Pros and Cons About Hair Transplant

Hair which is the most important factor of one’s personality and self esteem, could be a serious issue when starts getting vanish. Loss of hair causes due to some genetic, physiological and hormonal changes. Mostly men endure hair loss compared to women. 50% of men from age 50 suffer from baldness and from the age of 70 the percentage increases to 805 approximately. A bald look could seriously affect a person’s personality, image and self esteem. Many people try medications, oils, home remedies, herbal treatments but due to failures they go for hair transplantation which is little bit expensive and has some of its own pros and cons that should be known to everyone before going for hair transplant.

What is Hair Transplantation?

Hair transplantation is a surgical procedure which involves moving skin with hair follicles from one part of the body to the balding area (head).  Primarily the treatment is used as a treatment for male pattern baldness, but it can also be done to restore eye lashes, beard hair, eye brows or to fill in less hair areas.  This procedure is generally performed on an outpatient under mild sedation.  The person is given a topical anesthesia which approximately lasts for 3-4 hours; the scalp is being shampooed and then treated with an antimicrobial solution prior the hair transplant. 

Pros.

• The operation is quite safe in the sense you need not be brought under complete anesthesia if in case you have manias and phobias about losing consciousness, the procedure can be operated by means of partial anesthesia. While the issues of pain may be aptly addressed by localized sedation, you need not have to be anxious about total lapse of consciousness.

• Another scientific advantage of hair transplantation is its uniformity of distribution. The technique is managed upon with optimization in such a way that the overall follicular distribution remains intact.

• You will have the opportunity to multiply your hair by increasing the hair density. There is no need of chemical treatments as once the hair transplant surgery is completed and the healing process is over the hair will start growing naturally.

• Hair transplantation surgery is a one-time process if you are interested in multiple hair transplants. The surgery is quite expensive but has a long-term benefit that you won’t have to adhere to certain hair system for the rest of your life.

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Cons.

• The transplantation might not be successful, as there is no guarantee how the surgery would react to the patient as reactions are unique to every patient. Despite of so many advantages there are some people who don’t get the desired result.

• The surgery is quite expensive as it requires upfront fees according to the procedure and has 10% chances of getting failed as due to injury and exposure to certain medications, graft planted may not be successful, resulting in the wastage of both time & money.

• Another disadvantage of hair transplant is that often sizable proportion of the dermis has to be extracted for the purpose of implantation and the scalp provides protection to the follicle from trauma. Hence follicles become more pregnable in cases where a sizable portion is removed.

• Certain risks/side effects are also associated with this procedure which occurs during healing process such as infection, numbness, bleeding, pain, itching, swelling and cysts etc. During the surgery in cases which involves thick packing leads to scarring and injuries.

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