There is a lot involved when it comes to hair transplants. Hair transplants are not to be taken lightly. It’s quite an operation that has a very real impact on your body. You have to endure some real discomfort after getting one.
In order to get a good overview of the steps involved in getting a hair transplant, I have compiled a list of three steps that you will likely have to go through when you decide to get a hair transplant done.
1. Because the hair on the back of your head is resistant to DHT (the balding hormone), these hairs are used to transplant them to a balding area of your scalp. After you have received anesthesia in the back of your head, a doctor excavates a strip of hair by making incisions and lifting the strip out of your head. The wound is then stitched up.
2. Since the hair transplant involves carefully placing tiny groups of hairs back into your scalp, the strip of hair is dissected into grafts. A medical team carefully cuts the strip of hair into tiny groups of one, two, three or four hair follicles. These grafts are later used in the actual transplant procedure.
3. Once the medical team is done dissecting your hair strip, there is a collection of hair grafts available for transplanting. Before the actual transplant procedure begins, the doctor makes a number of tiny openings in your scalp. He can either use a medical instrument or a precision laser for this. These openings are little wounds that will hold the grafts. Over the next few hours, the medical staff will implant the grafts into the openings.
These steps pretty much summarize what is involved in getting a hair transplant. The hair from the back of your head is DHT resistant and is therefore used in balding areas of your scalp. These hairs are obtained by dissecting a strip of hair that comes from the back of your head. The grafts that this procedure yields, are implanted into tiny openings on your scalp. When these openings heal up, the grafts are firmly in place. The hair from these grafts then continues to grow normally.
After your transplant is complete, the hairs will continue to grow normally for two weeks. Then, they fall out due to something called shock loss. This is normal and not something to be concerned about. It is simply a reaction of your grafts to the operation. After a while, the hairs will continue to grow normally and uninterrupted all your life long.
Hair transplants can make you look and feel a lot better. But they are not a miracle cure for baldness. The rest of your hair will continue to fall out, so you might have to get more hair transplants in the future. There are many celebrity hair transplant pictures available on the web, so make sure to take a good look before you decide to get one yourself. Also keep in mind that hair transplants are getting better and cheaper all the time. So it can pay off to put them off for a while.