Hair Restoration Services

 

Hair restoration services are the process of restoration of natural hair for bald persons. Baldness causes depression for most people who want to have a natural look. Looking beautiful is the desire and fundamental right of every individual and they can achieve this by having natural scalp hair. But, unfortunately, baldness is a hindrance to this basic right of the person. The baldness is common to both sexes but males suffer more than that female in baldness. The reason for this dominance in males is that it is a sex-limited trait. Man can be bald if he receives only one baldness gene either from his father or mother. However, a woman will only be bald if she receives both genes from her parents. These chances are usually very rare and occasionally happen when cases come out. The person can become bald after the age of 40 years or more. The other way by which a patient becomes bald is through the side effects of treatments like chemotherapy in cancer patients. The doctor does not advise these patients to undergo hair restoration services.

Hair restoration services available in the modern era enable the man to gain their original look. These services include the Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT), Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), hybrid, laser or Neograft transplant. These services differ from one another but the ultimate consequences to get are the same. The physician first examines thoroughly, whether the patient is eligible to undergo the transplant procedure or not. He usually examines the donor site. If the donor site has enough hair, then the physician allows the patient to undergo the procedure. In men, the donor site can be the backside of the scalp or beard or chest hair. While in females, the donor site can only be the backside of the scalp. The physician then sets the patient on premedication surgery a few days before the treatment. The doctor advises the patient to stop using alcohol and smoking. As alcohol can cause a bleeding problem during surgery. Smoking is damaging to health and also can block the supply of blood to the newly planted follicles. Use of any blood thinner drug is avoided to save the risks of bleeding during surgery.

 

Many hair restoration options are successful. In the Follicular Unit Transplant, the physician cuts the strip of skin. The place from which they take the follicles is called the donor site. Then the surgeon seals this site with the stitches and then implants the donor side strip to the recipient site. There is one drawback of this technique as the incision is made so the linear scar is left behind even after surgery. In the Follicular Unit Extraction, no linear scar is left as no incision is made at the donor site. The surgeon extracts the follicles and then separates these follicles. Then using microneedles, the surgeon makes tiny or micro incisions at the recipient site. In these micro holes, the surgeon then implants the separated follicles. In the hybrid type of treatment, the physician then performs both previous treatments under a single session of surgery. The strip is cut and follicles are separated and then implanted at the recipient site using both techniques of FUT and FUE. As in the FUT, a linear scar is obvious at the donor site.

 

In the robotic type of hair restoration services, the robots perform the surgery. The ARTAS system of robots detects the donor area with the help of cameras that gives them a multidimensional view. The follicles are taken and using algorithms and installed software; the follicles are separated automatically by robots. After that, the robots then implant these automatically separated follicles in the recipient area. In the robotic type of hair transplant service, the surgeon uses an instrument called a wand to extract the follicles from the donor area using the vacuum creation technique. Then these are implanted using the same technique. The last technique has few side effects as it is the least invasive and minimal manual procedure. The surgery can be completed in a single session. However, sometimes the technique may take multiple sessions. In a single session of surgery, usually, 2,000 to 3,000 grafts are moved from donor to the recipient site. The cost of the treatment also varies depending on the surgeon, location, number of follicles to be moved or session of surgeries in which the treatment completes.