Hair Transplant Blog

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.

I have read that the doctors use different kind of tools to make the recepient sites for the grafts. How does it work? How can it have an influence on the results of the hair transplant?

These tools can be classified in two categories: sharp medical instruments, or needles. As far as I am concerned, I decided to adopt Dr Hasson and Dr Wong’s system of little pieces of custom-made rasor blades cutted using a mini-shear. The advantage are that you can adjust them and they are very sharp. Moreover, they can be cutted on beveled edge and this helps to limit at lot the agression of the deep parts of the skin. I usually use three different sizes in order to make a very precise work throught the existant hair. I do not use needles because they cannot give me the opportunity to limit the depth of the recepient sites. Furthermore, they lacerate the skin tissues particularly when they are used to make hundreds of recepient sites (they can be used once). I believe that the quality of the tools can influence the result of the transplant: for the quality of the regrow and to make the surgery undetectable.