Know everything about hair transplant
Hair transplant is the latest craze not only for
those who have lost their hair to untimely fall but even for them who want to
alter their hairlines or acquire an attractive mane. But are hair transplants
really safe and successful? Is it a lasting process or does this procedure
result in unwarranted tissue changes in body?
Steps for
hair transplant
It is a
surgical process that involves removal of hair follicles from any site in the
body like face or legs and planting them on the hairless portion. This process
is also used in transplanting hair in lashes and brows. The latest techniques
are permanent and they pick up follicular clusters of hair. This process is
called Follicular Hair Transplantation (FUT) which can be done in two ways,
strip harvesting and follicular unit extraction (FUE).
In strip
harvesting, skin strips with good hair growth are planted on balding areas and
in follicular unit extraction hair clusters with their roots are manually
removed and planted at the hairless site.
Strip
harvesting is what the surgeons are mostly adopting these days. It leaves a
slim scar at the donor site and promises recovery within two weeks.
FUE can
be done in a single or several settings. It is a manual and time taking process
but gives very natural results and leaves behind no marks. However, it is not a
cost effective process and is time consuming both for the doctor and the
patient. However use of robotics has reduced the time in this process and
simplified it immensely.
Here are
the steps:
1.
Preparation for the hair transplant
In the
initial step of the Hair Transplant Surgery, hair follicles from the back of
the head are removed and relocated to the balding areas.
2. Donor
area trimmed
Before
the surgery is started, the hair in the donor area are trimmed.
3. Donor
area prepared for surgery
Once the
hair in the donor area are trimmed it is given local anesthesia.
4. Tissue
in the donor area removed and the Donor area sutured.
The
tissue in the donor area that contains the bald resistant hair follicles is
then removed surgically and the donor area is sutured.
5. Combed
hair over sutured donor area
The
sutures in the donor area are hidden from the patient's hair that are combed
over them. These sutures are removed almost ten days after the hair transplant surgery.
6. Donor
tissue trimmed into follicular unit grafts
Microscopes
are then used by the surgical technicians to view the donor tissue for
dissecting and preparing follicular units hair grafts.
7. Bald
recipient area prepared
Once the
local anesthesia is given to the patient, the balding recipient area is
prepared for the surgical process No trimming/removal of hair is required at
the top of the recipient area.
8.
Incisions made in the balding areas
Follicular
Unit Grafts are placed in the tiny incisions that are made in an irregular
pattern in the recipient area.
9. Grafts
placed according to their densities
The
smallest grafts (one and two) are placed in front of the hairline and three and
four (denser than one and two) are placed behind.
10.
Immediately after the Hair Transplant Surgery
After the
hair transplant surgery, tiny incisions with short hair would be visible on the
patients operated area.
The
incision marks heal naturally and the redness in the recipient area vanishes
itself within a week.
Recuperation
time
Hair transplant is a non invasive procedure and
is on several occasions done on an outpatient basis. Mostly patients are
allowed to shampoo after two three days although the scalp needs to be
protected from sun and infections for a while after the surgery. The patients
is generally put on antibiotics for a few days.
Must know
facts about hair transplant:
1) The
transplanted hair behaves like natural hair and sheds between two to four weeks
of transplant. The roots thereafter start sprouting hair naturally and continue
to do so for a lifetime.
2) Use of
local anesthesia makes it a painless procedure and the patient can go home the
same day.
3) Hair
transplant is different from non-surgical hair restoration in which a
pre-chosen base is fixed on scalp with dexterity.
4) Hair transplant does not mean you will have a luxurious crop of
hair as the result varies from person to person and has also some link with a
person's natural hair quality.
5) Every
case of baldness does not have a solution in hair transplantation. It entirely
depends on case to case basis.
6) The
cost of the procedure depends on the number of grafts. The more the number of
grafts, the higher the cost.
If you are looking for hair transplant clinic, you can visit Yashi Skin
& Hair Clinic.
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