What do you know about hair transplantation? To many the facts known are a bit murky and intertwined with half truths and suppositions:
- There are those who know about the transplantation of hair plugs. Assuming that growing tresses are cut and moved from one area of the scalp to another, they are sorely disappointed when they realize that it is not actually a clump of hair which is moved but instead simply a number of hair follicles.
- Even if the idea of the hair restoration treatment with individual follicles is understood, there is the assumption that they are moved together in great number when in actuality the average number of follicles within a plug is more or less four.
- Similarly, the notion that transferred hair follicles will forever continue to grow hair is somewhat of a mistake. Instead, it is true that these follicles are those which are assumed and hoped to continue their growth cycles, but guarantees cannot be made.
What makes it sometimes hard to enter into the world of surgical hair restoration treatment options is the fact that the number of procedures available is stunningly high, yet the actual procedures being performed seem to be limited to but a few of them. Add to this a confusion about verbiage, and it is not surprising that a hair loss sufferer attempting to research the procedures available will soon become greatly discouraged.
Understanding the transplant hair restoration treatment also requires the acknowledgement that in the procedures’ infancy the end results were not quite as attractive as the patients may have hoped. Unsightly clumping and obvious rows of implantation are but a few of the complaints frequently enumerated when discussing early transplantation ideas. Of course, many innovations have taken place in the field of hair replacement surgery but by and large old fears are hard to quell and the resurgence of online photos of horribly botched procedures – usually not done at the hands of a bona fide hair transplantation surgeon but instead a cheap knock off – has many a potential candidate for this procedure hesitating.
While it is not possible to completely calm the fears and concerns of those who want to undergo the procedures of hair restoration or even laser hair loss treatments, surgeons go to great lengths to explain the entire process and highlight the facts that the average hair restoration treatment is not something that will be a one time session. Instead, it is a series of treatments which requires frequent returns and may actually take more than a year to yield the wished for results.
Those who simply cannot see their way clear to hair plugs or follicle grafting will be glad to know that there are other surgical hair restoration treatment options for them: there is the hair flap surgery which simply moves an area of scalp with healthy growing hair to a bald area. On the flipside, scalp reduction surgery will take out a bald spot and permit for the skin to sewn together where healthy hair growth is currently experienced.
