Hair Transplant

Hair transplant surgery aims to implant the hair in bald or thinning areas of the scalp, and it’s done in several ways:

• Grafting, which is the most common. The doctor cuts a part of the scalp where there is thick hair to implant it in the desired areas. The procedure takes a few hours, and the patient is under local anesthesia. The patient also needs several surgeries, several months apart, depending on how much hair you need.
• Scalp reduction, which means removing a part of the bald scalp to reduce the balding area, is done under local anesthesia.
• Flap surgery, which means making a cut in the area that wanted to be implanted and lifting it over the bald area. This surgery requires several phases within several weeks, and it’s done under general anesthesia.
• Tissue expansion surgery, which is used in burns. The doctor puts a balloon-shaped implant under the hair area, and this balloon inflates gradually over several weeks to stretch the skin. After that, the doctor performs another surgery to cover the bald area with this stretched skin.

• Examining the patient’s health in general.
• The patient must stop smoking before the surgery.
• The patient must stop taking blood thinners (anticoagulant medications), ibuprofen, and any other medications or herbs that the surgeon mentions two weeks before the procedure.
• The patient mustn’t eat anything for 8-12 hours before the procedure when general anesthesia is used.

• Anesthesia complications.
• Failed grafts or flaps.
• Excessive blood loss.
• Loss of feeling in the scalp.
• Scarring.
• Infections.

• Some side effects could occur after hair transplantation, such as itchiness, pain, swelling, soreness, crust, and temporary loss of feeling in the scalp, and this is normal.
• You can return to your daily activities after a few days of surgery.
• You can exercise after three weeks of surgery.
• You must clean the incisions regularly.
• Immediately contact your surgeon when any sudden, odd problem or symptom emerges.
• It might take up to a year to see the final results.