Hair Loss Treatment

Hair Transplants

Posted on 23 January 2012

Hair Transplants: I don’t want to be Bald

Hair transplantation is a minor surgical procedure done with the goal of growing hair in certain bald body parts. As with other transplant procedures, a donor and a recipient should be present. This type of procedure is far different from skin grafting since it requires a big part of the skin (epidermis and dermis) to be given to another body part; hair transplants only aim to attain hair which is why their main concern is the hair glands and not the whole skin itself.

Hair Transplants: Choosing a Doctor

A hair transplant expert is the highly preferred doctor for hair transplants. The question is do you know how to choose an expert? In order to spot experts you have to ask questions from one clinic to another and one doctor to another. Ask questions like, is being a hair transplant specialist your full time job? Or do you have any other specialties?  How many patients have you treated with the same problem like mine? How many of them have failed and have succeeded? Do you have any patients whom I can talk to about your work?

Hair Transplants: Various Types

Follicular unit extraction (FUE) and Standard strip method are the 2 types of hair transplantation. FUE involves punching needles into the donor’s skull. The needle used in FUE is used to take hair follicles as small and as numerous as possible. The standard strip method on the other hand is the conventional way of transplanting hair follicles. It uses a scalpel and makes an incision on the donor’s scalp to acquire the hair follicles needed.

Both of these methods are minor surgeries that entail anaesthetics and possible scarring after the healing period. They both require a specific period of time in order to heal (donor’s scalp) and grow (donor and recipient’s scalp).

Which Hair Transplant Method is Better?

Deciding the better method between the two hair transplant surgeries is not as easy as it sounds since there are numerous factors involves that defines the success of the surgery. The most important factor that should be taken seriously is the skill of the surgeon. It is true that certain theories that created the FUE believe that it is much better than the latter, but the skill of the surgeon says otherwise. Other surgeons are extremely good when it comes to the traditional method while others are quite skilled in FUE.

Other factors involved are the prices of the surgery and the availability of the procedure in your area.

The two transplant surgeries could be compared to the two punches of a boxer; a jab and a straight. Other boxers and analysts say one punch is better while the other says otherwise.

Hair Transplants: Scars?

All types of surgery will give you a scar. An absence of such may mean that a surgery never took place. Provided that your doctors are good, scars from the surgery will be hard to find because they are small and they are hidden by your hair.

Recent advancements are also being made in order to lessen the appearance of scars both from follicular unit extraction and strip method.

The success of the surgery of your hair transplant depends on the hands of your doctor whether he/she is really good or not. The type of surgery is relatively unimportant compared to the ability of the practitioner. Be very wise is choosing your doctor.