Hair Transplant Procedure

Few people outside the doctor-patient community in the trichology field know that hair can be re-grown through such painless procedures and one can regain their youth in a year or two. It’s not just about regaining your youth, regaining your confidence but doing your best to retain all the relationships that you have forged in all these years. Follicular unit extraction ( FUE ) is applied to many other hair transplants like body hair, eyebrow, beard transplant owing to its effectiveness and ability to ensure 100% safe and guaranteed clinical outcomes.

Till about a decade ago, hair weaving was manually done or some people used to put on wigs. Others left their hair as it is while women found a quick fix in shoulder cut or blunt cut hair. Later, more understanding developed about the multiplicity of factors that acted as a catalyst for hair loss. Trichologists focus on all aspects transplant, oral medications, topical creams, vitamin deficiency to ensure that there is no relapse of hair loss.

Tell us what happens on the day of the surgery?

The idea behind all hair loss surgeries is to ensure a natural outcome. And the best hair transplant surgeon in Delhi focus on ensuring that they meet or exceed the expectations of the client. The primary way of doing it is to obtain, preserve and transplant hair using this naturally occurring follicular unit.

• Step 1: The idea is to transplant the hair follicles from the donor area to the recipient area one by one as donor hair is a precious resource. Patients are made to recline and administered local anaesthesia to ensure no pain occurs.
• Step 2: The extracted hair is stored in a chemical solution and examined under the microscope to remove any fat.
• Step 3: Donor sites are closed with dissolvable sutures. Most of these donor sites are located behind or on sides of the scalp as hair is quite plentiful in this area.
• Step 4: While the scalp is being prepared for transplantation, rest of the members of the team are slivering and grafting the strand of hair into individual follicular units for transplantation.  It’s a very tiring microscopic work involving intense mental and physical concentration.
•  Step 5: Once the hair follicles are placed either manually or robotically in the direction of hair growth using a specially made instrument that makes pores in the scalp and inserts the hair with the follicle into the pores at the right angle cum depth.

Tell us what happens after the procedure?

Some patients do not experience any discomfort but others feel pain, redness, swelling and similar such symptoms that go away with time. For the first five days a topical antibiotic is applied and a long course of oral medications and topical creams is started to suppress the symptoms that cause hair loss. It takes about one to two years to see the full results as it is a slow, steady process needing care and concentration. Diet, sleep, medicines and an anxiety free life will keep you away from hair loss for a long time to come.