Hair Transplant Surgery

Hair transplant surgery is a growing trend. However, there are still numerous people who do not know how hair transplant surgery is done. The following information will explain the hair transplant surgery and answer some questions.

1. Every man looses hair. There is not much that can be done to stop this process. There are topical and oral drugs that can be taken to slow the hair loss process, but if they are stopped, the process resumes. An individual can use cover ups such as toupees or hair weaves, but they do not look very natural. The hair transplant surgery uses hair from the body (usually the back of the head) that is not supposed to fall out to replace the missing hair.

2. The very first step involved in a hair transplant surgery is for the doctor to draw a replacement hairline for the patient. Then the scalp is numbed and the donor hairs are shaved. Once this is done, the skin that the donor hairs are attached to is removed from the head.

3. The scalp then gets sutured or stapled together and the donor hairs are given to technicians. The technicians remove every individual hair follicle and place them into a saline solution where they will await transplant. Meanwhile, the doctor is busy cutting small incisions into the front of the head within the hairline that was drawn earlier. There needs to be a separate incision for each follicle that is to be transplanted. There can be 2,000 follicles per transplant.

4. Once the doctor has all of the cuts made, it is time to put in every hair follicle. This is done on an individual basis, very carefully, to make sure that the follicles are inserted in the right direction allowing the hair to grow straight. The doctor then examines the work that has been done, when the desired outcome has been obtained, the hair transplant surgery is completed.

5. In about a week or so, the incisions have started to heal, the scabs have fallen off. However, it will take up to a year for real hair growth to appear. In order to avoid an additional hair transplant surgery, it is recommended that the patient use a drug such as Propecia. The repeated use of this drug will help to reduce the necessity for another hair transplant surgery.

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