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What to Do About Bad Hair Transplants?
If you had a hair transplant operation during past
decades, you might not be happy with the result. You
may have the type of hair transplant called hair
plugs. These make the hair stick up out of your head
like the bristles of a toothbrush. If you want to
take advantage of modern methods, it is not too late
to have more natural-looking hair.
The first thing you need to do is to find a hair
transplant surgeon who has done many hair transplant
repair surgeries. Fixing bad hair transplants is
somewhat of a specialty for certain doctors.
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Your own primary care physician may know of a
surgeon who is involved in this sort of work.
Otherwise, you can look for ads in the yellow pages
to start your search. Contacting professional
organizations is also a good idea.
Once you have found a doctor or doctors to consider,
make sure they let you see examples of their work.
It will not be enough to see what they can do with a
virgin scalp. You need to see how successful they
have been in dealing with problems such as the ones
you have. If you cannot see the patients directly,
at least ask for a look at some photos.
Talk to the surgeon about what can be done to fix
your inferior hair transplant job. If you have large
hair plugs, ask if the doctor will be removing the
plugs. The surgeon may want to take them out, break
them up into smaller units, and reinsert them. If
your plugs are smaller, he may just want to add some
new donor hair to lessen the effect of the doll head
look.
If cost is an issue with you, discuss it with your
surgeon. Cost is a very real problem for many who
want to have bad hair transplants fixed. It may be
more expensive to do the correction than an original
surgery would cost. If you do not have the cash,
your doctor can usually point you to several
different financing methods. That way, you do not
have to come up with the money all at once.
Discuss healing with your hair transplant surgeon.
Because you may be having plugs removed, you have
more healing to do than someone who is having a
routine hair transplant. You need to let the plug
sites heal as well as the new insertion sites and
possible new donor sites. It may take special
post-operative care and longer down-time.
your doctor if she expects you to have more than one
surgery session. You may need to have the plugs
removed in one session and allow that to heal before
going on to the next phase. Your doctor may not know
the answer to this until after she sees how your
first surgery has gone. In any case, it is wise to
go in expecting that you probably will need more
than one hair transplant surgery.
Getting a bad hair transplant result is difficult to
live with for years as many have done. The fact that
there are surgeries that can correct these problems
is music to their ears. It is hope they may have
never dreamed possible.
