“Hair Transplantation: Bald or Beauty…”
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Hair Transplant
Hair transplantation procedures by ‘Advance Clinic’ are a ‘Follicular Unit Extraction’ to revive your hair growth. It is effective way to restore hairs in head region with thinning or no hairs.
When hair transplantation procedures are a necessity?
- It’s best solution to treat male pattern baldness
- It’s also helpful for boosting thinning hair and makes your head look full
- It’s also best solution for hair loss due to genetic disorders
- Hair transplant is also effective for hair loss due to aging
- FUE procedure is also good for hair loss due to alopecia and bacterial infections
Note: Hair transplantation procedures is a surgical treatment; and the lower crown as well as side hairs serves as the donor for transplantation.
Types of Hair Transplantation Procedures:
- Follicular Unit Transplantation
- Follicular Unit Extraction
Insights into Follicular Unit Extraction Procedure:
Follicular Unit Extraction also known as ‘FUE’ and is one of the advanced procedure for restoring hairs. FUE is the most popular hair transplantation method; and assures completely natural looks with real growing hairs.
‘FUE’ is the most advanced technology in the world of ‘Hair Transplantation’; it’s very safe and has very few clinics around the world. Advance Clinic, is one of the pioneer of FUE method of transplant.
In ‘Follicular Unit Transplant’ a strip of scalp is removed for hair harvesting; later, it’s joint with a suture. Thus, FUT leaves behind a long and narrow scar mark.
But, ‘Follicular Unit Extraction’ method is not incisive; thus, there are no questions of sutures and scar marks. The hair grafts, are extracted via suction, and instantly positioned into the recipient site.
‘Follicular Unit Extraction’ Procedure Significant Points:
- The first step of ‘FUE’ procedure is to demark the site, to be used for donor site and recipient site.
- If it’s evaluated, that the donor site will not yield adequate grafts for the recipient area, then hair grafts from other parts of the body is considered. The other donor site in our body can be ‘beards, chest hairs, hairs from our limbs’.
- To form the hair grafts, hair follicles are extracted with great precision from the donor site. The procedure is technologically advanced as it extracts one by one hair for every graft.
- Every graft will have more than 1 hair strand and maximum 3 to 5 hair strands.
- The procedure is based on quick turnaround; thus, all hair follicles extracted from donor site, is immediately implanted or transplanted in the recipient site.
- Follicular Unit Extraction is minimally invasive, high success rate, zero scars, and minimal time to recover. Thus, in 48 hours you can go back to your normal lifestyle and routine. However, it’s always advised to go for experts!
Time taken for Hair Transplantation Procedures:
- It usually takes 4 hours minimum
- In many cases it may take up to 8 hours maximum
- The area of transplantation to be covered, decides the time required
- One may need second or third session depending on the need for hair thickness or to cover up further hair loss
Expected time to Recover & Hair Regrow post Hair Transplantation:
- Tenderness and pain may be there for few days, post-surgery
- You will be advised to take pain medications, by your surgeons
- You will need to wear bandage all around the donor site in your head for 24 to 48 hours
- You will need to take antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs for 5 to 7 days
- You can go back to work or business or continue with your outdoor activities after 2 to 5 days
- The transplanted hairs will fall after 2 to 3 weeks
- After 6 months 60% of hair will grow back in your scalp
- The rest will start to grow by 9 months
Risks of Hair Transplantation Procedures:
- No major risks are involved in this procedure
- Minor bleeding can be expected, as it’s a surgical procedure
- Infections occurs in rare cases; and most of the time due to ignoring doctor’s advise
- No scar marks will be visible or present post-surgery
- The hairs growing will be completely natural; and will have no appearance of being unnatural growth
