Hair Transplant Blog

About your hair clinic. I have heard that some doctors use to work in clinics which are not in very good conditions for a hair transplant. Could you give me some information about your hair clinic?

In order to realise a good hair transplant you must have a good team, a good technique and also a good clinic. Both the consultations and the surgeries take place in this clinic: clinique capillaire Grand Roi in Brussels, Belgium. I welcome the patients for the consultations and I realise the surgeries in a operating room which respacts the European rules, iso 2000. The air is purified by a system of spray, oxygen is available, the sterilisation room is separated… It is very important to provide comfort to a patient during the whole surgery so the armchair can be adjusted to change the position very often. For the patients living in another country, we arrange the accommodation in a very comfortable hôtel only 10 min far from our clinic.
For more information, have a look on our web site.

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I’m 22 years old, and I started losing my hair when I was 16. My skull is almost bald. Somebody told me that it is not recommended to have a hair transplant when you are too young. What is your opinion about it?

What matters the most is not the age but the stage of baldness reached. Obviously, it is important to be very careful and reserved when a young person, with a little baldness, wants a hair transplant. If you do not understand precisely the causes of the hair loss, it is better to wait and postpone the surgery. Moreover, some medical treatments like minoxidil and finasteride are often very efficient at that age but if the baldness reached an important stage, it is possible to make a hair transplant before the recommended age, which is 25 years old. It would be best to see a good doctor, who will analyse your case and recommend you a therapeutic solution.

Are the transplanted grafts permanents or will they be influenced by their environement? Do you think that baldness process will touch the grafts too?

All transplanted hair will keep their genetic characteristics. They are resistant to male hormones effects, in opposition to the original hair, and they will keep this peculiarity. That is why it is always recommended to make a quality hair transplant even if at the beginning the hair grafted are hidden by the hair existing. In fact, when those hair fall, only the transplanted hair will remain…

People often say that hair transplant is sometimes painful. I have read on your web site that it is almost painless. Can you tell me more about the pain, during and after the surgery?

Local anaesthesia is administered for the surgery, and when it is done properly the surgery is practically painless. Here is how it works: it is important to go on very progressively and to deliver stings only on already anaesthetised zones. So the placement of the grafts in that zones is totally painless. It is remarkable to notice how the donour area, which receives between 2000 and 3000 incisions, is completely painless on the day after the surgery. On the day after, only the donour area, where the strip was removed, could be a little bit painful.