Hair Transplant Surgery

Friday, 12 July 2013

Professionals have made hair restoration more facile!

In society appearances are far more important than they used to be. People want a youthful look and baldness is seen as a mark of ageing.Hair loss is typically considered the domain of aging men, but this equal-opportunity condition — which has many causes — can affect virtually any age group. Alopecia, the medical term for hair loss, doesn’t happen only on scalp. Some illnesses and medications can elicit balding over the entire body, though genetics account for 90 percent of all cases on the head.The most common form of baldness and hair loss is a progressive hair-thinning condition that occurs in adult humans and other primate species.
Variety of factors are responsible for hair loss and baldness which includes:

1.Harsh hairstyles or treatments: Hairstyles that frequently use rubber bands, rollers or barrettes, or pull their hair into tight styles such as cornrows, can inflame their hair follicles and hence leave a scar on the hair follicles.Similarly chemical products such as dyes, bleaches, straighteners, rebonding or permanent wave solutions affect hair follicles equally. Depending on the degree of damage resulting from such factors,the hair loss can be permanent.

2.Hormone asymmetry: In women, hormonal imbalance from birth control pills, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause can induce more hair follicles to inflame and thus they  then enter from normal phase to the dormant phase.

3.Bad health or surgery: The stress from sickness or surgery may trigger the body to temporarily cease nonessential tasks such as hair production. Certain conditions can also trigger it, including thyroid disorders, syphilis,pottassium and iron deficiency, lupus or severe infection. An immune condition called alopecia areata, which is incurable, causes rapid body-wide hair loss.

4.Medications and supplements: Cancer chemotherapy attacks hair follicles in order to kill all fast-growing cells around the body,this is a well-known reason for hair loss. Other antidote side effects include hair fall as well, such as some that diagnose high blood pressure and gout (a painful joint condition caused by a excess uric acid in body). Excess levels of vitamin A also contribute to inflammation of hair follicles.

5.Nutritional deficiency: Heavy dieting or eating anarchy such as bulimia and anorexia can temporarily astound hair follicles to culminate growth. This can also occur from deficient proteins, vitamins and mineral intake.

6.Aging: A natural consequence of growing older is slowed hair growth.

Genetic hair loss is the only hair loss in which the follicle constantly gets smaller and inflammed and produces smaller and finer hair until it stops altogether and then you get the thinning.This is the alarming condition for those who are suffering hair loss.

In all cases of thinning of hair, and especially in cases of severe hair loss, it is recommended to take advice from a doctor or dermatologist. Many types of thinning have an elementary genetic or health-involving cause, which a qualified professional will be able to predict and diagnose. Effective hair replacement techniques which are widely being adopted by peolpe are FUT and FUE procedures. Many of the latest advances are Minodoxil Treatments which is available over the counter for diagnose of androgenic alopecia, but measurable changes, if are experienced, disappear within months after cessation of treatment. FUT termed as Follicular Unit Transplantation is a hair recovery technique where a patient's hair is transplanted in follicular units which are naturally occurring in groups of 1 to 4 hairs. Follicular units also consist of sebaceous glands, nerves, a small muscle, and occasional vellus hairs. In Follicular Unit Transplantation the small units allow the surgeon to safely transplant thousands of follicles in a single session, which exaggerates the cosmetic impact of the surgery.FUE termed as Follicular Unit Extraction involves harvesting of  individual follicular units which are extracted directly from the patient's donor area, ideally one follicle at a time. This differs from strip-harvesting also called FUT because, in strip harvesting, a strip of skin is taken from the patient and then sectioned into many individual follicular units. FUT and FUE are both primary hair transplantation processes employed worldwide and they offer fast and early recovery.

Saturday, 1 June 2013

Find the best Hair transplant service in India

Baldness can no more be a deterrent to your personality. With the advancement of medical technologies, it is now possible to avail hair transplant service in India. Before considering transplantation of hair, it is pertinent to know that baldness is caused mainly due to hair loss. A number of reasons are attributable to hair loss. These are genetic, environmental, hormonal imbalance and stress. Hair transplantation involves minute and delicate surgical operation. There are qualified and experienced surgeons in India who can transplant hair to your exact requirement. 

Several new hair transplantation techniques have emerged. In surgical method, hair follicles are taken from any hair-prone part of the body and transplanted on bald patches on the scalp. The planted area is known as recipient site. This operation is adopted for correcting baldness of males. This hair transplantation technique has been successful in restoring hair on several deserving parts of the body viz. eyebrows, lashes, chest, beard, and bottoms too. The technique is equally beneficial in restoring skin damaged in accidents, surgical scares, and even for face lift. In this process, very small grafts are transplanted. In contrast, skin transplantation involves single strip of skin.

Follicular Unit Transplantation, better known as FUT renders natural appearance to hair.Natural hair grows in the grouping of one to four hairs. So, the FUT technique harvests and transplants these grouped follicular units for hair to look naturally growing.

Strip harvesting involves removal of a strip of scalp through surgical procedure. The wound is then stitched for recovery. Then, the strip is divided into small sizes and then grafted on a desired space. Prior to that area of the scalp is required to be thinned by the surgeon. The donor area is left with a liner scar looking like a pencil line. But these minute scars are not visible as they are covered by other hair of the patient. The wound is completely recovered within about two weeks, after which the staples of stitches are removed by a trained medical personnel.

FUE harvesting; abbreviated from Follicular Unit Extraction is the latest and most common hair transplantation service in India. With the application of local anesthesia one to four numbers of hairs are removed from the donor area. With the use of a placement tool, each of the tiny follicles is inserted into the recipient site. There will be almost no mark of scar left. The pain too is the minimal. There is no need of removal of suture. Therefore, you get total recovery within a short period of seven days. However, if further transplant is needed in future, it becomes difficult to find a good strip.

Before selecting for hair transplantation service in India, you need to consider certain important factors. The technique of hair transplantation has been most advanced in the USA, the surgeon who is professionally qualified from the States. The needles and other surgery equipments must be most sophisticated and imported. Both FUT and FUE have their own advantages and disadvantages. Besides, your need and budget, insist upon the experience of the surgeon for availing hair transplantation service in India.

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.