Tessica Brown and Dr. Michael Obeng
Tessica Brown, a Louisiana woman who gained national attention in the USA after using Gorilla Glue in her hair, has gained her freedom after undergoing a special procedure to have the glue removed from her hair.
She finally has sweet relief, courtesy the surgery by Ghanaian Dr. Michael Obeng.
TMZ reported that Tessica took up the Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Obeng’s offer to perform the $12,500 procedure for free, and it was a pretty grueling process… about four hours long!
Tessica had swapped out her normal hair spray for Gorilla Glue Spray Adhesive, thinking she’d be able to wash it out a few hours later. Since then she’s been through the wringer … suffering severe headaches, trying at-home remedies and even went to the Emergency Room (ER), but everything just made her scalp burn intensely.
She had flown into Los Angeles from Louisiana Wednesday morning hoping Dr. Obeng could do what she’d tried, unsuccessfully, to do for more than a month now.
Tessica was kept under a light anesthesia during the surgical procedure, and her reaction as she came out of it was amazing. She immediately reached for her hair. She got pretty choked up once she realized she could once again run her fingers through it.
Dr. Obeng broke down his secret recipe to TMZ, explaining it was all just basic chemistry. In a nutshell, he indicated he combined medical grade adhesive remover, aloe vera, olive oil and a dash of acetone.
He said that’s all it took to break down the polyurethane; the main ingredient in Gorilla Glue.
The only small relief Tessica had gotten before her Beverly Hills visit, came last weekend when she and her sister used superglue remover to chop off her ponytail.
Speaking of that ponytail, she says she can’t wait to get her hair back to that length, and it is pretty amazing how much of her hair Dr. Obeng was able to save.
Tessica had said that she was prepared to wear wigs for the rest of her life — but after the procedure, she won’t need them for too long.