What is Hair Transplant

What is Hair Transplant:-

In very simple words, Hair Transplant is a surgical technique in which individual hair follicles are moved from the "Donor site" to bald or balding part of the body known as "Recipient site".
Hair Transplant is primarily used to treat male pattern baldness, where by 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 eye brows, breaded hair and to fill in scars caused by accidents or surgery such as face lifts and previous hair transplants.

FUE is the most advanced technique of hair transplant.

Patient selection for hair transplant

1.Inadequate response to medication
2. Signification hair loss
3. Any disease causing hair loss have been ruled out.
4. No medical contradiction to surgery.
5. Reasonable patient expectation.

Hair Transplant Guildlines of care

1. Physicians qualification.
2. Facility.
3.Preoperative counselling and informed consent form.
4.Methods
5. Patient selection.
6. Medical therapy.
7. Anaesthesia.
8. Donor dissection, recipient insertion
9. Density.

By Nisha Chauhan