People go for hair transplants for two reasons- untimely hair fall or covering baldness to look good regardless of age. More and more people are now adopting this technique to grow natural hair but they are inquisitive about the procedure and how it is done. Is it a complex surgery? How exactly is it done? Do they implant natural hair or artificial hair?
Well, hair transplant is a surgery by which hair follicles are extracted from an area of the body ( called the donor area) which has a healthy growth of hair and then transplanted to the hairless area( recipient area). This process is called FUT Surgery or follicular hair transplantation. It is done in two ways, either by harvesting a strip of skin with growing hair for follicular unit extraction ( FUE).
Let us look at the step by step process of hair transplant surgery which answers all your questions.
Precautions
The patient is advised to refrain from taking alcohol and smoking at least 2 to 3 days before the procedure. Heavy weight lifting is also to be avoided just before the operation. Certain blood-thinning medicines like Aspirin have to be stopped before the surgery.
Preparation
The hair in the donor area at trimmed. Local anesthesia is administered in both the donor and the recipient areas. Hair trimming is not required in the recipient area.
Harvesting
Healthy tissue with healthy hair is removed surgically from the donor area. Then this area is sutured by the surgeons.
Preparation of follicles
the tissue thus obtained from the donor area is trimmed into tiny little follicular units and carefully examined and divided accordingly to prepare the grafts.
Preparing the donor area
Next to the recipient area is prepared for the implantation. Incisions are made in this area under local anesthesia. These institutions are very very tiny and make an irregular pattern in the bald area.
Implantation
The next step is to graft the follicular units in the tiny in seasons already made. These follicular units are grafted according to the pre-prescribed design and density. The angle of alignment of the follicles is also matched with the angle of growth in the recipient area.
End of procedure
The patient can go home accompanied by relatives. Marks made by the institutions will heal naturally and the redness for hair clotting will also go in a week or 10 days.
Post- Operation
The donor area from where the hair strips taken is covered by combing the surrounding hair on it to hide it from view.
The transplanted hair falls off after 4 to 5 weeks. Thereafter, there is fresh sprouting and hair grows naturally for the rest of your life.
Hair transplant Surgery is a sutureless, painless and noninvasive surgery. If there is pain after the local anesthesia wears off, drugs are prescribed to the patient for the same. Antibiotics are also given for a week. The patient can use mild shampoo with gentle water pressure after 3-4 days.
The future hair growth will depend on the number of grafts that the patient has chosen to get implanted. the cost of the hair transplant Surgery also depends on the number of hair follicles transplanted. If one gets more grafts, the cost also goes up proportionately.
If the reasons for balance are chemotherapy or another type of injury, the doctors will accordingly advise you whether the hair transplant will work for you or not.
