Hair Transplant
Speaking about the problems of appearance, which interfere with feel
comfortable and confident, one can not forget about
hair loss.
The problem of
hair loss is a medical problem. Currently, there
are various methods of treatment and resolve this
hair loss
problem. One method is surgical. Surgery is laborious and complicated.
There are the following testimonies to the operating method:
- A hereditary type of hair loss in men.
- The scar alopecia. State, leading to the irretrievable loss
of hair (surgery, trauma, burns)
- Androgenetic alopecia in women. Develops against the
background of a significant increase in the level of male hormones in the
peripheral blood with a genetic predisposition
- Anatomical features of hair growth, such as deep
frontotemporal bald, high forehead, the hairline change after surgery.
Hair Transplantation (transplantation) hair can be made only
to those patients who have sufficient donor hair - for example, in the back or
side areas of the head.
Hair Transplanting own hair in women is mainly used as a
corrective surgery for reconstruction of the anterior hairline (high line of
temples, high forehead), as well as cicatricial alopecia of various origins.
Thanks to the development of modern technologies for transplants
hair
transplantation is now helping a growing number of men and women.
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Here are the main techniques and tips used in
hair
transplantation:
- Transplantation of follicular unit
- Seamless method of transplantation
- Transplantation of mini grafts
- Pulling the scalp
- Artificial synthetic hair
Consider each method individually.
Follicular unit transplantation
This technology was first developed by Dr. Bernstein and Rassmanom (Institute
of New Hair, Los Angeles, USA). The essence of this method is that the hairs
from an area where they normally grow (in the back of the head or the side) are
transplanted to places affected by
baldness. Use with only the
individual naturally growing hair group. To transfer the follicular group of the
side or back of the head intact, it is necessary that the donor tissue was
removed one piece. This technique, called
"allocation Stripes"
is the main component of
transplant follicular unit. The method
preserves the
follicular unit, follicular groups and prevents
hair follicle. All connections from the follicular tissue donor sites are
extracted under the control of stereo, in order to avoid any accidental damage.
Using stereo reduces the number of dead follicular groups of about 30-40%.
Follicular Unit Transplantation Has Two Advantages:
- All follicular groups reach a maximum in the growth and well maintained.
- This technique allows the operating surgeon to use small area on the
patient's body. Grafts consisting of individual
follicular unit are extremely small. They put in very small
holes in the place of transplant healing within a few days and leave no scars.
Before the surgery produced photographs pod operations area. Photographing is
mandatory for any plastic surgery. It is used for medical records and compares
results before and after operative treatment. In the hospital for one to two
hours before surgery hair shaved, my head is treated with an antiseptic. After
that, the lines marking the boundaries of sections and inserts a marker. After
that the patient has transferred to the operating room. Operations are carried
out under general anesthesia (general anesthesia). In the case of small pattern
baldness, hair transplantation is performed under local
anesthesia with intravenous potentiating, which is able to provide enough
protection in a shallow, superficial sleep.
During the operation an experienced team of surgeons,
transplant
follicular unit gives surprising results: the type of
transplanted hair will not differ from the naturally growing.
Due to the size of the
grafts and the holes where they are
transplanted, very small, the doctor has the opportunity for a transplant
procedure, a fairly large number of connections. Of course, for the full course
of
hair restoration will require not just one operation, but
their number is greatly reduced through the use of the techniques.
Why it is important to use in transplantation is follicular
group? Because hair grows in human groups (
follicular
unit), rather than individually. These groups are compact and
surrounded by the skin, where hair does not grow. Skin hair-free up to 50% of
the area, so when you remove them to
transplant hair follicles
are damaged. In the case of
multiple follicular units
(
minigrafty and
micrografts), an additional
skin graft to require larger incisions to accommodate, and this, in turn,
prolongs healing and can affect the final result of the transplant.
Thus, follicular technique makes effective use of stock hair in the donor
area, but also significantly improves the aesthetic result, recreates the
natural hairline, as well as maximizing the density of
transplanted
hair.
Seamless Method Of Transplantation
The first publications on the use of a seamless method of
hair
transplantation appeared four years ago, the United States. The
revolutionary spirit of the method was seamless retrieval and transplantation of
hair follicles. This method is called FUE (Follicular Unit
Extraction, extraction of
hair follicles without skin incision
in the donor area). The author of this method, an American scientist, Dr.
Rassman Bernstein, for his design was awarded the "Platinum follicle." The main
difference between this method lies in the fact that we should not remove the
strip of skin from the donor area.
