Wednesday, March 17, 2010

What Is The Hair Transplantation







As the name implies, hair transplantation uses the patient’s own hair to fill in thinning areas on the scalp or even in the eyebrows.It is usually done for pattern thinning or baldness(the most common type of hair loss in both men and women) but the procedure is also used to refill areas of hair loss due to trauma in for example,the eyebrow or in scarring conditions of the scalp where hair has been lost permanently.Many people still associate hair transplantation with those unsightly,Barbie doll style plugs,however,the treatment has been revolutionized in the past decade.Now individual hairs or a few hairs are transplanted into tiny slits in the scalp so that even I can’t always tell a transplant job from the real thing.This remains the best treatment for pronounced hair loss in women.A hair transplant is typically an in office procedure that is done under local anesthesia but your doctor might offer you a light sedative. Although there are many ways of carrying out this surgery, here is a classic scenario: Your doctor starts by removing a strip of scalp from an area of the head where the hair is plentiful generally from the back. Individual hairs and groups of two or three hairs are carefully extracted before transplanting the grafts into very small slits that have been cut in the thinning areas of your scalp. The head is gently cleaned and bandaged after the procedure. Although your new hair usually sheds shortly afterward, it will grow back in a few weeks, assuming that all your grafts take properly. As many as several hundred to a few thousand grafts can be transplanted during a single session. In most instances, several sessions are required to achieve a nice natural result.

Hair transplant surgery is a fairly easy,straight forward operation.It is the treatment of choice for pattern baldness in men and women. Since Propecia should not be used by women and Rogaine produces less than impressive results, hair transplantation is decidedly a woman’s best hope for restoring her full, natural mane. The best news is that once the series of procedures is over, your hair will continue to grow forever because the transplanted hair has been taken from a part of your scalp that never goes bald.The operation is expensive, tedious and time consuming,it usually requires several sessions over a year or two to attain the desired results. Because it involves making numerous and large surgical incisions and hundreds of small slits, the scalp can be tender, swollen and bruised for several days afterward. Also keep in mind that if your hair is too thin around the back of the head, where doctors usually harvest the hair from, the procedure might not work for you.Hair transplantation is best for men and women who are losing their hair because of their age, genetic makeup or certain medical disorders. It’s especially beneficial for women, who often complain that a receding hairline or diffusely thinning hair gives them a masculine appearance. Because hair transplantation has advanced so much in the past several years, we see many patients who want us to replace their unsightly plugs with more natural looking micrografts. Finally, the procedure offers an excellent way of filling in eyebrows that have been over tweezed or have begun to thin.

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