Hair Transplant Surgery

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.