Hair transplantation involves transplanting healthy hair follicles from the back of the head to bald or thinning areas. It is suitable for men and women who have sufficient donor hair. The document discusses different hair transplantation techniques and factors to consider like hair thickness, diseases that cause hair loss, and the recovery process. It provides before and after photos and discusses important considerations before and after the procedure.
2. What is Hair Transplantation?
With its other name, hair transportation, is a process of transporting the
healthy and strong hair roots from the donor area, which is usually in the
back of the head, to the area which is thinned down or completely opened.
3. Who can get hair implant?
Candidates suitable for hair implant
surgery are people who have enough hair
beside or behind their heads. Those
people can use both FUT and FUE
techniques. Other suitable candidates for
hair transplantation operations are
people who have enough amount of
healthy hair on their chests, legs, etc. FUE
technique is being used for those people.
Many males who weren’t suitable for hair
implant operations in the past are now
suitable candidates as the hair implant
surgery has been developed by modern
techniques. Unnatural appearances
formed by large grafts are replaced by
natural appearances formed by small
grafts and with the newly developed
tools, natural hair appearance can be
achieved for everybody.
FUT TECHNIQUE
FUE TECHNIQUE
4. Hair Transplantation and Hair Thickness
Hair thickness is another matter, which should
be paid attention to, in hair transplantation.
For instance; hair thickness totally depends on
the surgeon and medical team who attends to
hair transplantation and having a thick hair is
not the important matter. This is a situation
which is based on the person and the aesthetic
appearance.
Main factors on determining the density of
hair implant are as follow;
The density should be arranged due to
natural appearance of hair line or order,
The hair density should be arranged
according to aesthetics appearance of the
person,
The hair should be suitable with the current
hair design,
The system should be suitable with the
pictures of the past.
5. Hair Diseases
Hair loss can be directly caused by
microbe diseases from the hair but
also from avitaminoses, hunger,
diabetics, acute, hormonal disorder
and other idiosyncratic ailments. The
main hair diseases are baldness,
alopecia, dandruff and skin-head.
6. Hair Loss
Male type hair loss can be seen on both sides
of forehead or top of the head, but it can also
affect all of the head. Female hair loss mostly
seen as dilution of the hair.
Before going through a treatment, the type of
the hair loss should be examined by an expert
doctor. Many diseases, hormonal and
metabolic disorders and dietary effects can
trigger hair loss.
Mainly Hair Loss due to:-
Usual Hair Loss
Hair Loss due to Stress
Baldness
7. Hair Photo Therapy
Hair photo therapy, Electro Tricho Genesis
(ETG) is a term used for recovery of lost hair
and prevention of hair loss with the aid of
electro stimulation. Pulsed electrostatic area;
AB, EFTA is certified medically all around the
world and used in general baldness treatment
and male and female androgenetic alopecia.
The biggest advantage of the treatment is that
it’s pain free. And this method has
inconveniences of course. Some of them are; it
should not be used in pregnancy. Patients with
cardiac pacemakers should not use this
method. People with metal dentures in their
heads should not use this method.
The application of the treatment: Treatment is
applied one session a week. Session time is 12
minutes. In 6 or 12 weeks the patient give
positive response to the treatment.
8. Hair Mesotherapy
The treatment that applied directly to the
middle layer of the skin is called mesotherapy.
Application of mesotherapy could be
successfully completed in the hair, beard and
moustache areas.
Benefits of Mesotherapy: It has the
opportunity to be applied areal, it has low
costs and it has scarcely any side effects. Its
sessions have longer time periods between
them compared to the other applications and
it has the oppurtunity to be applied under or
surface of the skin.
10. When should the treatment take place?
If you think that you are losing your hair, you
can evaluate your situation from the
classification scale shown at the side.
If you’re losing 100-200 strands every day for a
long time, you have the signs of male type hair
loss. If you think you are losing that amount of
hair, do not panic and consult to a
dermatologist immediately.
If the hair loss has not reached to Level 6, you
still have a chance to do something. If your hair
loss well passed 6th level, surgical operations
could be a solution for you. A dermatologist
will help you with the determinating your hair
type and choosing the most ideal treatment for
you.
11. Things should be paid attention before
hair transplantation
• Do not use ASPIRIN or other anti-inflammatory drugs (ibuprofen, ecopirin,
alka seltzer etc.) two weeks before the operation. Do not use ALCOHOL
three days before the operation. Inform your doctor about drugs that you
are using for chronic (diabetes, heart, blood pressure, tuberculosis, etc.) or
acute diseases. Do not use tricycle antidepressants, clotting preventing
drugs (heparin Coumadin etc.) beta blockers and moa inhibitors (aurorix
etc.) two weeks before the operation. Inform your doctor if you used one
of those drugs in the given time period. Do not apply any local medicine
around your scalp or hair before the operation. Wash your hair before
you’re coming in for the operation and do not use any hair gel or spray
after washing it. Have a breakfast certainly before coming in for the
operation. If your operation is afternoon, you should have a light lunch.
You must certainly bring a hat with you which can be loosen and fastened
from its back part, to wear after the operation. Do not smoke for 24 hours
after the operation if possible. If you can't manage, try to reduce number
of smokes. Don't forget that smoking will extend the healing period and
increase the risk of infection and scar.
12. Things should be paid attention after Hair
Transplantation
How you feel after the operation
depends on the type and range of the
approach taken. Any forms of pain and
discomfort can be taken under control
by painkillers.
If bandage is applied, it will usually
removed the day after. You will start
washing your hair 2-3 days after the
operation and you will continue to
wash as instructed until your stitches
are removed. Stitches are usually
removed after 15th day of the
operation.
13. Recovery Time
A diminutive incrustation is being formed on
the transplantation area after the operation,
and this will fall in one week period (Advanced
FUE techniques don’t cause incrustation as
dense as FUT technique). After the operation
and diminutive incrustation has fallen of, living
hair roots will make a small growth and there
will be no scar or rash even in early periods,
since thick canal opener generated cuts in FUT
technique are not used. This way, even in the
early periods, even they show signs of short
growth, the view formed by the current roots
makes the patient confident and happy. But
the real and permanent growth only begins
after the 4th month. The growth in the early
periods as thin strands turns into the desired
view by thickening of the hair diameters in the
5th-6th month.
14. Graft Calculation
During the calculation consider these facts:
Strand Thickness: Is your strand thin or thick?
For thinner hair a higher density is required.
Hair Color: Yellow and other light colored hairs
and the color difference between hair and skin
is not much a less density is required.
Type of your Hair: Wavy and curly hairs covers
the skin more than straight hair. Because of
this less density is required.
Transplantation areas: Forehead line and
forehead area require more density in hair
transplantation as a rule.
Average hair density for hair not lost is 60-100
follicles per centimeter squares. A good hair
density is could be determined as 30-50
follicles per centimeter squares according to
the facts above.