What is the survival rate in long hair technique?

One of the most prevalent fears heard about hair transplantation is about its survival and resilience to last. People who are considering going for hair transplantation often mention their concern and reservation regarding the success rate and duration of life the transplanted hair have. It is not surprising to see patients having such queries because there have been many efforts to find a viable solution for excessive hair loss but there was little that could actually be relied upon.

But the good news is, things have drastically turned around towards more hopeful and assuring side. Dr. Sajjad, a highly qualified and an expert surgeon in hair transplantation working with ILHT, talk about the greater success rate hair transplantation techniques now carry for the customers. Shun your worries, live a better future with greater reliability a hair transplant offers.

There are various techniques which are followed to restore the normal growth of transplanted hair and make them look like original. Long hair surgical technique is a conventional and reliable procedure employed to allow the bald area become full of hair again. Under this technique, an incision of about few cm in made to peel off a part of persons scalp from the hair dominant donor area with the help of skin hooks. The peeled graft contains several hairs which are then transplanted to the hair barren recipient site of the scalp.

Extensive care is required while performing this procedure otherwise hair or scalp may be damaged. The scar can easily be hidden from the hair residing above the incision. Surgeons makes sure that this technique is performed is the best possible way. The four factors taken into account when deciding recipient are; size, direction, angel and type of hair.

The way this surgery is performed in ILHT is remarkable with only 0-0.4% chances of extracted hair being damaged. Otherwise the hair remains in good shape and non-distressed. The survival rate of transplanted hair is 100% using long hair technique if it is done the right way. The direction of the hair line is kept in mind during the surgery so that new hairs are placed at right place.

Along with this, the density of the hair is also examined well by the practitioner to give it a natural look. The scar rendered by incision heals over time. Proper medication is prescribed after the surgery with post-op instructions. Normally, the recovery period takes about two months. Since the survival rate of hair is 100% in most cases with this technique, the hair adjust to the normal course of growth faster. The average rate of growth is half an inch every month initially.

The feedback of all the customers exhibits immense happiness and joy for choosing ILHT for hair transplantation. The results have been applauding and open wider perspective in the field of hair transplantation.

The mystery of hair that turns grey overnight

Hair gains its color from two kinds of melanin pigment; one is eumelanin that determines how dark the hair is, and second is pheomelanin that dictates how red or yellow it is. When one ages, the cells that produce these pigments in hair follicles stop functioning and result in colour-less hair. Everyone gets obsessed with white hair. But what about the hair that turns white overnight? Canities Subita is the term used for hair turning white overnight. The world considers this as myth but the International Journal of Trichology conducted study in 2013 and found 84 reports of speedy adult hair blanching between 1800 and the present day. As mentioned at www.theatlantic.com, Michael Nahm (who was the lead author of the 2013 study) says that “All these accounts support the notion that sudden whitening does indeed happen. Although we still don’t know how exactly it occurs. It remains an under-investigated phenomenon”.

Experts say that it is the stress and troubles that are responsible for whiten hair. It has nothing to do with the age. In other words, one can get white hair even in young of age. French nobleman Pierre de Bourdeille told about French Queen Marie Antoinette whose hair turned white the night before her execution. He said “It was not old age that had turned it white. But the troubles, misfortunes, and sorrows which she had suffered, especially in her prison.” She was killed in 1587 at age 44 and her executioner showed her head to the crowd, and revealed her short-cropped white hair. The nobleman statement is worth mentioning here “Psychosocial stress can’t affect the hair fiber that’s already formed. It can only affect the fibers as they are forming.”

The same thing happened with Captain Eric Moody whose hair turned white within six months of the incident when the four engines of his plane failed and he had to make emergency landing at Jakarta airport. Within a year the rest of his hair had done the same.

How does this happen is still not clear. Experts say that the same chemical used to bleach hair from bottles also turns hair greys. An enzyme called catalase break down hydrogen peroxide produced by Melanin-making cells. As we age, production of the enzyme drops and hydrogen peroxide built-up and block production of melanin.

Above-mentioned examples make clear that a severe shock or stress can trigger hair loss or hair pigment fall out. According to the BBC, it is necessary to examine the hair before and after a shocking incident in order to understand the hair-turn-to-grey story. It said “Life threatening situations are not only rare, but unpredictable and no ethics committee is going to let you induce a sufficiently terrifying experience in a lab volunteer”

FUE Hair Transplant

Is a hair dye cause severe hair loss after hair transplant surgery?

If a person has undergone for a hair transplant surgical operation, then he should well aware of the entire not to do list for the prevention of newly implanted hair grafts. This list included synthetic hair dyes because it has harmful chemicals and normally causes alopecia through the entire structural damage to the hair shaft.

These dyes can later damage the transplanted hair grafts, this condition is called as trichorrexia nodosa. This unpleasant hair loss condition also marked as “broken hairs”, in which the patient’s natural starts to hair fall off in the sink, in the shower, and on the bed or pillow, etc. And after sometimes, the patient has left thin hair in the newly transplanted area and donor area.

But, besides some people have a hereditary tendency to hair shaft breakage that is begun by unfavorable and harsh environmental factors like synthetic shampoos, chemical dyes and wrong technique of brushing hair.

Due to all these reasons, severe hair loss from harsh hair dye is 100% possible because of their dangerous components. These ingredients direct reacts on a scalp color/tone and natural hair shaft color/tone and after sometimes it creates a “thinning” hair appearance. It also affects the growth rate of hair, so a patient should understand what things are right for his hair life span. After the hair transplantation, your surgeon gives you a prevention list; all you have to do is follow it properly.

Is it protective and safe to use any Antibiotic ointment on hair grafts after hair surgery?

