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?
Generally repair cases are caused by multiple poor procedures and it must be understood that it is unlikely to repair all aspects of the problem in one procedure. Repair cases relate to both donor and recipient site and it is not always possible to tackle both areas fully at the same time.
Repair procedures have many more problems than virgin scalp cases, the scalp may have suffered trauma, pitting, scarring and cobblestoning; this may impair the yield for the next procedure; and this must be recognised. Donor scarring causes the donor area to be limited but also the physical scarring has to be addressed; either removing or hiding if possible. More radical techniques of hair transplanting may be required to successfully treat a repair; removal of old grafts, re-designing hair lines and scar revision.
Various techniques can be used to repair; FUE to remove old plug grafts, maybe positioned incorrectly or angulation problems; in more exstreme case maybe minor strip removal with sutures are better suited.
Revision of the donor area can depend of scar placement and style, old punch grafts are often spread over the entire donor area and strip scars can be in bad positions and wide, as well as being deeply filled by fibrosis. Importantly each case has to be treated on it's merits and there is no hard and fast right or wrong; openness and honesty between doctor and patient are so important.
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Deciding to have a hair transplant is hard anyway without having to then need a previous procedure repaired. It is not just the physical scars that are left but also the mental ones, mistrust, doubts and concerns; let alone the fact the donor area has been compromised and is now more limited.
