FUE "Follicular Unit Extraction", Strip Surgery, Trico Closure, Coverage, Hair Density, Donor Area ............. Where do you start?
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Educate yourself to the principles of a hair transplant before you have a hair transplant.
A hair transplant is the placement of hair from one area of the scalp to another area. Because of genetics it will not suffer from Male Pattern Baldness...............
Does this mean it is suitable for everyone?
The front hairline is generally considered to be the most important aspect of the entire head of hair. This is because it frames the face, and will change the appearance most dramitically.
Hairline planning can be a compromise between the patient and the surgeon. On occassions people have a tendency to want the hairline too high or too low. The low rounded adolescent hairline will look fine on a younger man but not match the age and facial features of an older man.
The younger man still has vivid memories of his hair line and generally wants to create the same appearance; whereas the middle-aged man may fear that a hairline that is not adequately receded at the temples may seem unnaturally low for his age.
It also has to be understand that hair line placement, density and thickness can vary from ethnic origin and genetic background. It is not always advisable to just follow a trend in hair line but best to mimic nature and your pre exisiting make up. Temple point recreation and the flat look hair line are becoming more common, but it must be within the boundaries of nature. The apex is always the lowest aspect of the hair line and all measurements must take this in to consideration, as well as facial bone structure.
When designing a hair line for a man with minimal receding it has to be understood the priciples of the hair transplant; the amount of FU required and the density that looks natural.
Follicular units placement in the very front zone will be made of one hair follicular units and then further back two, three and four hair follicular units. The single hair units are placed closer together to mimic nature and provide a natural progressive increase in density, rather than a flat, straight block, or wall of hair. If the desired look is to have a thick, almost no gradient in density then the number of grafts will have to be that much more and the potential for poorer growth must be understood.
It is unlikely placing like for like density when the man had a full head of hair is possible; the effects of trying to reach the same density can result in trauma to the skin and a poor yield from the placed grafts; or by placing two hair units in the frontal line will create the thickness of the adolcent hair line but look "pluggy" at closer inspection.
Therefore some of the art is to give the cosmetic effect that the density is the same, this is most obvious when the hair is longer because it blocks the reflection of light on to the scalp. But when the hair is short or shaved this effect is less because there is no apparent density; although this is obviously not true.
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