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Hair Transplant Procedures and Facts about Hair Transplant

Hair transplant is the latest craze not only for those who have lost their hair to untimely fall but even for them who want to alter their hairlines or acquire an attractive mane. But are hair transplants really safe and successful? Is it a lasting process or does this procedure result in unwarranted tissue changes in the body? Steps for hair transplant It is a surgical process that involves the removal of hair follicles from any site in the body like face or legs and planting them on the hairless portion. This process is also used in transplanting hair in lashes and brows. The latest techniques are permanent and they pick up follicular clusters of hair. This process is called Follicular Hair Transplantation (FUT) which can be done in two ways, strip harvesting and follicular unit extraction (FUE). In strip harvesting, skin strips with good hair growth are planted on balding areas, and in the follicular unit, extraction hair clusters with their roots are manually removed and pl

How To Search For The Best Hair Transplant Surgeon

Thousands of people wake up every day and realize they are losing their hair. This usually has the effect of creating mild panic at best or even complete despair. Once the initial shock wears off the first thing that comes to mind is how to stop the loss or even get their hair back. Many people will turn to hair transplant surgery to address their newfound problem. The first question they try to answer is; which hair transplant surgeon is the best? In order to answer this question, you’ll need to start with the basics. First, you’ll need to do a bit of research to educate yourself about your own hair loss situation. What is your pattern of loss? Are you a Norwood 3? Are you a Norwood 6? What is a “Norwood pattern”? Or perhaps you have hair loss that is not the typical patterned type and is diffuse thinning with no pattern. If so, it may not be genetic or inherited, but instead what is known as scarring or non-scarring alopecia. For non-patterned types of hair loss, you will need t