Hair transplantation
There are two different ways of hair transplantation. The first method of transplantation is a hair follicle transplant simultaneously with skin areas (they are called grafts), on which a sufficient amount of active foliated follicle has been preserved. This procedure is carried out in several stages: a small strip of graft is cut out of the Sodor's skin area, after which this skin is implanted between hair that has retained its vitality, or on a bald patch. Already after a few months, the result of this procedure is observed, i.e. hair after transplantation begin to grow in new place after thirteen to fifteen weeks.
The second method of hair transplantation is a procedure that is much more complicated than the first and requires great accuracy; it is a seamless transplantation, representing a single point transplant not of a whole strip of skin, but of a separate hair follicle.
The hair follicle is extracted from the donor skin area without the use of incisions. Accuracy in work is achieved with the help of special optical instruments and instruments. It is not necessary to say that this procedure is very complicated, but it differs from its advantage, i.e. hair transplanted to a new place will grow faster, and this means that there is no need to expect a result for several months - the hair begins to grow right after the procedure.
Advantages and disadvantages of the procedure
If to compare with other methods of combating premature baldness, autotransplantation has a significant advantage. Firstly, transplanting your own hair from a donor site, you will not get side effects, do not risk getting tissue rejection, which is accompanied by very unpleasant consequences. The patient after the procedure can in the near future count on a full-fledged hair growth, to which you can apply a variety of hairdressing procedures, such as perm, staining and much more.
Autotransplantation, in contrast to other methods, where hair for transplantation is taken only in the head, involves hair transplantation and other areas of the body with hair.
In addition, the hair transplant on the head is associated with some significant shortcomings. The main disadvantage of such procedures is the length of waiting for the growth of hair. If we consider that hair growth is a rather slow process, then in the case of skin graft transplantation, this process is delayed for a longer period. Such a procedure, although it has less risk than transplanting an artificial hair, however autotransplantation somehow leaves some consequences in the form of postoperative scars and scars, and their correction is quite complicated, since the scalp is by nature very thin. Another big problem, i.e. full hair loss, may result in an autologous transplant. All the hair from the transplanted hair follicle falls out within a few weeks, the growth of the hair begins only after a certain period of time - two, and sometimes four months after the surgical intervention. Also, any transplantation carries the risk of dying of the hair follicle, and this suggests that getting a thick head of hair will not be so easy.
Technique of hair transplant surgery
The transplantation of the hair, including individual areas of the skin - grafts, from the scalp of the occiput and temple is performed by the method of cutting out pieces of skin together with hair follicles, which are arranged by groups, followed by transplantation to the areas of alopecia. Grafts have a completely different size - there are very small, they are mini grafts, and they have a very small number of hair follicles. Approximately three months should pass, so that the implanted skin with the bulbs has taken root and the longest growth of hair has begun. Scars after surgery remain almost invisible.
A seamless method of hair transplantation, i.e. point transplantation of individual hair follicles, is performed by the operating method using a microscope. The place of extraction of individual hair bulbs is the occipital and temporal areas, where the hairy part of the skin is not affected by alopecia. With the help of special tools and without applying incisions, bulb transplantation is performed on the prepared areas of alopecia. As a result of this operation, the growth rate of the hairy bulbs, transplanted from other sites, approximately the same as the original one, means that it will not be necessary to wait three months.
Surgical treatment of alopecia obsolete methods
A very popular method was a tightening of the skin in the places of alopecia. Removing the skin on the spot, baldness, made the screed and stitching of the wounds. Such methods have long since become obsolete, as the residual phenomena in the form of appreciable scarring did not meet the aesthetic requirements of the patient's appearance.
It was applied earlier and transplantation, more precisely, implantation of artificial hair. However, similar operations had great complications, the reason for this is the poor adhesion of synthetic hair. This was accompanied by the appearance of pustules around the implantation of the hair, which in itself caused a secondary fallout of the furred cover, followed by the formation of scars in these places. And in addition to these troubles associated with such a transplantation, there was another significant problem, it was an endless itch that manifested itself with greater force at night, thereby causing nervous disorders.