Truett Bridges Jr. MD

Physician and author Mercer Truett Bridges, Jr., MD, has focused his work on the management of pain during and after hair restoration surgery. As President and Medical Director of Global Aesthetics, LLC, based in Atlanta, Truett Bridges, MD, has become an expert in the hair restoration process. He regularly helps patients facing hair loss through surgical interventions such as the follicular unit extraction (FUE) harvest technique. Dr. Bridges also builds upon his training as an anesthesiologist and expert in medical acupuncture to help other physicians in his field improve their pain management practices.

Truett Bridges, MD, is a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia, where he received his Doctor of Medicine and completed his internship and residency in anesthesiology. During his residency, Dr. Bridges received the Robert D. Dripps, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Resident in Anesthesiology. He also received the grand prize for his presentation, “Volatile Anesthetics and NMDA Receptors,” at the Gulf Atlantic Anesthesia Residents’ Research Conference, held at the Tulane University School of Medicine. Upon the completion of his residency, Dr. Bridges enrolled in the University of California, Los Angeles’ Course in Medical Acupuncture, also known as The Helms Course. This combination of Western and alternative approaches to patient care has informed his practice ever since. Mercer Truett Bridges, Jr., MD, has presented on the topic of medical acupuncture at Emory University and as a member of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery. He has also published journal articles in Medical Acupuncture, as well as written numerous educational articles and pamphlets.

In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Bridges is a committed humanitarian. He has volunteered at the Shree Muktanada Mobile Hospital in India’s Maharashtra province, and served as a volunteer physician at the Beulah Land Natural Medicine Clinic in Thebes, Illinois. Dr. Bridges continues to raise money for cancer awareness and research.