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Hair Transplantation Resources: General Educational Information

General Educational Information

Hair transplantation - what is it?

Hair transplantation is the most common surgical hair replacement treatment. Hair transplantation is the surgical removal of hair grafts from donor areas on the side and the back of the head where balding men still have plenty of hair. These hair follicles are not inhibited by DHT (dihydrotestosterone) because they lack the genetic instructions to be inhibited DHT. So they remain healthy permanen...click for details

Best candidates for hair transplants and cost

The very best candidates for hair transplants are men in their 40s who has black, wavy blond or gray hair, who have balded slowly, and whose relatives experienced only limited hair loss. Men who are in their 20s are more difficult since the future pattern of hair loss is unknown. But there no age limits for transplants.

The most critical factor is a person’s expectations. Re-establ...click for details

Micrografts and mini-grafts

After anesthetizing the hair donation scalp area, a strip of scalp about ½" to 1" wide and 4-5" long removed. Since the scalp is very elastic, so the resultant gap is easily pulled together and sutured shut. The hair on the back of the head conceals the small thin suture line. Photos of the placement of hair transplants on a person's head are at www.cybersim.com/cotlar/default.htm.
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Microscopically magnified micrografting

A new advance in graft has been developed by Dr. B. L. Limmer and his research team who perfected a technique referred to as Microscopically Magnified Micrografting. Their procedure produces minute grafts of one to four hair follicular units which are transplanted into balding areas. Hair follicles and shafts naturally grow in from the head in follicular units consisting of one to five hairs. Some...click for details

Laser Hair Transplantation

Lasers are used create micro-incisions in the scalp for the insertion of hair. There is less bleeding from the recipient sites and the laser forms scalp holes of a very consistent size and depth. The main disadvantage of laser is the skin trauma produced by thermal effects at the recipient site.

Lasers were first used for hair transplantation in 1992. Early results were variable...click for details

Sessions and Megasessions

The transplantation surgery takes 3-4 hours in an outpatient facility and patients return home after surgery. Normal hair transplant sessions plant two to five hundred grafts with about four total sessions needed. Megasessions are long surgical hair transplant sessions by teams where a large number of micro-grafts are insert in one day. Megasessions allow achieving more micrograft transplants in l...click for details

Corrective Transplants

At times, because of earlier unsatisfactory transplantations, later transplant are used to improve the results. Micro- and mini-grafts are prepared from hair on the back and sides of the head and re-plants scalp areas as described above. The graft then establishes itself in the new scalp area and resumes normal growth by eight to 10 months after surgery....click for details

Local anesthetic used for surgery

Most techniques use small amounts of locally injected anesthetic and some physicians freeze the skin prior to injecting the pain-reducing agent.

After surgery, small scabs form over the graft sites, then after ten to fourteen days the small scabs fall off....click for details

Scalp Reductions

This procedure allows bald scalp area to be reduced and are probably the most common hair restoration procedure besides transplants. The scalp is usually somewhat loose and the balding area may be reduced. This can be very effective for persons with midline or posterior ("monk spot"). For transplantations, most people have a limited amount of hair for transplantation and reducing the bald area r...click for details

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