Laser Hair Transplant

What is a laser hair transplant? The role of lasers is to create the holes or slits for the grafts to be inserted into. Until lasers are engaged in other main components of the transplant, such as harvesting, graft dissection, or placing, laser hair transplant should be replaced with a term laser site creation to more precisely explain its present role in the rocedure.

The claim that laser hair transplant is a painless process is misleading. The lasers create a hole by simply vaporizing tissue. Because of this, the laser is extremely painful unless local anesthesia is administered. So, it is not the laser that is painless. The pain-free environment is set up by the anesthesia.

The preparation of hair grafts is identical in both conventional and laser hair transplant. The difference is that laser hair transplantation uses a machine that shoots a beam of high energy light burning in the scalp, while cold steel is used to make slits conventionally. The hair grafts are then transplanted into the slits manually.

Disadvantages of laser hair transplant:

The laser beam burns tissues, damages existing hairs and seals blood vessels around the transplant areas.

The yield of growing hairs on the laser hair transplanted side is visibly lower.

Longer post-op crusting time.

Delay in hair growth.

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