What is Hair Transplant Surgery?
There seems to be a lot of misinformation about what a good hair transplant surgical procedure is.
Some people think it means an entire new scalp of hair is surgically transplanted onto the head of the bald person and other people think it is sections of skin with hair growing on them that are sewn onto the bald spot.
This is no where near correct for current hair transplants procedures.
In the 1950's, when hair transplants were brand new, the results were less than great because micro-surgical techniques were not available.
At this time, the cosmetic surgeon was forced to work with patches of skin that still contained good hair growth and these patches were implanted directly into the bald spot.
This gave a result that looked like the hair plugs found on the head of a little girl's cheap doll head.
There were a few tufts of hair in the balding area that were sticking out every which way.
This is actually where the term hair plug came from.
It looked like someone had plugged groups of hair into the poor bald guy's head.
Using the new micro-surgical hair transplantation methods has completely taken care of this problem.
Now the cosmetic surgeon can separate and manipulate individual hair follicle and shaft units for the implantation method.
The follicular unit extraction method even makes it possible to remove individual hairs from other areas of the body for use on the head.
Once the surgeon has a group of hair units he or she can insert them into the scalp area that has suffered the hair loss.
The doctor is careful to implant them in a way so they lay down and match the direction of growth of the surrounding hair.
Within a few weeks the transplanted hair roots attach to the scalp blood supply and begin to manufacture hair shaft material once again.
These implanted hairs will then continue to grow for years to come just like the natural hair that was there before it fell out.
Some people think it means an entire new scalp of hair is surgically transplanted onto the head of the bald person and other people think it is sections of skin with hair growing on them that are sewn onto the bald spot.
This is no where near correct for current hair transplants procedures.
In the 1950's, when hair transplants were brand new, the results were less than great because micro-surgical techniques were not available.
At this time, the cosmetic surgeon was forced to work with patches of skin that still contained good hair growth and these patches were implanted directly into the bald spot.
This gave a result that looked like the hair plugs found on the head of a little girl's cheap doll head.
There were a few tufts of hair in the balding area that were sticking out every which way.
This is actually where the term hair plug came from.
It looked like someone had plugged groups of hair into the poor bald guy's head.
Using the new micro-surgical hair transplantation methods has completely taken care of this problem.
Now the cosmetic surgeon can separate and manipulate individual hair follicle and shaft units for the implantation method.
The follicular unit extraction method even makes it possible to remove individual hairs from other areas of the body for use on the head.
Once the surgeon has a group of hair units he or she can insert them into the scalp area that has suffered the hair loss.
The doctor is careful to implant them in a way so they lay down and match the direction of growth of the surrounding hair.
Within a few weeks the transplanted hair roots attach to the scalp blood supply and begin to manufacture hair shaft material once again.
These implanted hairs will then continue to grow for years to come just like the natural hair that was there before it fell out.
