The process of hair transplantation revolves around taking hair from the back area of the head, which is usually thick with hair, and is transferred to the baldness area after very careful preparation to preserve the follicles in order to ensure the growth of hair after transplantation as much as possible. Treatment of baldness, and it first started in Japan and soon spread around the world, due to the high success and safety rates of more than 99%.
Short idea
The hair transplant process revolves around taking hair from the back area of the head, which is usually dense with hair, and it is transferred to the baldness area after preparing it very carefully to preserve the follicles in order to ensure the hair growth after transplantation as much as possible.
The traditional and modern method of cultivation
§ The traditional method of transplantation consisted of taking "shoots" containing between 10-20 hairs each and then placing them in the balding area. However, this method is no longer in circulation now that the transplanted hair when it grows appears in an unusual way, and some still use this method for not practicing them And training them on the modern method, which is represented by taking shoots, each of which contains between one to three hairs only, and although this method requires experience and special training for its work, it has many advantages.
Advantages of the modern method
1- The transplanted hair grows naturally, completely within a few months, and the front line of the hair appears quite similar to a normal person, and even doctors may not recognize whether it is implanted or not (Picture 1)
2- Thanks to the progress in the process of extracting hair from the back area, the largest possible number of follicles is preserved, which provides a higher density for the transplanted area (Picture 2)
3- Hidden strings are used for the back area, making them quickly return to normal.
4- The whole transplantation takes place in several hours and the person returns to work within three to four days.
5- A person does not need to take any additional medicines or use special or expensive shampoos
6- It works for both women and men
7- The possibility of transplanting eyebrows, mustache, and chin area, after the hair has gone for injury or burn.
It is no longer expensive
At the beginning of the emergence of transplantation operations, they cost a lot of money because of the few trained in them and the exploitation of some doctors, but with the availability of accurate and modern equipment, they became inexpensive and within the reach of the average person. Perhaps this is one of the most important reasons behind its wide spread in addition to the high success rate of 99%.
The donor area looks completely normal after transplantation
Hair transplant centers
The most affected by the widespread spread of hair transplantation were wig centers, so some of them seek to spread rumors and misconceptions about the failure of hair transplantation, and some may even intimidate people with terror in the hearts of affected men and women, knowing that most of the workers in these centers are not doctors, but rather They have nothing to do with medicine at all, and many of them market their products, which cost no less than hair transplantation, and some may use glamorous words such as hair transplantation without surgery.
Cultivation and psychotherapy for baldness
Many of the men and women who suffer from baldness lose a part of their self-confidence, but some of them tend to isolate themselves and not mix with others and keep away from social events, and perhaps the solution in the past was to use one of the types of wig, but the problem is that wigs do not send confidence from within, but perhaps quite the opposite. So that it s a kind of anxiety and increased tension as a result of a person''s fear of being discovered, and studies have shown that natural hair transplantation is the best psychological treatment to restore confidence and cut isolation for many people with baldness and hair loss.
The bulbs have been carefully prepared to ensure their growth after planting
Methods for correcting faulty implants
Perhaps one of the advantages of the modern method of hair transplantation is the ability to correct the mistakes of previous implants, which are represented in the following:
1- Placing the hair on a straight geometric line is considered a line and appears unnatural. To correct this error, the hair is reshaped almost randomly as it reflects the true shape of a normal human being (Figure 3-4)
2- The donation area may show a large area devoid of hair, and it can be corrected in two scientific ways, the first by making hair grow from inside the scar and the second by removing the area and using hidden strings
3- Hair transplantation in the forehead area, and this is a lot for women, and the way to correct it is to remove hair implanted by laser, and re-implantation in the horizontal area of the head, not in the forehead.
4- The appearance of the transplanted hair is very light, and this matter can be corrected by replanting the hair by densifying the follicles in a small area and perhaps using three-haired strands to give more density.
The transplanted hair after several days of planting
Future developments in hair transplantation
Perhaps one of the most negative aspects of hair transplantation is that the amount of transplanted hair is not sufficient to cover the baldness area densely, and therefore researchers are working to find solutions to intensify the number of follicles, including taking follicles from the same person and multiplying them in accurate laboratory units for cell proliferation, and then returning them to the baldness area, these attempts have actually begun. To apply it to humans, and it still faces some difficulties, such as hair color, direction, real age, and degree of growth, but some results are expected to appear within the next five years.
Another method is to take follicles from other areas of the body, and it has some difficulties in terms of the different nature of hair than head hair.
Research is still underway to find new ways to increase the density of the implanted follicles to cover the largest possible area of baldness.
