Georgia LigdaMD, Plastic Surgeon Ph.D.Hair transplant expert Psychological impact of scalp hair loss The pre-operative consultation Patients are usually very anxious as they expect maximum improvement and or complete restoration of their hair loss. Depending on the age and the possible future progress of their AGA pattern, patients need to consult about hair transplantation as a procedure as well as…
The patient’s usual/typical expectations The operation’s typical characteristics Explanations to the patient Hair transplant is a surgical operation applied on live human tissue on an awake person. The above means that: Restoration of the alopecia Complete restoration of the AGA alopecia pattern in a single hair transplant depends on the followings: Limitations of the Surgical procedure Hair transplant is done…
The differences between the two techniques are very essential regarding mainly the surgical skin trauma (injury) and its consequences. In the strip technique the most important issue is not just the apparent to some extent skin scar at the donor area, but mainly the technique’s aftereffects to the treatment result itself. The preparation – formation of…
Hair transplant is a surgical procedure that involves two major treatment periods The surgery Presuppositions for a surgically successful hair transplant The recovery period It involves: 1. The healing process 2. The permanent reception of the skin hair follicular grafts in the recipient skin As in any case of skin transplantation, so in the case of hair transplantation the skin…
The method
Extraction from the occipital part of the scalp (donor area) of skin micro grafts that contain various number of hair follicles
Implantation of these grafts to the alopecia area without any kind of processing/damaging them and without making any previous reception holes but instead placing them immediately into the skin with the use of implanters.
The method
Extraction from the occipital part of the scalp (donor area) of skin micro grafts that contain various number of hair follicles
Implantation of these grafts to the alopecia area without any kind of processing/damaging them and without making any previous reception holes but instead placing them immediately into the skin with the use of implanters.
There is no need to shave the whole head for a hair transplant with the FUE/implanters method, but only the occipital part (donor area) of it. This ‘navy shave’ as it is called, is the scalp shave of choice for two reasons:
Hair transplantation for the restoration of androgenetic alopecia is purely a personal issue to the patient himself and as long as there is motivation and desire it can theoretically be carried out. Technically the procedure of hair transplantation has no age limit, unless there are such health problems that cause a functional inability for the patient to maintain the necessary…
Hair transplantation at a young age It is generally believed that scalp hair loss occurs and characterizes large age groups of men. This view is fundamentally wrong. Hair loss can be a major problem for many young men affecting negatively their psychology and causing them to have low self-esteem. It is no coincidence that many young people who lose…
