress and after three months of twice-weekly visits we began to see measurable results. There was a copious, overall improvement in hair shaft quality as well as hair shaft thickness. Drew’s vertex area began to exhibit new growth as did the anterior hair line. My nephew proved not to be an isolated case and over the last five years I have observed similar results in the majority of my patients.

I soon became a student of low level laser therapy and quickly remembered that the word, “laser” is an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The theory was first described by Albert Einstein who paved the way for the development of the therapeutic laser.

My research taught me that serious investigation into LLLT began in the late sixties with Dr. Andre Mester of Hungary. While conducting wound-healing experiments on laboratory mice, Professor Mester observed not only improved healing of wounds, but that body hair in the laser treated areas grew faster and thicker than hair in the untreated areas.

In our own hair transplant practice we have observed that LLLT promotes faster healing of the donor and recipient sites, while reducing inflammation. I attribute this rapid re-generation; normalization and healing of damaged cellular tissue to improved blood circulation and vasodilatation.

Tina Karu, PHD of the Laser Technology Center in Russia has researched the effect of light on cells since the 1980’s. She found there are photo receptors at the molecular level, which absorb light and provoke a chain-reaction of cellular events. These include DNA/RNA synthesis, increased protein and collagen synthesis as well as cellular proliferation. Dr. Karu confirmed that light is a trigger for the rearrangement of cellular metabolism.

Laser hair therapy has earned a place of respect in our clinics and has proved to be a viable option for individuals in the early stages of hair loss as well as women suffering from general thinning. It has also proved to be a useful post operative tool for promoting healing as well as stimulating the growth of new grafts.

We welcome these three highly qualified doctors into the Boston hair loss treatment center, Hair Edge, and look forward to seeing you soon.