Hair Transplant Surgery

Wednesday 6 February 2013

Hair transplant surgery; a personality supplement

If you have been suffering from hair loss consistently, you can better understand how much it speaks upon your personality. The worst part of hair loss may be your apparent baldness or thinning down of hair on the central part of your scalp. Such a situation may lead to opt for hair transplant surgery which involves restructuring of a new hairline. Besides the surgical skill, it involves an aesthetic bent of mind. Because of the delicacy and special skill that it calls for, hair transplantation necessitates forethought and planning. It is thus a science as well as an art.

Hair transplantation is a surgical operation where in hair is taken from the back of your head and planted at the area of hair loss. It is based on the concept that the hair grown at back and sides of your balding scalp, known as donor dominating hair, continues to grow throughout one’s life, even after being removed from the root. Thus, if you have enough of donor hair on your back and sides, you can successfully go in for a hair transplantation surgery. The latest technique has facilitated transplant surgery even in case of insufficient donor hair.

Consequent upon the rapid advancement in Hair Transplantation, a number of techniques are adopted for getting fruitful results.

1.Punch grafting is an outdated technique in which the hair so planted gives appearance of paddy or toothbrush. Therefore, before going in for hair transplantation, get confirmed about the technique that your surgeon is going to undertake.

2.Single hair-grafts give a soft and fine appearance to your overall personality, although it initially lacks the density but never the less, providing the critical soft line.

3.Mini/Micro-grafting involves small grafts containing 2 to 3 strings of hair. These are placed behind the hairline so as to add to the density of the hairline subsequently.

4.Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) is a changed version of single hair transplants. Follicular unit in its natural form contains 1 to3 strings of hair that are grafted on the hair less areas, along with newly created hair, looking natural. The latest technique in use is Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), done by utilization of strip method in which a strip of skin from the back of the head are dissected, after being highly magnified and the donor is closed by a stitch-less technique. By this method, 300 to 5000 grafts can be placed within 5 to 6 hours.

FUE suits those requiring larger areas to be covered with new hair and can afford for it is costly. You may find scar marks of 2-4 mm on each site of extraction.

5.Tissue Expansion and Flap surgery is applied where good quality skin is not available due to burn. The result however is not as good as that derived from Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation.

6.Mega transplant: If you are subjected to progressive hair loss and more density of hair on your bald, the specially skilled hair Transplant surgeon can make a large number of transplant by adopting one method.