Hair Loss Replacement Surgery

How Hair Loss Replacement Surgery Works?

For those that do not know a lot about what surgery for hair loss is, allow this to be your short introduction.

Hair loss replacement surgery involves taking grafts of single hairs and placing them on your scalp in areas that they will grow and provide you with a full head of hair. Each graft is carefully created out of your own scalp (the hairs are taken from areas that have higher hair growth) and then individually placed into grafts which are then placed into your scalp using very tiny pins that push the graft into place.

Hair loss replacement surgery has evolved over the years so that now the surgeons are better able to place your hairs in such a way that they will grow in the natural direction that you want the hairs to grow. Before, when the technology was worse, the grafting would simply place the hair in your head and growth would just occur wherever it occurs. Now they cut slits to make sure that the hairs grow in the natural direction.

Hair loss replacement surgery involves quite a bit of numbing, antibiotics and bleeding, though none of these occur in large doses and the surgery is not at all life threatening. Approximately 50 grafts (50 hairs) are placed in square centimeter of hair, meaning that over an entire bald head approximately 3,000 grafts will be placed down. Each graft costs approximately 4-5 dollars, so it is a considerable expense regardless of how many hairs you need transplanted.

Despite the number of hairs plucked out and placed in your scalp during the hair replacement surgery, most surgeries take only 4 hours at most and then allow the individual to go home, though some surgeries require the individual come back to finish the job.

Shock Loss

One of the most interesting side effects of hair loss replacement surgery is 'Shock Loss' which is the sudden loss of the new hairs in random patches on your head. These hairs are likely to grow back in 3 to 6 months, but at first they are tossed out by your follicle as it feels the stress of being relocated to a new area on your scalp.

The best defense is a good offense, so rather than go through the surgery you would be far better off taking a supplement to stop hair loss before it gets bad enough that you need hair loss replacement surgery by using a product like Procerin.