Who benefits from hair restoration surgery?
Anyone who has experienced permanent hair loss may be a candidate for hair restoration surgery, including:

Men with male pattern baldness,
Some women with thinning hair - female pattern thining,
People with areas of scarring from injuries or hair loss after face lift procedures,
People who want to thicken or restore eyebrows, eyelashes, and beards.

What happens during a hair transplant surgery?

Hair transplant procedures generally take from 3-6 hours and are performed using local or twilight anesthesia on an out-patient basis. Patients are often awake but feel relaxed as they are given a mild sedative. There is usually little or no pain during the surgical procedure.Nowaday no bandage is necessary on the scalp at the end of the procedure but a small head band will secure the donor to prevent swelling. The donor area, where the permanent grafts are taken, is closed with either sutures or surgical staples that are removed in 7-12 days. Dissolvable sutures may be used in order to eliminate the need for you to return for suture removal.

What happens after hair transplant surgery?

          Hair transplantation is a very safe, relatively minor surgical procedure. Patients are provided with a mild analgesic to relieve any discomfort felt the night following the procedure. Patients may be asked to use moist compresses or sprays and to sleep in a semi-upright position for 2-3 days following the procedure to minimize swelling and bruising.At present some doctors allow the patient to sleep flat. Small crusts may form on each graft that can be combed over the recipient area. These crusts will flake-off by 10-14 days after the surgery. The transplanted hair seen above the scalp will initially be shed, however the roots will remain dormant for 6-12 weeks, at which time the new hairs will all begin to grow. Numbness that may occur in the donor or recipient area usually disappears in 2-8 months following surgery.

          Complications are rare. Minor infections can occur around a newly transplanted hair follicle, similar to an infected ingrown hair or pimple, and responds easily to antibiotics. Minor scars that occur in the donor scalp as a result of the removal of donor skin are narrow and can be easily hidden by the surrounding hair. The graft sites in the recipient frontal area heal with almost no visible scarring and are covered by the transplanted hair. Patients may experience mild swelling to the forehead area for a few days following surgery and on rare occasions may actually experience a black eye if the frontal scalp is transplanted.

Medical Treatments

What are the new medical treatments available?
For your information please contact the clinic in detail.

When should I start treatment?

          Patients may have hair restoration surgery at any age. It is often better to start when you are not completely bald so that you can use existion hair to help camouflage the procedures. However, because hair loss tends to be both gradual and progressive, it is often unwise to start surgical treatment in a patient who is very young. Medical treatments such as Finasteride and Minoxidil may be offered to men with mild to moderate hair loss to help preserve thinning hair in the crown.
Hair transplants can be used to fill-in the front hairline and thicken the front half of the scalp, and medical treatments can be used to maintain hair behind the transplants and to possibly enhance the long-term results of hair restoration surgery. Your hair restoration surgeon will work with you to design an individualized plan to fulfill your speciffic needs.

Surgical Options.
Scalp Reduction and Flaps.

Scalp Reduction and Flaps are used in some patients to make large areas of balding smaller. Flaps are large pieces of hair covered scalp that are rotated to replace a section of bald scalp. Scalp reduction procedures are used mainly in the crown area (the top of the scalp behind the the hairline area) to cut out areas of baldness and then the adjacent hair covered skin can be stretched over the area.

How do I know if I am a good candidate?

An ideal candidate is someone with dense hair in the permanent fringe of hair-bearing scalp. A patient with light-colored hair and pale skin (as opposed to dark hair and light skin) may appear to have a denser look. Patients with very wavy curly hair may require fewer sessions than someone with straight hair. While hair transplants look very natural, the end result may not achieve the density or total coverage that you had when you were a teenager. Results can vary from patient to patient.