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50% of males have some baldness also called male pattern baldness or MPD. Other type of baldness can be due to burns, post surgery, post injury or traction alopecia in which continuous traction leads to baldness seen in women and people wearing tight turbans. Degree of baldness is mainly determined genetically whether from paternal or maternal side.
Hair cycle
Hair on scalp has its own cycle called hair cycle.
Catagen: Hairs are shed but roots still remain and grow after some time.
Telogen: Hair growth is in dormancy temporarily.
Anagen: in this phase hair grows.
Hair transplantation, also called hair restoration surgery is only way of growing naturally occurring hair which can be washed, dyed,
cropped and styled. Hair are taken from back of scalp which resists baldness and transplanted in front.
Hair transplantation is done under local anesthesia, in which patient is always awake and comfortable. Hair from back of scalp are surgically harvested as a strip and implanted in hair line in front. Follicle is basic physiological unit containing one two or three hair strands. FUT (Follicular unit transfer) and FUG (Follicular unit graft) is same but varying in method of removal from scalp. In one strip of scalp is taken and individually broken into follicles while in FUT individual follicles are taken out and reimplanted. Tailor-made individual requirements of patient are met and works to achieve goal of natural looking flowing hair line which is free flowing are created. Minor dressing is done and patient can go back to his home. State of art equipments are used to harvest each follicle for
Proceduree
It is imperative that patient should know type of Baldness as per Norwood scale.This is basically hair loss in increasing amount of area to be covered.It has nothing to do with reason of hairloss but helps in understanding degree of difficulty in doing hair transplantation.
As the type increases in number, so does the number of follicles needed.
After calculating type of baldness through Norwood scale.This table gives idea of numberFollicles needed for hair transplantation.It is important to understand that this is estimate based on average calculations which may have some variation.Crowen area may have to be done in separate sitting.Mega session should be limited to prevent ischemia injury to harvested hair follicles.
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