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Why did
laser hair loss restoration fail?
Author :
hairlaserremoval.co.uk
Risks
and side effects of laser hair loss treatment
Most of the reports and experiments confirmed that not only is laser hair transplant inappropriate for follicular unit transplantation, it is actually detrimental regardless of whatever different modifications and variations of laser hair restoration procedure it is tried.
The reason for failure of laser hair restoration lies in the procedure itself and has nothing do with a hair transplant surgeon not being efficient in the procedure. The laser beams have the properties of "selective photo-thermolysis" (this is the ability to destroy a specific target without injuring the surrounding tissue).
Hair transplant surgery is different in this regard from other surgeries because of the lack of a target tissue. And when one is using laser hair transplant surgery for channel creation, it is actually making use of the destructive properties of the laser. The laser literally burns a recipient hole in the skin and actually damages the surrounding skin in the process. And all the claims made by laser companies for a new class of laser causing no thermal damage, is anything but true.
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Regardless of the source and the type, a laser is something which causes thermal damage by burning the tissue by its high energy. The laser hair restoration technique always leaves surface change and scarring. Not only this, high energy laser beams used for laser hair transplants may damage hairs existing near the implant site because of burning of the surrounding tissue.
There is another drawback of laser hair transplant surgery which is more critical than the one discussed above. The high energy of the laser beam leads to the closing of the blood vessels. This characteristic feature of the laser beam is useful in other types of surgery where it helps to close wounds and provides quick healing. But in the case of hair replacement surgery, blood supply is very crucial for nourishing the grafts after they are transplanted. This is the main concern about a laser hair transplant surgery. Laser assisted transplants either are not able to grow or heal more slowly and have unpredictable growth due to impaired blood flow.
The thermal damage caused by the laser hair
restoration to the surrounding tissue destroys the
collagen and weakens the elastic support around the
newly transplanted grafts. It also increases the
coagulum (clot) around the graft which, in turn,
decreases oxygen perfusion and retards healing. The
uniformly created channels created by laser hair
transplant surgery lose all its promise when the
laser "loosens" the "snug fit" between the
transplanted graft and recipient site. And this is
the reason why laser hair restoration results in
unpredicted and slow growth of the hair follicle.
The advantage of laser towards decreasing bleeding
at the recipient site is also of not much use. A
hair transplantation surgeon can decrease bleeding
more effectively by the use of precision instruments
and better hair transplant procedures than using
laser.
Regardless the hair restoration procedure a hair
transplant doctor uses, maximizing the growth of a
transplant is the primary aim of any hair transplant
surgery. And whatever the type of implanted graft,
whether it is a single follicular unit or a group of
follicular units, restoring the blood supply to the
graft is of utmost importance. Since the laser hair
transplant surgery fails to accomplish the vital
function of restoring the blood flow, laser hair
restoration is to be simply ignored as a hair
restoration procedure.
