What Is Hair Transplant? Hair transplantation is a natural and permanent solution to the problem of thinning and baldness in people experiencing hair loss or hair shedding. The process of transplanting healthy hair follicles with micro surgical methods to areas where the hair follicle is no longer active and hairlessness occurs is called hair transplantation. The patient’s healthy hair is added to the area shed during hair transplantation.
Hair transplant is completely personalized and applied. With the hair transplant operation, the hair follicles in the neck area of the patient are collected and transplanted into the channels opened in the thinning or completely spilled parts. Goal; it is to give a permanent hair appearance in a natural way that will not be obvious when transplanted in the head area. A hair transplant is a small surgical operation. For this reason, it is the safest way to be applied in a hospital environment by specialists and experienced doctors and teams. With the application of hair transplant, the person’s hair is gained permanently as if never shed. Our aim in hair transplant; is to provide the person with a comfortable natural hair appearance with modern medical applications.
Who Can Have Hair Transplantation?
Today, almost 50 percent of men over the age of 50 are faced with hair loss. Therefore, hair transplantation is the most common cosmetic surgery for men. Hair loss is not only specific to men. Many women may also experience hair loss or thinning problems.
Why Does Hair Loss?
One of the most important causes of hair loss is a genetic coding feature; however, it can also occur as a result of advanced age, traumatic injuries, or various medical conditions. After being diagnosed with a doctor’s check, hair transplantation is successfully applied to all people with sufficient hair follicles in the donor area. It’s not just the scalp, the transplantation method can be successfully applied in all areas with hair in the body such as eyebrows, mustache, or beard.
How To Do A Hair Transplant?
In practice, hair follicles taken from the neck are transplanted to the targeted balding area. These hair follicles are called grafts. Rarely, in some cases, there is not enough healthy hair on the neck or temple area of the person. In such cases, hair follicles can also be taken from other parts of the person that contain hair, such as the arms or chest wall. The application takes a few hours depending on the amount of hair loss. If the hairless area is too large, several sessions may be required to complete the treatment.
Generally, hair transplantation is performed under local anesthesia with sedation. A special bandage is applied to the head after hair transplantation. The person is discharged after 1-2 hours. Although it is seen very little, pain is controlled with painkillers. Generally, after 3 days of home rest, it can be returned to business life with the head covered. The first dressing is done on the 5th day.
Which Methods Are Used For Hair Transplant?
The most commonly used hair transplant methods are DHI (Direct Hair Implant) and FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction) techniques.
The DHI method is the most popular and effective hair transplant method. In short, the DHI hair transplant is a specific variation of the FUE method. After the hair follicles are taken from the donor area manually or by the micro-motor method, they are transferred to the area waiting for transplantation by the DHI method. The most important feature that distinguishes the DHI method from other hair transplant techniques is the use of a specially developed medical instrument known as Choi Pen, Choi Implanter.
The most important advantage of hair transplants with the DHI
DHI hair transplant is that it is an unshaven hair transplant. For this reason, this technique is applied without having to shave the area to be transplanted and has become a popular hair transplant method for women. Also, there is no need to keep hair follicles outside after hair transplantation. Since Choi Pen provides a wide channel for the hair follicle, there is almost no risk of bleeding. This method does not involve any stitches or incisions.
In hair transplant with FUE, the hair follicles taken from the nape area are collected one by one without any linear cuts and transplanted to the area to be transplanted. Compared to the hair transplant methods applied so far, it is highly preferred because of the more comfortable transplantation. In this method, it is possible to perform hair transplantation by collecting hair follicles not only from the nape area but also from other parts of the body.
The most important advantage of the FUE method is that it can be performed without cut and seamless hair transplantation. In the FUE method, where bleeding occurs less, the operation time is between 4 and 8 hours in a single session.