Hair transplantation
surgery takes many hours to complete. However, it is performed
within the doctor’s clinic and he or she is assisted by a
team of medical technicians and nurses who each play a highly specialised
role in the procedure. You should not feel any pain throughout
the procedure, and at first you will be given a mild sedative, followed
by injections in your scalp that will numb the donor and recipient
areas. These injections are very similar to the injections
given to a patient by a dentist. Throughout the procedure
you will either be in a reclining chair or lying down. It
may even be possible to listen to music or chat with the medical
team during the lengthy transplant session. Once you have been anesthetized
the procedure will begin.
The doctor will select a strip of donor hair, which is then cut
short. Then using a scalpel the doctor will remove the strip
of scalp from the donor area, either the back or side of the head,
and this is then place in a container filled with a chilled saline
solution or a special fluid known as Ringer’ lactate.
The donor area is then stitched closed, this prevents any infection
following surgery and any scarring will be slight and will be covered
by the surrounding hair. The wound should heal within a week
or two and the stitches will then be removed, unless dissolvable
stitches were used.
The next step concerns the medical technicians who will dissect
the strip of donor hair under a microscope and trim off any extra
fatty tissue if evident. This can be a long and exacting process,
resulting in parts of the donor strip being placed in a fridge while
other parts of the strip are being dissected and then implanted
in your recipient sites. It is during this dissection that
the donor scalp is cut into follicular units of one to four hairs
each. These are the naturally occurring hair clusters, and
each unit whether one-hair, two-hair, three-hair, or four-hair units
will include the hair strand, the hair follicle and some of the
surrounding tissue and skin. It is vital that great care is
taken not to damage the follicles.
The doctor will draw on your scalp an outline of the area receiving
the transplants. Before the procedure began you will have
chosen the area of your scalp to receive the transplants.
Each individual site within the overall area is well prepared to
receive the transplant graft, and a very small incision is created
for each with a small, specialised scalpel. The follicular
unit hair grafts are then placed into the recipient sites in the
correct direction of the natural hair growth.
During the transplant procedure you must remember that the transplanted
hairs were cut very short, these hairs were transplanted along with
their follicles and its now time for them to do their work in their
new home. Follicles are like hair factories, they make hair
that sprouts from your scalp and grows longer and longer according
to your body‘s natural hair growth cycles. These are
also the hairs that fall out, and are replaced by new ones. However,
in people who suffer with hair loss, the follicles are unable to
produce new hairs pf proper size and length, and ultimately fail
to produce any new hairs at all. The hair transplant has provided
healthy new follicles which will create new terminal hair strands.
First, however, the trimmed hairs in your new follicles will fall
out, this is known as shock fallout, and may also affect a
y original non transplanted hairs within the recipient areas.
Try not to panic at this point, as this is just part of the follicle’s
natural cycle, and in your original hair as well as your newly transplanted
hair will return in a normal growth cycle. Hair re-growth
normally takes place after about 3-4 months following surgery.
Good creative hairstyling will help to enhance all hair transplants
and will most likely benefit women even more so than men because
of the many hair lengths and styling options available to, and popular
with women.
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