After surgery, it is the best solution that you should consult with your doctor for any antibiotic ointment. But the ointment should be harmful chemical free. But you should avoid putting a thick layer of any ointment (Polysporin, Bacitracin, Neosporin, or even Vaseline) on the grafts right away, as this can obstruct with the coagulation that occurs at the interface of the graft with the recipient site.

The healthiest way to protect your scalp with any contagious bacteria or any harmful disease is to keep your scalp clean, first after best you should apply some baby oil first to assist liquefy the antibiotic ointment, and then use given ointment to all over your scalp with the help of cotton buds. It keeps your scalp free from any foreign germs. You should daily use any medicated conditioner the patient likes could be used. After hair transplantation, the scalp swells so, medicated creams decreases all the swelling and irritation, but aren’t quite as efficacious in scab removal.

You transplanted hair grafts are very sensitive, so you should apply Vitamin E/aloe cream every night in the grafted area and just take a shower with medicated recommended shampoo every morning. Around 20% of hair transplanted patients choose to purchase and use the Grafter kit with copper pep tide. This kit is very beneficial in the protection of your transplanted graft, but, it is superior to simply spraying a saline mist on the grafts every hour of the waking day, which is also given by surgeon to each patient.

Is there any chance to damage the follicles prior before the transplantation process?

No, there is no possibility to damage the existence hair follicles. Hair transplantation is a costly surgical method and off course everyone is concern about its outcomes. This procedure is absolutely harmless and protected and does not cause loss of hair follicles in the recipient area. Many patients have so many concerns about shock loss of hairs after transplantation, and they think it is caused by the damage of existence hair follicles. But it’s not true.

Basically this method may cause a short-term “shock” loss of the hair but it doesn’t mean your existence follicles will affect after having this surgery. Shock hair loss is a physiologic reaction to the distress to the scalp which is caused by a hair transplant.

But after some time it will be back to the normal condition and your hair come back approximately 6 months. When the doctor cut your scalp for the surgery and places the grafts on the hair follicles, it will regrow and your existence follicles will help to restore your hairs. All the instruments are very advanced and tested in the lab so it has not a single chance to destroy your hair follicles.

Hair that completed its lifespan may not return. When a transplantation surgery is done at the correct time, in the proper patient, shock hair loss should just be an incidental problem. Go and discuss to your doctor. They will give you better solutions because the results are different from person to person, but normally it works as a solution to fight with baldness and give you a perfect hairline without affect on your follicles and scalp.

After hair transplantation, full hair grows takes some time like maximum 10 to 12 months

As you know that the human hair is likely to grow slowly (approximately 6 inches a year). But after transplantation the transplanted hairs often shed during the surgical procedure, it takes a year (or more) to reach the preferred length. Patience is the only way out and solution after transplantation. Remember that every patient is dissimilar and hair will start to develop at different times.

Sometime after transplantation, the patients will see some nice growth on one side of their head and not the other. This matter disturbs the patient and he concern and worry about his hairs but the fact is it is perfectly normal.

The procedure is assured for its best results and your transplanted hair is still growing to your optimal length. The last and most favorable result of hair transplant is observable within 1 year. After the transplant most of the patient will suffer shock hair loss but it will overcome with time and the hairs will grow after some months. The growing process is slowly and gradually.

Don’t panic and go to your doctor. He will prescribe the minoxidil treatment, because it is the best medicine to stop hair loss after the hair transplantation. If the surgical treatment has been done in the correct way so it will give you benefit in hair grow.  Usually 70-80% hair growth is expected at 6 months after a FUE procedure. But after one year you will still observe improvement and thickening in your hair.

Rohit Amin Indian gulf union president Hair Transplant

Rohit Amin Indian gulf union president from Surgeon Pk

Hair Transplant Surgery Guidelines for Youngsters

Male hair pattern baldness is becoming quite common amongst all groups of people. But it has become a common problem amongst youngsters which makes them look older than their age fellows and has led to making them quite conscious. This leaves them no choice but to opt for hair transplant surgery to look young as well as smart in order to boost their confidence.

Even though, many surgeons have a policy of not operating patients under the age of 25 but such policy should not be implemented as young patients are highly motivated and are highly healthy due to lack of medications. However, few guidelines should be kept in mind for these youngsters while hair transplantation.

The first recommendation is to place the hairline much higher than what the patient requirements. It should be 9 centimetres above the eye brows. This would protect the giver hair for later in case, another surgery is needed later in life so there would be enough hair to serve as donors.

Secondly, a higher hairline gives a much more natural look as the patient ages it would look much suitable. Also, it is possible to lower the hairline but it is impossible to raise it once the surgery is performed.

Next, the transplantation should be done at the forehead at the start. This is because it is much easier to start from the front and move back as the hair start declining. If transplantation of hair is done at the crown in the start so it would become much difficult to use hair for surgery later in life and donor hair would become minimal.

Furthermore, a surgeon should be cautious while transplanting temporal angles. Although, temporal fringes flatten with age, a permanent one supplied by this surgery would look quite inappropriate as a person gets older.

Side by side, the surgeon must conduct proper tests of the patient in order to develop a clear idea regarding future hair loss. This would be quite helpful in the future and the donor hair should be saved accordingly.

The surgeon must select such a donor area that is safe and in the future is less likely to thin over time so it can be used in the later years as well for a similar surgery.  It is much easier to get a surgery at an early age using safe donor area and use the rest later in case of further issues. (Lam: 2014)

It would be much easier, if a young man gets a hair transplant surgery as it would be much more effective and he wouldn’t be much self-conscious and can live his life easily.

References

 

• Samuel M. Lam, 2014. Hair transplantation 360: Volume 3. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2014.