Hair Transplant

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Hair Transplant

What are the causes and treatment for Hair Loss?

Hair loss can result from heredity, stress, fungal or bacterial infection, affected liver or thyroid, crash dieting, dandruff, iron, calcium and vitamin deficiencies, systemic disease or side effect of prolonged medicines. These causes can be investigated and treated with suitable medicines. Hair loss that does not respond to treatment and has progressed beyond grade three requires replacement with new growing hair, which is done by hair transplant.

What is Hair weaving, Hair bonding, Hair fusion etc?Hair weaving is tying a wig on the head with silk thread knots. Hair bonding is holding the wig with clips and hair fusion is sticking a light weight nylon wig with a double sided sticking tape. These are all temporary methods. Prolonged use causes bad hygiene, pull out of the anchoring hair and excoriation of skin. These methods are not done by doctors.

What is Hair transplant?

Hair transplant is a one day procedure which gives permanent replacement of lost hair with new hair roots that grow. These can be cut, shampooed and treated like your own hair. Repeated visits to the clinic are not required.

How hair transplant corrects baldness?

Baldness is a progressive disorder. Hair on the front and top of the head is lost because it is hormone dependent. Hair on the sides and lower back does not have hormone receptors. This hair is retained till the age of 60 – 70yrs. Plastic surgeons transfer the persons own hair roots from the long lasting area to the bald area. Latest Follicular micro grafting ( FUT ), FOX technique and Body Hair Transplant

What are punches, single hair grafts and the latest FUT?

Use of punches and single hair grafts are now outdated. Hair grows in natural units of 1,2 or 3 hairs. These natural units are maintained in the latest follicular micrografting technique. This gives a robust, hair growth. If these units are separated and implanted as single hair they give poor growth. Follicular unit grafts avoid, clumpy appearance of punches and the thin look of single hair.

Do you have to be completely bald for a hair transplant?

Follicular micro grafts can be used in – between thinning hair in men and women for adding density. Our team covers most areas in single sitting. 1000 – 2000 grafts can be done at one time, going to a maximum of 3000.

Can you make less number of grafts look fuller?

Special interdigitated placing is used to make lesser number of grafts look fuller.

What happens to the area from where the grafts are taken?

The area from where the grafts are taken is closed so that no bald patch is seen.

How are the grafts placed and when do they grow?

The micro grafts are paced in the bald area with injection needle pricks to make sure there is minimal scarring. The grafts start growing with the next hair cycle at 3 – 4 months and keep on growing thereafter.

How long does the operation take? Do we have to remain admitted?

The surgery is done under local anesthesia. It takes 6 – 8 hours. Patient is discharged on the same evening and advised rest for 3 – 6 days. Follow up for suture removal is required at 12 – days. Suture-less FOX technique and transplant of body hair is available for suitable patients.

What can be done for old pluggy grafts or flaps?

Correction of old pluggy looking grafts or low straight line hair flaps can be done by recycling the punches and redraping the flaps.

What other hair loss can be replaced with FUT?

Restoration of eyebrows, eyelashes, burn areas, scars, beard, moustache, cleft lip Hanson’s patients, pseudopelade, and Folliculitis Decalvans is best done with follicular micro grafting.