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Superstar vocalist Justin Bieber is known for his boyish bully looks, but cosmetic surgeons deliberation that these days he whitethorn person had a small 'help' to execute a cardinal portion of this youthful appearance.
In a caller illuminating video clip, New York City integrative surgeon Dr Gary Linkov revealed convincing grounds that Bieber, 30, has undergone a hairsbreadth transplant to reconstruct measurement successful his locks.
Dr Linkov shows 2 intriguing images that look to propose that nan singer's hairline has miraculously changed wrong nan abstraction of 2 years.
It would besides explicate why nan prima has seldom been photographed without a chapeau connected aliases hoodie covering his caput successful nan past fewer years.
In 1 image, taken astatine nan 2022 Super Bowl successful Inglewood, California, Bieber — who is joined to exemplary and influencer Hailey Bieber, 27 — is seen sporting a shaved head, and his hairline appears to beryllium receding and his hairsbreadth alternatively sparse.
But successful different image, shared by nan prima earlier this week, his hairsbreadth is amazingly full, pinch his hairline consecutive and even.
Bieber was snapped correct astatine nan Super Bowl successful February 2022 pinch a hairline that had reversed astatine nan sides of his scalp. But successful a photograph he posted conscionable past week this appeared to person disappeared, pinch him now having overmuch fuller locks
In this July 2018 threat taken successful New York City, Bieber was photographed pinch agelong hairsbreadth - but again had signs of a receding hairline astatine nan sides of his scalp
Surgeon Dr Gary Linkov said: 'When I look astatine his forehead, [the hairline is now] overmuch flatter, it doesn't person that recession.
'And erstwhile nan hairsbreadth is wet, you tin show nan regularity of nan [hairline], truthful it looks for illustration possibly he did person a transplant.'
Dr Jim Harris, a integrative surgeon besides successful New York City, added: 'There's nary medicine that's going to move a receding hairline around. I think, based connected [photos], I would say, he has apt had a hairsbreadth restoration surgery.'
The experts person besides highlighted that Bieber often steps retired successful nationalist wearing a chapeau aliases a hood, which whitethorn person disguised nan telltale hairsbreadth regrowth pursuing a hairsbreadth transplant procedure.
Dr Linkov said: 'He started to deterioration each these hats [in 2022] and he's covering up his hairsbreadth truthful that it's difficult to show what was going on.
'And remember, hairsbreadth transplants tin return up to a year, possibly a twelvemonth and a half, to spot last results.'
Dr Harris said: 'In a photograph from 2023 I announcement that Justin's hairline looks flatter.
'A fewer years anterior to that successful 2018, he had a definite recession, very scalloped frontal hairline. [But] now it's flatter onto his forehead — overmuch much linear.
Surgeons said Bieber had apt received a Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) to capable successful nan mislaid hair, peculiarly astir nan apical corners of his face.
In this procedure, doctors return hairsbreadth follicles from nan backmost of nan caput and implant them into nan beforehand to switch mislaid hair.
It tin beryllium done successful a measurement that covers up scarring connected nan backmost of nan head, making it difficult to show if personification has had nan procedure.
Dr Linkov estimated Bieber had had up to 1,800 follicles transferred, astatine nan higher extremity of nan normal magnitude of 500 to 1,500.
Bieber, pictured supra successful September 2021 (left) and successful nan aforesaid period (right) attending nan Met Gala, was pictured pinch a thinning hairline astatine these events
Over nan past 2 years, Bieber has been many times pictured wearing hats aliases pinch his hood up — obscuring immoderate changes successful his hairline. Surgeons said it could return astatine slightest a twelvemonth for immoderate hairsbreadth transplant to settle. He is pictured, left, successful November 2022 successful Los Angeles and successful January 2023 successful New York City
Estimates propose astir 85 percent of men — including Bieber — suffer from immoderate benignant of hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment successful their lifetime, known arsenic antheral shape baldness.
This is wherever hairsbreadth follicles statesman to shrink and dice disconnected astatine nan beforehand of nan caput aliases astatine nan crown, often linked to age-related shifts successful hormones.
Other celebrities that look to person had akin treatments see 34-year-old vocalist Machine Gun Kelly and 39-year-old Prince Harry.
Bieber's hairsbreadth first showed signs of thinning successful 2017 astatine nan property of 23, erstwhile surgeons said they could spot signs nan hairline was receding astatine nan front.
They termed it androgenic alopecia, aliases erstwhile hairsbreadth follicles shrink complete clip owed to shifts successful hormones that shorten nan hairsbreadth maturation cycle.
In 2021 Bieber was pictured pinch dreadlocks, which surgeons warned could origin traction alopecia — a shape of hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment caused by prolonged hostility aliases pulling connected nan follicles.
In 2022 he was pictured pinch a drastically reversed hairline connected some sides astatine nan beforehand of his head.
There were besides reports successful 2016 that Bieber, past 21, was suffering parts of hairsbreadth 'falling retired successful clumps' because of his bleached blonde look.
Bieber has antecedently slammed Prince William for his receding hairline, saying: 'I mean, location are things to forestall that nowadays for illustration Propecia [a hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment drug].
'I don't cognize why he doesn't conscionable get those things, those products... person you not sewage it complete here?'
