Sunday, 24 August 2014

What Is Hair Transplantation ?

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Hair transplantation is a procedure in which hair is removed from permanent hair-bearing regions in the rim hair of balding individuals (the donor area) and transferred to bald or balding areas of the scalp (the recipient area). After initially falling out, the transplanted hair regrows and will continue to grow in the new area for as long as it would have grown in the area from which it was taken. It also has the same color and other characteristics as the hair in the donor area from which it was taken.

Hair transplanting is most commonly performed for Male Pattern Baldness and Female Pattern Hair Loss. A relatively new technique referred to as Follicular Unit Extraction skips the removal of a strip from the donor area. A small, round punch similar to a small cookie cutter is used to excise each individual FU directly from the donor area. It has the advantage of avoiding the production of a linear scar in the donor area but is more time-consuming, expensive and more likely to result in injury of the FUs. It may also prove to be an effective way of removing hair from the body and transferring it to the scalp.

Although most hair transplanting today is carried out using only individual FUs, there are some advantages in using grafts containing more than one FU in some individuals. Transplanting with grafts that are larger than a FU requires multiple sessions in the same area to produce adequate naturalness; however, one can achieve greater hair density than is possible with FUT.






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