Hair Transplant Blog

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…

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.

Good morning Doctor, is it true that the use of the microscope can improve the hair transplant, and the quality of the grafts? I am reading many dissimilar opinions on the internet and I do not see which are the advantages…

In my opinion, the use of the microscope is essential for the cutting of the grafts. Thanks to it, it is possible to avoid the transections (bad cutting of the hair which stops the regrow of the hair). It allows to cut and to sculpt the grafts making the thin ring of skin on the top as little as possible. It permits also to protect the telogen hair (the resting phase of the fu) which are shorter and transparents. For white hair, the microscope is incontrovertible. With the use of the microscope the transection rate is around 1%, while 10 to 40% of the hair are destryed during the naked eye cutting.