Friday, February 27, 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. After the strip of hair has been excavated, you will have to wait for a few hours while a team of medical staff carefully dissects the strip of hair into tiny units. These tiny units of hairs are called grafts. Grafts can either contain one, two, three or four hair follicles. These grafts will eventually be used to transplant to a bald area.

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.

These steps pretty much summarize what is involved in getting a hair transplant. The hair from the back of your head is DHT resistant and is therefore used in balding areas of your scalp. These hairs are obtained by dissecting a strip of hair that comes from the back of your head. The grafts that this procedure yields, are implanted into tiny openings on your scalp. When these openings heal up, the grafts are firmly in place. The hair from these grafts then continues to grow normally.

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.

All in all, hair transplants can be a great way to improve your looks. There are consequences involved, so do your research before getting one done. There are many pictures of celebrity hair transplants available on the web, so you can have a look at those before taking the plunge yourself. There is much technological process and hair transplants are getting better and cheaper all the time. So make comparisons between the hair transplant clinics that are available near you. - 15634

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