Hair follicles are extracted
by special miniature instruments under constant supervision of high-precision
optical instruments. Also, this method allows, with a deficit of hair on the
donor area and the presence of large amounts of hair on other parts of the body
to
transplant hair follicles not only from the head, but also
from other areas. Hair follicles are long in a special solution and transplanted
to the patient almost immediately; resulting in less loss of transplanted hair
after surgery, most of them begins to rise immediately, but not 3-4 months as
after other methods of transplantation. This operation can be performed two or
three days in a row, replacing for each day up to 300-400 grafts.
In the
transplanted hair are all the natural characteristics
of color, texture, ability to increase life. They require no special care. A few
days after surgery, patients returned to normal rhythm of life, because after
the surgery leaves no scars and stitches in
hair
transplantation. May be present only point the wound - traces of which
has been observed, almost imperceptible. Reduction process and the healing
period after the
hair transplant procedure takes place with
less painful. Some discomfort is the case, but quickly eliminated by the usual
analgesics.
Transplantation Of Mini Grafts
The idea of mini
hair transplant grafts, based on a
hair transplant with the "donor" area on the top of the
occipital and forehead, grafts, consisting of two or three adjacent to each
other
follicular unit. A narrow strip of donor at the back
gives the number
micro transplantation that allows you to fill
a large area of
baldness hair. Under local anesthesia, the
donor of the head is cut a flap of skin with hair, which dissects the
mini-grafts - "boxes", bearing 20-30 hairs.
Mini-grafts are cut again, even at the
micro-grafts
- skin particles to the number of bulbs from one to three. The whole
process of cutting grafts should be performed under a microscope. It's pretty
hard work required from the medical staff of special skills and abilities. In
addition to accuracy and precision cutting is also very important and fast.
Since the smaller the amount of time the donor material is outside the body, the
higher the degree of engraftment and survival of grafts, but depends on a good
result. Each graft is attached to or made by laser hole at an angle
corresponding to the
natural hair growth. On average, a single
operation carried 1200 - 1600
grafts.
Transplanted
hair remains for life. However, you should know the following important
point, which is not always the transplanted follicles take root, and then
decorate
baldness may not hair, and terrible scars.
Unfortunately, this method can not recover the entire scalp, the maximum that
can be done - this is a rare mark hair scalp. The mini micro grafting and no one
cares about the natural growth of follicular groups and tries to keep intact
follicles. It is not considered particularly important. Decisive factors for the
use of this technique - its speed and economy. Doctors usually use knives,
equipped with multiple blades to separate the donor strip that is cut into the
grafts, using only their eyes without any - or magnifying
devices. Because of this, and the result - fat grafts with a lot of unnecessary
tissue around the hole and the maximum of the recipient.
Tightening Of The Scalp
This is a fairly old technique of
hair transplantation. Is
as follows: a large surface of the head with no hair, cut, and sewn edges. The
surgeon separates by trimming with a scalpel, almost the entire scalp from the
inside - before the start of the ears and neck - it tightens and stitches the
wound edges. This method yields terrible results.
Artificial Synthetic Hair
Some companies manufacture artificial,
synthetic hair that
is (microfiber).
Synthetic hair transplant man practiced for
over thirty years. This method of
hair transplantation still
has not been very successful.
Disadvantages of this method in a
large number of side effects. They do not grow; causing painful itching in
patients lead to indurations processes crude scarring, pus and other
complications, and eventually fall out. For these reasons, the United States use
synthetic hair for
transplantation is
prohibited by law.
Synthetic hair is made of modern polymer fiber and implanted
into people with a shortage of donor
hair for transplantation.
Advertising firms this procedure, use the term "biocompatible hair," that is not
entirely true. Because
synthetic hair is made up of entirely of
synthetic materials and are foreign bodies to the human body. Company
manufacturers claim that the loss of
synthetic hair is
approximately 10% per year. But in practice it turns out that
hair
loss comes to 30% or more per year, and therefore artificial
"biocompatible" hair will be lost within two to three years. On the clinical
trials of
synthetic hair is not reported. Thus, after a review
of basic techniques of hair transplantation, we can conclude that the most
advanced to date is a seamless
method of transplantation (FUE),
especially when it is necessary to transplant a small volume of 200-500
grafts. For large volume, we recommend using
follicular
transplantation connections.
The most important thing in deciding to hold hair
baldness treatment
hair transplant method is to acquaint you with the clinic and doctor.
Remember that you are taking a serious decision, and how, after all operations
are possible complications (abscess, pustular infection seroma formation,
hematoma, dehiscence, necrosis of the flap edge,
loss of hair
on the seam line). A positive outcome of
surgical hair
restoration depends entirely on the experience of medical professionals
and used in clinical technique.
Author
Norma Weinberg, Ph.D.
Resources
Dr. Rassman Bernstein (American scientist)
Dr. Bill Reed (California, USA)
Published: 15.10.2011