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Is Hair Transplant Painful?
Many people who think about having hair transplant
surgery wonder if the procedure is painful. Often
people have sensitive scalps and the thought of
someone making cuts there seems hard to think about
for these people. There is disagreement as to
whether hair transplant surgery is painful, though.
Some say that hair transplant surgery is similar to
a visit to the dentist. This does not seem like a
description of something that is pain-free. It
certainly does not seem like a relaxing experience.
Yet some feel that there is that degree of pain
involved.
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The injections of the local anesthetic into
the scalp before hair transplant procedures
are definitely painful to some degree.
Anyone who has had a tooth pulled knows
that, if the tooth is deadened properly, it
is not the tooth-pulling that hurts. It is
the needle going in with medication to numb
the tooth that is the real agony.
Of course, to follow the dental analogy,
after the numbing wears off there is plenty
of pain where the tooth was before. With
hair transplant surgery, there is pain after
the surgery as well. Swelling is normal
after hair transplant surgery and can even
keep you away from work. Your skull may feel
very unusual for weeks.
However, the pain of hair transplant
cannot actually be compared to a tooth
extraction. Hair transplant
pain is decidedly less sharp and some do not even
feel it as pain at all. Many people simply feel it
as an uncomfortable feeling. If they do feel any
pain, it is of a degree that can be taken care of
with a few doses of Tylenol.
On the other hand, some people who have had hair
transplant procedures done do not feel that there is
any pain involved at all. They tolerate the
injections of the local anesthetic well. They are
not bothered at all by the procedure. In fact they
often watch television or read magazines, being
awake and alert the whole time.
Hair transplant surgery is surely less painful than
it was in earlier times when larger sections of
scalp were excised. This involved more cutting to
take out the donor hair and more cutting to insert
the donor hair into the recipient site.
Hair transplant surgery was a very painful procedure
in the past. Not all doctors today have given up on
older methods. This is one reason why you should ask
a lot of questions when you look for a hair
transplant surgeon.
to-date techniques for hair transplant use only the
follicular unit and not a large amount of
surrounding tissue for the donor grafts. This cuts
down considerably on the amount of pain experienced.
The procedure is minimally invasive now, so that no
more of the scalp is disturbed than is necessary.
Finally, having a hair transplant with an
experienced and skilled surgeon is an important key
to having a less painful surgery. A doctor who knows
the best way to do the procedure will cause you less
pain an produce a better result for you into the
bargain.
