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Hair implant leaves woman permanently bald: suit

A Manhattan woman claims in a $15 million lawsuit that she she went to a local hair clinic for an implant procedure — and wound up permanently bald.

But Microdot, the Midtown company that treated Deborah Betesh, says there isn’t a strand of truth to her tale.

Karen Decileo, a rep for the firm, says she believes that Betesh is pulling her own hair out and that she’s just “disgruntled” because she invested $250,000 in a now-foundering alternative medical technique.

In her million Manhattan civil suit filed Tuesday, Betesh, 56, says she underwent treatments from April 2012 to April 2014 after Microdot pledged to give her “the hair of her dreams.”

“Not only would Microdot technique exactly match the color and texture of her natural hair, it would allow her to among other things, wash her hair, use a curling iron or even put it in a ponytail,” the company pledged to Betesh, according to court papers.

When the procedure, which required surgically implanting hair into her scalp, left bald patches instead of the promised head of healthy hair, a Microdot staffer tried to weave more hair into Betesh’s remaining strands, the suit says.

That too fell out.

The person who performed the medical procedure was only licensed in cosmetology, the suit says.

Betesh eventually had to buy a “permanent artificial wig for several thousands of dollars,” according to court papers.

But Decileo told The Post that Betesh only paid the company for nonsurgical treatment that runs up to $4,800 and is similar to getting hair extensions.

Decileo contends Betesh is upset because she had invested $250,000 in an alternative medical technique by Microdot founder James Costa called Derma-Dot.

But Costa was recently diagnosed with congestive heart failure, and Betesh “was annoyed that [Derma-Dot] wasn’t going forward and she wanted out” according to Decileo.

Betesh declined comment to The Post.