How can cosmetic surgery correct your baldness?
Cosmetic surgery can correct your baldness in more than one way.
Patients considering hair restoration surgery will have a number of questions and concerns that they will want answered. A patient of ours considering hairline lowering brought up a few that saw noteworthy:
1. How do I know if I am a good hair transplant candidate?
2. Is there any possibility the hair will fall off and affect my regular hair to fall off as well?
3. Do I have to stay home after the surgery?
4. Is there any adverse side effect caused by this type of surgery to the rest of my body or health?
Good hair transplant candidacy is based on the severity of their miniaturization or thinning of hair. Most female patients experience significant miniaturization of the hair shafts making them an unlikely candidate for hair restoration surgery. As long as the donor area shows minimal miniaturization of the hair shafts, hair restoration and / or hairline lowering is possible.
Patients with some degree of miniaturization may experience what is known as shock loss or loss of native hair after hair restoration surgery. This is due to the interruption of the surrounding hair during surgery but the effects are only temporary. The hairs lost will recover their normal growth cycle and will grow back in time. This statement does not always apply since not all patients even with some level of miniaturization do not lose their hair to shock loss.
This type of procedure is considered minimally invasive and patients can go back home the same day. Most patients can return to their normal daily routines and almost all patients recover at about the same rate. Medication is provided for take home treatment to speed up recovery time and to control swelling and redness. This surgical procedure can be easily concealed through practical means (change of hair style, make up, hat, etc.) and should not impede you from leaving home at all.
The only real adverse effect hair restoration has on any patient is that of temporary swelling and redness on the recipient area. Hair transplantation does not affect the rest of the body in any negative way. The only other concern would be based on any allergic reaction to the medications used during and after surgery. Be sure to inform your hair transplant surgeon of any medical condition and allergic reactions to medications prior to your surgery. Above all, hair restoration surgery is minimally invasive and any negative effects to the body are very unlikely to happen.
Many people who are battling hair loss wonder if a Hair Transplant surgery is the answer to their problems and many are even afraid of the word “surgery”. Most people have seen others with transplant surgery that look superficial and like a doll’s sticking out for the world to see. Typical transplant questions and fears: “extremely painful”, “It will look fake”, “not my own hair”, “transplant hair will not grow and last as I get older”, “expensive”. These are some the questions that many people have when they hear the term Hair Transplant Surgery. So are these fears true or false?
Now, let me answer some of the above fears or even questions that most people have regarding an Hair Transplant Surgery:
1. Is it Painful? Pain is a relative term. Each individual has a different tolerance of pain than the next. I have a low tolerance for pain and I can tell you that going to the dentist is more painful than having a hair transplant performed by the right surgeon.
The keyword to remember here is “right surgeon”. The surgeon has to be an expert in Hair Transplant surgery only. The cutting of the donor area is the most dramatic process during the entire surgery and it is here that some people in the past have felt great pain due to the surgeon’s lack of skill. If the surgeon is skilled there is very minimum pain and discomfort.
2. Will it look Fake? Again if the surgeon is skilled, the answer to this question would be a strong “no”.
3. It is my own hair? Yes that transplanted hair is 100% your natural hair taken from your donor area.
4. Will the transplanted hair grow and last? Yes, absolutely.
5. Is it Expensive? Depends how many grafts you need and more importantly where you get the hair transplant performed. I could tell you honestly that a hair transplant is much more expensive than “Non Surgical Treatment” for Hair Growth.
We will see what is “Non Surgical Treatment”….
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