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How Surgeons Hide Donor Scars during Hair Transplant Surgery
Hair transplant procedures leave
scars. It is just a fact of life. However, if the
surgeries are handled in the proper manner, the
scars are barely noticeable. They are thin to the
point that they can barely be seen in most cases.
Skilled doctors have ways of making the scars
practically disappear.
First of all, the surgeon must be very skilled in
choosing the site of the path where he harvests the
donor tissue for the hair transplant. Its width
should be no more than one centimeter in most
instances. This allows the scalp to close completely
when sutured back into place.
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If the hair transplant procedure is
done well, the scar will not be noticeable even if
the patient likes to wear his hair in a short style.
The scar will only become unsightly if the patient
is genetically predisposed to keloid scarring.
People who have this kind of problem need special
treatment.
If a patient is known to suffer from keloid
scarring, the first thing a reputable doctor will do
before hair transplant surgery is to explain the
possibility of unsightly scars. This requires a very
honest surgeon, since the patient may decide the
procedure is not worth the scarring it will cause.
The next step with such a patient would be to
discuss ways the keloid could be covered. It could
be camouflaged by wearing the hair just a little
longer. Other patients have rubbery skin that
stretches too much and so causes wide donor scars.
These two groups add up to about 5% of the patients
who have hair transplant surgery.
The other 95% of patients have no problems with
their tiny scars at all. The hair transplant doctors
are able to keep the donor strips very thin. They
also use a double layer closure method to help the
skin heal properly. As long as the surgeon knows
what she is doing, the scars are a minor
consideration.
Another aspect of scarring is when doctors go in for
multiple hair transplant surgeries. A new strip of
donor tissue has to be taken each time to supply the
grafts for the new transplant. It would seem that
this would lead to a large number of scars on the
back and sides of the head.
Actually, there is a hair transplant procedure that
keeps the scarring to one thin line. It consists of
cutting the new thin donor strip immediately above
the original scar. In most cases, the old scar is
removed at the same time. When the wound is stitched
up, the entire area of both the old scar and the new
cut are sewn into one line. If multiple surgeries
are done, this procedure is used every time.
Hair transplant surgery leaves scars. That much is
certain. If you are one of the unlucky few who scar
easily, you might have scars big enough that you
have to hide them. Yet, if you are like most people,
you will not have scars that anyone will notice at
all.
