Hair Transplant Blog

My Doctor told me that other techniques could be used: the scalp reduction and the rags. I thought that these techniques were obsolete and disused.

Indeed, both techniques are less and less used. The scalp reduction consists of surgically removing the tonsure or the bald area. The scalp is then stretched to cover the bald spot. The surgery lasts about one hour and gives immediate results. It calls up hair from lateral areas. Moreover, it is quite painful and this surgery leaves a central scar which is visible and the scar can widen in the long term. The orientation of the displaced hair often looks artificial.  For more details, you can have a look on this web page.

Rags. This is another obsolete technique. It consists of displacing large areas of the scalp. The orientation of the hair transplanted does not give a natural effect. This technique could be useful during reconstructive surgery, for example after an accident.

These technique cannot be qualified as surgeries against balding, even more when they are used to redefine the front line as the final result is not natural.

…I have had a bad hair transplant, three times! My front line is too straight, the grafts are too big and I have the impression that people only look at my forehead when they meet me…

Unfortunately, although nowadays hair transplant techniques prooved to be ready, some doctors still do not take enough care nor enough time in making the surgeries. There are two techniques to correct a bad hair transplant on the front part. You can either take off most of, or all, the bad grafts thanks to the use of micro punches, like the one used for the FUE technique,  or you have to implants new grafts between the huge ones in order to hide the non natural aspect.