Choosing the Right Expert for Hair Transplant

When you are young, your scalp shows luxuriant hair growth, but as you age, they start falling and the hairline starts receding especially from the front. Just as nowadays, treatment for curing wrinkles and fine lines are available, similarly the impact of aging on hair can also be reduced or controlled and if possible restored by using various methods. One of the most guaranteed and effective methods of getting back the luxuriant hair growth on your scalp is hair transplant. With good hair transplantation from an expert, you are assured of getting a fuller head of hair.

Understanding the Process of Hair Transplant

Transplantation of hair is a surgical process that has been prevalent since the late fifties but it has become more advanced, less invasive and less painful since the last few years. The new technology of transplantation of hair makes use of specific methods to make the effect long lasting and almost real. Expert doctors conduct the treatment under local anesthesia.

 For transplanting hair, the surgeon cleans the scalp first and then injects the local anesthesia to make the scalp area numb. Now, a strip tissue of 3 to 4 inches is removed from the scalp, the scalp is sewed, and hidden immediately by the hair that is around it. This removed scalp tissue is then divided and dissected using microscope into 500 to 2000 follicular units or grafts with each unit containing few hair strands each. The use of graft depends upon the color, quality and type of the hair.

The area where the hair is to be transplanted is cleaned and numbed and slits or holes are created using needle or scalpel. Then, each graft is placed in the hole delicately. The process takes almost four to eight hours depending upon the extent of transplant. Doctors may advise additional session for transplantation if you happen to need thicker hair. 

 Choosing the Right Expert

The treatment of transplantation of hair is an outpatient treatment and do not need long time stay in the hospital. However, for guaranteed results you need to approach renowned hair transplant surgeon who has a good experience in the field of transplantation.

Since the process is more expensive than any other method of hair restoration including hair weaving and using extensions, it is important that you select the right doctor and hair expert who know exactly which type of transplantation, (FUT or FUE) is suitable for you and how much restoration is possible.

When it comes to doing hair extensions, you can approach even your regular spa and salon hair styler to perform it. However, transplantation of hair needs special expertise in the field of hair restoration and surgery and hence only a certified surgeon and hair expert should be approached for getting the treatment.