Archive for February, 2015

Is it necessary to discuss the suggested strategy of hair transplant first with your surgeon?

A visual and good hair restoration result must remain visual over the years. To get an excellent outcome from hair transplant surgery the patient should go for a consultation. During this hair consultation session, the theoretical and technical features of a hair transplant surgery are explained in detail and your case is reviewed very carefully by your surgeon. After the consultation, the surgeon will decide what type of hair restoration strategy is good for the patient. Remember one thing is that a quality hair transplant surgery is largely reliant on the recommended strategy. The majority of people are treated in spite of aesthetics and the recommended surgery does not make sense strategically. A good hair transplant surgeon will first examine and measured the density of your scalp area and your donor scalp area with the help of a micro camera.

It is essential to know that the donor area is very limited. This means that the surgeon should manage donor hair graft stock carefully and avoid any type of waste. At the end of the consultation, you will get an absolute proper and detailed hair assessment report. Now the surgeon will discuss recommended strategy to the patient and then, he will prepare a preliminary estimate for the surgery. Each point in a hair transplant surgery has to be considered as being the last one so; the final result obtained must be self-sufficient and good. All these above factors are studied previous to the surgery as they decide the particular and exact strategy for each patient.

Why pre-operation preparations are important before having a hair transplant surgery?

Pre-operation is very essential in order to prepare your scalp for hair transplant surgery. For this purpose, the surgeons highly recommend scalp laxity exercises to patients. These exercises are really easy enough to do and they’re helpful in preparing your hair graft sites on the scalp for the transplant procedure.

Head elasticity depends according person to person, but, even if anyone has a tight scalp, so the person can ensure that this head region is conditioned to respond well to the tension. Simply put, the looser and more flexible your head is, the smoother your hair transplant treatment and healing process will be. With very easy and simple exercises, you can make sure that you get the most benefits from your transplant surgery.

The importance of pre-operation scalp preparation

At your first session, the surgeon will assess your scalp and suggest the best pre-op scalp laxity exercises for your scalp. However, all potential patients can get benefit from preparing the graft area of the scalp, and these preparations will give excellent result after hair transplant surgery.

In addition, these preparations help the harvest of more than one hair graft at a time, as well as it also improve your laxity levels. Some superior benefits and advantages are given below:

  • More accessible tissue to hair transplant
  • Fewer methods required to finish the treatment
  • A very shorter period of recovery after surgery
  • Tiny and small post-op scars