Hair Transplant

If we take into consideration how many people experience hair loss, then the popularity of hair removal today is not surprising. Recent statistics show that 40-50% of men and women will suffer from hair loss by age 50. According to the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) hair restoration procedures, conducted worldwide have increased up to 34% from 2004 to 2006. This world’s leading medical authority on hair loss estimated that there were about 645,281 hair restoration patients worldwide only in 2006.

Perhaps, you also see yourself as a candidate for hair transplant. Then before taking action, get acquainted with the essence of this kind of operation that has become today the top cosmetic procedure particularly for men.

Hair transplantation is a surgery procedure performed on people who have significant hair loss or bald spots. Such kind of surgery is so tender and complicated that it lasts 2 or 3 hours during which about 250 grafts are transplanted. Just so you know, it must be noted that a man with moderate balding may need up to 1000 grafts for a perfect coverage of a bald area; so in this way, a consecutive series of such surgeries can last even from 3 to 4 months.

Some of you may think that hair transplantation means to transplant necessary hair from one person’s head to another. But indeed, in this procedure a donor and a recipient is the same person. In other words, during most common transplantation procedure in order to cover bald spots, hair is donated from the area behind the head. The hair in this area is usually not sensitive to balding. Thanks to it, the balding area can get rid of hair loss for a long time, sometimes even forever.

Hair removal step–by-step:

1. Step 1 – Preparation.
As mentioned above, hair transplantation is not so simple procedure as it might seem at first sight. So in order to avoid any risks, a patient should inform the surgeon about any medicament currently being used, and also about his/her allergic reactions to drugs or anesthetic agents. The physician also should consider a candidate’s blood-clotting disorders if they exist. The candidate even might need blood tests before a surgery.

2. Step 2 – The phase of anesthesia.
Nowadays different types of anesthesia may be applied. Actually, it depends on specific condition of a patient as well as the physician’s preference. In other words, one surgeon can be experienced in one method of anesthesia, when the other can conduct another type without any risks.

3. Step 3 – Hair Removal from donor area to bald area.
In this last phase, the back of the head scalp is most commonly acting as a donor area. This procedure includes the following 3 phases: determination of the safe donor area, preparation it for hair removal and removing hair to recipient area.
The donor area is being shaved, and then 4 mm plugs are transplanted from that area into 4 mm holes in the recipient area.

After the surgery has completed, patients can return to normal life just within a day. Of course, people may feel some headache or other discomfort around graft areas or even around the eyes. Such kind of pain can be reduced by means of aspirin.