2. According to Charles Darwin, we humans were, once upon
a time, dressed in hairy coats like apes. But as the body
glove soon lost its importance, hair ceased to spring up in
areas where it is unwanted but staying in areas where it is
most needed, particularly in the scalp. This is the good
news.
The bad news is that scalp hair is prone to recession. As we
age, the hair on the scalp gradually stops growing, with total
or diffuse baldness as an end result.
Hair loss in the scalp is a major issue for many modern men
and women. Where the importance of beauty is
conflagrated, society simultaneously puts so much pressure
on people to maintain a full head of hair.
This explains why hair loss is a totally depressing event.
Hair loss often leaves a person so devastated that he would
readily resort to corrective hair transplant procedures.
The popularity of hair transplantation seemed to have
skyrocketed when high-profile names including Wayne
Rooney, Jason Alexander, and Jason Donovan admitted to
have gone under the knife.
3. Surgical hair restoration remains the only available option for people with
severe baldness. Basically, it involves the transplantation of non-balding
hair follicles to replace balding follicles. There are two widely practiced
techniques: strip harvesting and follicular unit extraction.
The former involves the extraction of a donor strip that contains hair-
bearing follicles while the latter is more intricate as it involves extraction of
follicles by their natural groups of one to four. Unlike the former, the FUE is
a hair transplant procedure that leaves less visible scars (no linear scars).
4. High-quality hair restoration promises good long-lasting effects. Although cheap
procedures would indeed most likely cause problems not only during the
procedure itself but also in the long run, high-quality hair restoration techniques
can still falter.
Rugby player Kryan Bracken finds himself very disappointed after seeing his
transplanted hair and even naturally existing hair fall out. Bracken is not the only
one to have suffered this. Many patients have already reported a failed hair
transplant procedure without regard to the cost.
This is to say that not all high-quality hair restoration ensures long-lasting effects.
In some cases, transplanted hair follicles would produce thinner, shorter hair.
Patients should be open to this possibility.