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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Hair Transplants - Avoid Becoming The Victim Of Botched Surgery

By Jay Bateman

Hair transplants are complicated procedures. They are expensive and the surgery will have an impact on your body just like other surgeries. Yet, hair transplants can restore part of your hair and make you look better. Before you decide to get one done, make sure you learn about them in advance.

In order to get a good overview of the steps involved in getting a hair transplant, I have compiled a list of three steps that you will likely have to go through when you decide to get a hair transplant done.

1. A strip of hair is excavated from the back of your head. Before this happens, the back of your head will be anesthesized. This strip of hair on the back of your head is resistant to the balding hormone called DHT. The hairs that are yielded from it, maintain their resistance, even when transplanted to another area of your scalp.

2. Since the hair transplant involves carefully placing tiny groups of hairs back into your scalp, the strip of hair is dissected into grafts. A medical team carefully cuts the strip of hair into tiny groups of one, two, three or four hair follicles. These grafts are later used in the actual transplant procedure.

3. After the strip of hair has been completely dissected, a collection of hair grafts is ready for transplant. Before the implantation of hair grafts begin, the doctor makes openings in the bald area of your scalp. These openings are effectively tiny wounds and they can be made using a medical instrument or a laser. The medical staff then proceeds to implant the hair grafts into your scalp.

It is possible that you will find a hair clinic that does the procedure differently. As technology progresses, methods change. But as of today, this is basically how hair transplants are done. The hair from the back of your head is cut up into grafts. The grafts are implanted into openings that are made in the balding areas of your scalp. Afterwards, these grafts continue to grow nicely.

What is important to keep in mind, is that your transplanted hair will not grow normally right from the start. The catch is that it will first fall out after about two weeks. This is called shock loss. The grafts shed their hairs because of the shock from the operation. This is normal, however. After a few weeks, all your tissue is healed completely and the hair will continue to grow at a normal rate.

Hair transplants can make you look and feel a lot better. But they are not a miracle cure for baldness. The rest of your hair will continue to fall out, so you might have to get more hair transplants in the future. There are many celebrity hair transplant pictures available on the web, so make sure to take a good look before you decide to get one yourself. Also keep in mind that hair transplants are getting better and cheaper all the time. So it can pay off to put them off for a while.

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