Hair Transplantation Facts

If you are losing your hair you really need to understand how hair transplantation can make you look younger again.  On average, when a man is balding most people view him as being 10 to 15 years older than he really is.  This is because we tend to associate baldness with old age.  Unfortunately, the man only looks older on the outside and on the inside he is still young and vibrant.  It is unfair that society treats balding men as somehow "not good enough" but that's the way it is.  Your only recourse is to find a way to get hair growing back where the bald spot is now.

One of the best methods for getting a full head of good looking hair again is with hair transplantation surgery.  This method, also known as a hair implant procedure, involves using some of the excess hair follicles on parts of the scalp that still have hair growth and moving them to the area that is bald.  The result is very natural looking because the hair shafts are your own so they match the other hair around the bald spot perfectly.

The procedure is really very straight forward.  First a strip of scalp with good hair growth is removed.  Most men, even if they are completely bald on top of their head, still have good hair density at the back of the scalp.  This give a very good donor area for healthy hair follicles.

A technician next removes and cleans the individual hair follicles and prepares them for the hair transplantation procedure.  After suturing the areas that were used as donor sites, the surgeon prepares the bald area for the new hair.  This involves marking out the placement of the individual hair shafts and the direction they will be inserted.  This is important so the resulting hair does not just stick up all over the place like a freak show.

The surgeon will then proceed to place the individual hairs into the scalp at the predetermined places and with the correct orientation.  There may be a few thousand individual hair transplants so this can be a fairly tedious process.  A large area to be covered usually can be done in one day at the doctor's office though. 

As the cosmetic surgeon is inserting the hair he or she is making sure that they match the direction of the surrounding hair growth perfectly.  This is accomplished by the direction of the insertion technique.

The results of this hair transplantation procedure is a great looking, full head of hair that is almost unnoticeable to the untrained eye.  It looks amazing and you don't have to worry about it falling off or the side effects of some hair regrowth drugs.  Getting hair implants is a great way to look and feel younger again.

Start looking today for a good hair transplantation surgeon and start on the road to getting a full head of hair.  The amount of hair a man has a direct result on how others view him.  If you are tired of being thought of as the old, bald guy then get your new head of hair today.