Management of Baldness - Hair Transplantation

Hair Transplantation

A medical hair transplant involves using small grafts of naturally-occurring units of one to four hairs, called follicular units, to move hair-producing follicles to balding areas of the hair restoration patient's scalp. These follicular units are surgically implanted in the scalp in very close proximity to one another and in large numbers. The grafts are obtained in one or both of the two primary methods of surgical extraction, Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) or Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE). In FUT, a strip of skin containing many follicular units is extracted from the patient and then dissected under a stereoscopic dissecting microscope. Once dissected into individual follicular unit grafts, the surgeon implants the grafts into small incisions, called recipient sites, in the recipient area of the patient's scalp. According to the new approach the roots of the hair are extracted from the "donor", and then literally cut into tiny strips, for transplantation. Bald patches on the scalp are isolated and given the donor strip, which is two to three millimeters thick only. When the transaction is completed, the patient should wear a head bandage for the next two days. This will allow the scalp to treat not weakened, and increase the chances of success.