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How Hair Is Inserted in Hair Transplant Surgery?
Hair transplant surgery begins, after anesthesia is applied, with removing donor tissue. Follicular units are then extracted from the tissue using a stereomicroscope. This is all done by skilled nurses and technicians. The insertion of the hair into the receptor sites comes later.
Once the follicular units for the hair transplant are dissected out of the donor tissue, technicians set them aside in a saline solution. The temperature must be ideal or the small grafts will not survive the procedure. This is done very carefully in order to ensure a good result.
The surgeon will make tiny incisions into the scalp where the hair transplant grafts are to go. These are called the receptor sites. They are made with a very thin surgical needle. The surgeon must have an eye for detail to properly set the receptor sites. He must also be very artistic to achieve a natural look, especially at the hairline.
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The direction the hair grows, both on the front of
the head and at the crown, are very important, too.
The doctor must make the condition of the newly
placed hair look like the patient's own natural
scalp hair. The angle that the hair is put in
determines how much it will stand up from the head.
Once the surgeon has made all the hair transplant
incisions that lay out the design he has created,
the specially trained surgical team steps in. They
use his plan to accomplish his goals, and in turn
the goals of the patient. The groundwork is done for
them by the surgeon when he does his incisions.
The surgical team takes care to get every hair
transplant graft into the receptor sites as they
have been laid out. They waste no time, though,
because the small grafts are vulnerable when their
follicles are outside of the skin. The goal is to
get the grafts in as quickly as possible while
staying true to the design.
Next, the doctor looks over the hair transplant for
quality control. He may take a good deal of time
tweaking the placement of grafts before he is
satisfied that they are all set properly into their
receptor sites in a pleasing fashion. When he gives
the ok, the surgical technicians again take over the
patient's care.
The grafts will be more permanently set into place
when the technicians dry them by blowing a cool blow
dryer across them. This makes them adhere in their
place so that no bandages are necessary. The patient
will be asked to bring, or will be given, a baseball
cap for the ride home from the hair transplant
procedure.
The doctor will want to see how the grafts are doing
the day following the hair transplant. The patient
will go in for a check-up so that any problems can
be corrected quickly. If that is not possible, at
least plans can be made to correct them at a future
time.
The doctor will have done his job with the hair
transplant procedure at this point. All that remains
is periodic checkups. If the hair loss is extensive,
there may be more procedures, but all the hair
transplant surgeries will be done with the same
amount of care.
