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Hair Replacement
Hair replacement surgery is a procedure used to fill
in balding areas with a patient's own hair using a variety of techniques
including scalp reduction, tissue expansion, strip grafts, scalp flaps,
or clusters of punch grafts (plugs, miniplugs and microplugs). Usually
for men with male pattern baldness after hair loss has stopped. By
age 50, almost half of American men (and a substantial number of women)
are affected by
hair loss, much of which is hereditary. Micro-hair transplantation
is a state-of-the-art hair transplantation technique that has replaced
"plugs" or larger grafts of hair. Most micro-hair transplant
procedures (individual hair micrograft restorations) use local anesthesia
and are performed on an outpatient basis. Other procedures such as
flap surgery, require general anesthesia and are performed in a surgical
setting. After approximately six weeks, the transplanted hair will
fall out and be replaced about three months later when the new hair
grows in. To achieve sufficient density, several sessions may be required.
Transplantation is a progressive process requiring hundreds of micro-grafts,
each of which will generally contain from one to three hairs mini-grafted
from a donor site on the side or back of the head. They are randomly
implanted in the bald (or thinning) area so that they will grow in
a natural pattern and produce an undetectable result. Because of considerable
surgical advances with improved results, interest in hair replacement
surgery has recently increased significantly.
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