Hair Transplant

Hair transplantation is a surgical procedure that involves moving hair follicles from one part of the body (the donor site) to bald or balding parts (the recipient site). It is primarily used to treat male pattern baldness, whereby grafts containing hair follicles from back of that are genetically resistant to balding are transplanted to bald area . However, it is also used to restore eyebrows, and beard hair, and to fill in scars caused by accidents or surgery such as face-lifts and previous hair transplants.

Hair transplantation differs from skin grafting in that grafts contain almost all of the epidermis and dermis surrounding the hair follicle, and many tiny grafts are transplanted . Since hair naturally grows in follicles that contain groupings of 1 to 4 hairs, today FUE is the most advanced techniques of hair transplant. Thus modern hair transplantation can achieve a natural appearance of hairs.

• Patient Selection for hair transplant
• Inadequate response to medication
• Significant hair loss
• Any disease causing hair loss have been ruled out
• No medical contraindication to surgery
• Reasonable patient expectations.

Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) Hair Transplant

Follicular unit extraction or FUE is a hair transplant technique in which a small round punch is used to extract follicular units from a patient’s bald resistant donor areas. These 1, 2, 3 and 4 hair follicular unit grafts are then transplanted into a patient’s balding areas.

Pre Preparation of Hair Transplant

Once you decide to undergo hair transplantation from us, we will fix an appropriate date which is convenient to you. You will be required to undergo some routine blood tests. A file folder containing your medical records,consent form, pre-op instructions, basic facts about the procedure of hair transplant, post-op instructions will be made.

On the day of Hair transplant surgery, please have a head bath and a heavy breakfast.

Once you arrive at our clinic, we will click the pictures of you bald area as well as the donor area.Then we trim and prepare the donor area from the back of the head for transplant it to the bald place (or place of implant like moustache, eyebrow, beard).

How a FUE Hair Transplant is performed?

FUE hair transplant is a surgical procedure in which skin containing hair follicular unit (each unit has 1-5 hairs) are extracted from one part of the body (the donor site) to implant to bald area (the recipient site). The hair transplantation here is done under local anesthesia; the patient remains conscious during the period of surgical procedure of hair transplantation. Hair transplant by FUE is done in sessions in one session patient can have 2-4 sittings in which he can get about 2000-3000 follicular grafts combined from scalp and body and even more if the patient desire so.

FUE is today’s most advance technique of hair transplant, which gives permanent and natural appearance to the person who undergoes hair transplant here from India as well as abroad. A person after transplantation can go back to his work within 24 hours and later on use any kind of shampoo & oil. Next session transplant surgery can be done after a period of 6-8 months.

Primarily this technique was used to restore male pattern baldness only but now days this technique is used to restore moustache, beard, eyebrow hair plantation and restoration of hair in women as well. Hair of any part of the body can become donor and can be transplant to any part of the body.

Care after hair transplant

You are required to spray normal saline in the implanted area 2 hourly for first 5 days after the FUE hair surgery to prevent drying of the graft area.

It is recommended that the patient (if he is in-station) should turn up the next day for review of the donor area, cleaning of the area and fresh bandage if required. The dressing on the forehead is usually removed. If he cannot turn up, he can remove the bandage on his own also.

Small crusts start appearing in the donor area. There is nothing to worry about as the scabs start falling and the hair start growing in the donor area again .

Just like any other hair transplant, swelling may appear on the forehead 24 hours after FUE surgery. If it does come, then it increases for about the 3 days, comes around the eyes and cheeks and takes about a week to settle down. This is totally physiological, there is nothing to worry about it as it occurs because of the gravity and settles on its own without any further medication. During that time you can wear sunglasses and a baseball cap.

You can clean your hair with a mild shampoo 5 days after the implantation without rubbing them and then subsequently after 10 days by gently rinsing them. There might be some redness in the implanted area in the post-op period but this is again part of the natural healing phase. Avoid direct exposure to sunlight for about 3 weeks.

Avoid the following strenuous activities for 3 weeks after FUE hair transplant: Body building, soccer, swimming.