Hair replacement

Introduction

Male baldness is a complex aesthetic problem, creating complexes. Hair loss is caused by many factors: aging, genetic causes, hormonal alterations. It can also appear in cases of burns or complex local traumatisms.
The surgical techniques for solving male baldness have been used for more than 30 years, and are being constantly improved.

What can patients benefit from hair replacement?

There are many techniques for solving male baldness but all of them use one's own hair. The surgeon must find the best way to use it. Not any baldness can be solved with hair transplant and this is why it is essential to have an exact diagnosis base on anamneses, clinical and laboratory exams. The surgery is not recommended to patients with lupus sebaceous, plane lichen, folliculitis or sclerodermia. Special attention must also be paid to one's tendency to form keloid scars or to blood diseases.
The candidates for hair transplant must have a healthy donator area at the back and in lateral areas.

Surgery's risks

There is no surgery without risk. Usually hair transplant is a safe surgical procedure if it done by a qualified surgeon. Yet, the reaction of patients is individual, so the result can not be predicted entirely as complications, infections, excessive bleeding, scar widening may set in. There is also a risk that the graft will not survive. When hair loss advances after the surgery, an unnatural patchy look may appear, especially if the transplanted hair (which usually does not fall) is near areas that continue to space out.