What kind of incisions for a hair transplant?
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
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.
