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    • Hair Transplant

    Suneet Soni

    Director at Medispa Hair Transplant
    Hair transplantation is a surgical technique that moves individual hair follicles from a part of the body called the 'donor site' to bald or balding part of the body known as the 'recipient site'. It is the transfer of strong and permanent hair roots which were removed from the back side of head through special techniques and these roots are grafted in the skin on the bald area or in between the hair where the density has to be increased. It is primarily used to treat male pattern baldness. Since hair naturally grows in groupings of 1 to 4 hairs, today’s most advanced techniques harvest and transplant these naturally occurring 1–4 hair "follicular units" in their natural groupings. Thus modern hair transplantation can achieve a natural appearance by mimicking nature hair for hair. This hair transplant procedure is called Follicular unit transplantation (FUT). Donor hair can be harvested two different ways: strip harvesting, and follicular unit extraction (FUE).

    In the early days, hair transplantation did not receive much interest in public for many years because the treatment resulted in unnatural looks like bunch of bushes.

    Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) is a hair restoration technique where a patient's hair is transplanted in naturally occurring groups of 1 to 4 hairs, called follicular units. Follicular units also contain sebaceous (oil) glands, nerves, a small muscle, and occasional fine vellus hairs. In Follicular Unit Transplantation these small units allow the surgeon to safely transplant thousands of grafts in a single session, which maximizes the cosmetic impact of the procedure.

    Steps for Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation;

    A) Removal of the Flap of Predetermined Length and Width from the Donor Site: A strip of scalp is removed from the donor site in between the ears. The crucial point of the process is the accurate determination of the flap size, which should not exceed 1 cm in the ear zone and 1,5 cm at the posterior scalp in width and will have the length to correspond to the number of grafts planned.

    B) Suturing the Donor Site after the Flap Removal: After removal of the flap, the open wound in the donor site is sutured back. The depth of the scar that may remain after suturing is effected by the elasticity and softness of the skin under the hair, and the type of stitching material and the suturing technique.

    C) Dissecting the Flap Removed into Follicular Units (Grafts): We consider this stage as one of the most important steps in the FUT method. For how large the flap you remove may be or how many micro-channels you develop. Sufficient hair will grow on the recipient site only when the number of follicles obtained vividly is maximized in number. 
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