This is the basics of how modern hair transplants work, along with a little review of the history of hair restoration to understand how far we have come today. Many patients, when they come to see me, are confused about how hair transplant works and what they need to do to maintain the results over time.
Due to public bathing rituals and the disease condition of young Asian women suffering from pubic hair loss, this type of transplant has proven to be an important step in knowing that hair transplant from one area of the body to another will thrive and survive. He called this phenomenon “donor dominance,” meaning that hairs that migrated from the back of the head to areas of genetic susceptibility to hair loss do not lose over time and retain the characteristics of the donor’s hair. This was the brilliant breakthrough we needed to know that the results would survive despite being implanted in areas prone to hair loss.
Then why isn’t the back of the head vulnerable to hair loss? Well, only God knows. But it’s true. Think of the baldest man you know (the one who hasn’t shaved the back of his head). He still has his hair there. Even the baldest man has horseshoe-shaped hair on the back of his head. When it comes to hair transplant, the only trick is to know which areas are “safe” for a transplant, i.e. areas that won’t be lost over time as you age. This is one of the main reasons transplanting an individual at the age of 20 can be problematic. We don’t know how much the hair on the back of the head might fall out over time. Also, you may run out of donor’s hair to transplant the front of your head, and as you age more hair (the one that is not transplanted) falls out, allowing you to maintain a natural result.
This judgment is one of the main attributes that separates an experienced hair transplant surgeon from a novice. Knowing who to operate on—those that are safe and those that aren’t—is a fundamental prerequisite to performing a safe hair transplant operation. Subject to the law of supply and demand, individuals with extraordinary donor hair densities—many follicles per square centimeter of donor area—often can naturally and impressively cover massive baldness. The wise use of grafts by the surgeon, with good angles and good pattern distribution, helps to ensure that the results are natural and dense given the amount of hair loss in a particular person and the available donor hair supply.
Another question that is often asked is, “Will the transplanted hair be the same as the non-transplanted hair? Will it be cut the same as the other hair?” The answer is a resolute yes. Hair transplant surgery is simply described as moving hair from one side of the head to the other, like taking a flower from one pot and moving it to another. You will grow in the new environment just like you did in the previous one. Even if the number of transplanted hairs does not exactly match the number of hairs lost, with good surgeon skill, 5,000 transplanted hairs (usually in large sessions) can be made to look like 50,000 hairs lost (start of hair loss). from bald). are revealed.)
