Hair Transplant Surgery

Is Your Hair Thin? Are You Bald/Balding?
Learn How to Naturally REGROW Lost Hair

Hair transplant surgery is an attractive option for many men faced
with male pattern baldness, which affects more than half the men in the
United States over the age of 50. There are several medicinal options
to stimulate hair growth but these treatments don’t always produce the
desired results, side effects can be unpleasant, and the revitalized
hair growth lasts only as long as the patient is taking the medicine.

Men
most often lose hair on the top of their heads and along the forehead.
Hair on the sides and in the back of their heads usually remains
vigorously growing throughout the man’s life. The hair growing
abundantly is genetically programmed to do so and retains that genetic
programming even if it is moved to another spot on the head.

Hair
transplant surgery “borrows” some of that vigorously growing hair from
the sides and the back of the head and transplants it onto the top of
the head where the hairline has receded or is thinning.

One
very natural-looking type of hair transplant surgery is known as
follicular unit transplantation. Strands of hair naturally emerge from
the hair follicle in groups of one to four strands per follicle. These
follicular units can be plucked from the donor areas and grafted in
natural-looking patterns in the transplant area, where it will continue
to grow for a lifetime.

In other versions of hair transplant
surgery, larger plugs of scalp are taken from the donor areas and are
grafted as needed. This method of transplant can be highly successful
but the final effect isn’t as natural looking as is the follicular unit
transplant.

Still another option for hair transplant surgery
is called a scalp reduction. In this procedure, the part of the scalp
that has become bald is surgically removed. The skin sporting healthy
hair growth from around the excision is then pulled together and
sutured closed. Once the surgical wound has healed, hair can be styled
to hide any remaining scars.

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