Hair transplants or hair transplant surgery is an operation that takes skin that still has viable hair follicles from one section of a persons body and transplants it to the area that needs the hair. The doctor takes the hair from the donor site and moves it to the recipient site, basically. Most transplants are done on men to treat male pattern baldness although this surgery can also help people that need hair on their eyebrows, eyelashes, beard and also to put hair back where it used to be due to scarring.
Most typical procedures will take skin with at least four hair follicles. This is because doctors believe that this type of grouping will appear more natural in the recipient site. There is a type of transplant procedure called Follicular Unit transplantation which is a more advanced type of hair transplant surgery. As time progresses surgical procedures become more advanced and new technology is discovered in all areas of medicine. The area of hair loss research is the same. Doctors and researchers are always looking for safer and better ways to transplant hair so that hair growth looks natural and stays healthy. Most of the time the transplant will take but there are some people for which this type of surgery is not successful, just like any other surgery.
After you make the decision to have this type of surgery and you have picked the surgeon that you are going to use, he or she will analyze your individual situation. You will tell your doctor your concerns and he will examine the recipient area and tell you what he thinks is the best way to proceed and what your expectation can be. There’s the possibility that you might only have to have a single session or you could have multiple sessions. It is important that you discuss all of this with your surgeon so that you know exactly what you can expect and you can have realistic expectations of exactly what a hair transplant can do for you.
