Meet your hair educator
Lee Millard.
Country boy from Pennsylvania, school-teacher, coach, gym owner,
Musclegram founder, Mr. Las Vegas, hair-transplant patient and
MAX DENSITY® trademark holder.
I'm the guy who will actually sit down with you and tell you
everything I've learned about hair restoration.
I'm not a doctor. I don't pretend to be one. I'm the person who will answer all of your questions honestly and walk you through every option. I'll tell you when something isn't a good idea — even if it costs me a sale. After 30 years in hair restoration, that's the only way I know how to do it.
The hair story
I started losing my hair in the 80s. Here's how it all went down for me.
I noticed it first after a workout at Millard's Fitness Center. I was looking in the mirror and I saw it! My hair was thinning! I was 29 years old and it hit me like a ton of bricks. My grandfather was bald and two of my uncles were bald. Oh no! I'm going to be bald!
I'd built a life around working out and taking care of my body, and now this thing was happening on my head that I couldn't lift my way out of. Creative hair styling hid the hair loss for a little while, but it wouldn't be long before I knew I had to do something.
I moved to Las Vegas in 1984 to promote Musclegram and compete in bodybuilding. I trained at Eiferman's Gym and made a lot of friends. I won Mr. Las Vegas in 1985, and in 1990 Steve Karr and I promoted the first NPC Las Vegas Classic. Now in its 37th year, the competition is the IFBB / NPC Steve Karr Las Vegas Classic.
In 1993, I got my first hair transplant. It was a FUT (strip) procedure of 200 grafts. Yes! 200 grafts. That's all. The industry was shifting from plug hair transplants (15–20 hairs in a plug — the doll-head look) to more refined procedures of individual hair follicles (1, 2, 3 or 4 hairs — a natural look). The procedures were small, but as time went on larger procedures (2,000–3,000 grafts) became the norm. I've had FUT and FUE procedures and I'll give you my feelings about both of them.
I spent the next thirty years on the patient advocate side of this industry. I had FUT — strip surgery — and learned about scarring and donor management. I had FUE and learned why graft survival rates matter more than graft counts. As a Patient Educator, I worked with doctors and teams in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach, Austin, Nashville, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and Las Vegas. I've learned the good, the bad and the ugly, and I share everything I can to help patients make the best decision for themselves.
In consultations I talk to patients in plain English about what is actually going to happen. I'm transparent about everything so there are no surprises. Men and women get all the details. We do it different, and we have a way to combine donor mapping, scalp-flexibility assessment, and a trained surgical team that extracts and transplants the maximum number of grafts possible in a single session. We trademarked it: MAX DENSITY®. Today there are exactly three doctors in the United States certified to perform it.
And I'm still on the patient side, too. Still managing my own results, still tweaking, still learning. That's the only reason I'd ever ask you to trust me with yours.
The progression
Pennsylvania, 1982
Before any of this, there was a gym in Reading, PA.
I grew up a country boy in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. I loved fishing and spent many days on the banks of the Schuylkill River. I loved sports and was a member of the cross country, wrestling and track teams at Daniel Boone High School. I graduated from Kutztown State College in 1975 and taught 9th grade American History at Exeter Junior High School from 1976 to 1980. I helped students with weight training and coached the wrestling team.
What I really wanted, though, was a gym. So I opened Millard's Fitness Center, 414 Blair Avenue, Reading, PA — 1982. $109 for a one-year membership and a free T-shirt with the ad. Reading's Finest Male & Female Athletes worked out there, and we had a team who competed in bodybuilding competitions. I wanted to look like those guys in the magazines — Arnold Schwarzenegger and Frank Zane were two of my favorites. Sandy Williamson trained with us, and is the legendary IFBB / NPC head bodybuilding judge who's been involved in the sport for more than four decades.
Mr. Las Vegas
The Vegas years.
The year after Mr. Las Vegas, Strength & Health Magazine — March 1986 issue — put me on the cover with Georgia Fudge. It was one of the last issues that magazine ever printed. The York Barbell Company shut it down later that year, so I always say I made the cover just in time.
I kept showing up to bodybuilding shows in Las Vegas for the next forty years, and co-promoted Steve Karr's Las Vegas Classic with him for two decades after that first one. In 2024, the bodybuilding community gave me an award for forty years of contribution to the sport in this city. That one meant a lot.
Scrapbook
Musclegram
And then there was Musclegram.
Musclegram started back in Pennsylvania — a posing routine you could send to somebody — and Las Vegas in the 80s was a town that liked a spectacle, so that's where I took it. You'd hire us, we'd show up at the office, the restaurant, the bachelorette party, the birthday — bowtie, wristbands, the works — and do a professional posing routine as a "telegram." Singing telegrams existed. We made the muscle version. It was the cleanest, most family-friendly version of the thing you can imagine — think singing telegram, just with bowties and trapezius muscles.
Musclegram took off. We had a crew, matching tank tops, themed costumes — gladiators, Spider-Man, you name it — and we delivered to everyone from local birthdays to people you'd recognize. Joan Rivers got one for Valentine's Day. Kenny Rogers said hi backstage one night. There's a photo of me with Siegfried and Roy somewhere from the same era — Vegas was a small town if you knew the right people.
(A film about the Musclegram years is in early pre-production. I'll have more to say about it when there's something firm to say.)
Today
Forty years later, I'm still doing the things I love.
I'm still in the gym. I still put on the bowtie occasionally — habits are habits. I still answer the phone when patients call, and I still walk every patient who comes through the door through every option on the table, including the ones I don't make a dollar from.
I work out of Dr. Khorsandi's VIP Plastic Surgery — he runs the medical side, I run the patient side. He's one of the three doctors in the country licensed to perform MAX DENSITY®, and we've been doing it together long enough that I trust him with my own head. That's the only reason I trust him with yours.
Straight from Google
Hear it from the men who've been through it.
“Simply the best. The best place to get online checkup back. It all started with Lee. He is perfect at explaining exactly what will happen. Everything he said happened and beautiful job done. Guys don't waste any time going anywhere else.”
Mi Jobs
Local Guide · 273 reviews
2 months ago
“Fantastic experience from start to finish. Lee was excellent with the consultation and guided me through the whole process and gave me peace of mind. Willie and the team made the procedure as stress free as possible.”
Blaine Klos
2 months ago
“Great experience overall. Lee and the team were fantastic from start to finish. Extremely responsive and knowledgeable. I was going to go to Turkey for my hair transplant but opted for staying stateside because they were so good.”
Drew Brewer
Local Guide
4 months ago
Consultations
Pick up the phone. I'll answer.
Consultations are free. I'll look at your photos, listen to what you actually want, and get them in front of Dr. Khorsandi for a straight answer on what's possible — and what isn't. You'll get the truth whether or not you book.
Call or text Lee · 702-994-2133Free consultations. Las Vegas, inside VIP Plastic Surgery.