How to Reverse Hair Loss From Burns?

Burn accidents are a traumatic experience that leaves victims in a distressing emotional phase for months or even years after. Victims lose a lot in a burn accident, particularly second and third-degree burns, where tissue damage often occurs. Hair loss, scars, and underlying tendons and muscles can all be damaged in the event of injuries. If you are a victim of burns who recovered emotionally and is working on reversing the damage, read along to learn how you can restore your hair.

However, before we presume, we would like to clarify that we are not perpetuating the stigma against scars or hair loss from accidents. On the contrary, this article aims to help those seeking ways to reverse the damage.

How burns cause hair loss

Second and third-degree burns penetrate the outer layer of the skin and extend to follicular units, muscles, tendons, and even bones. Every human is born with a particular set of follicular units that continue to initiate growth throughout one’s life. However, they do not self-regenerate. In other words, once damaged the damage is permanent.

Burns of the second degree and higher can damage follicular units turning them to scabs. Since there are no functioning follicular units in the area, serums or pills cannot trigger growth. Eliminating non-surgical methods, the only method through which victims can restore the hair in an area of the body is through hair transplants.

How hair transplants work

There are two primary hair transplant techniques FUE and FUT. FUT or follicular hair transplantation is the older of the two and is inconvenient as it leaves a linear scar and causes nerve damage in the scalp that may or may not be permanent. FUE or follicular unit extraction, on the other hand, does not leave scars or poses nerve damage.

On the contrary, with FUE, surgeons can individually extract follicular units and relocate them to areas of hair growth. To avoid scarring, FUE utilizes a punch that first isolates follicular units through creating a circular incision slightly bigger in size than follicular units. Later, with forceps surgeons can pull the follicular unit out and implant it in areas of hair loss. Upon relocation, follicular units continue to initiate hair growth in the area. The results are natural looking and most importantly permanent.

In addition, FUE can restore hair growth in the eyebrows, body, and face. With areas like eyebrows and beard, the hair extracted is similar in structure to the hair in those areas. Also, since FUE leaves no scars the results look very natural in those areas as well.

In closing

The trauma left behind by burn accidents is not one that non-victims can fathom. Burn victims suffer a lot emotionally for months or even years after the event. If you are burn victim looking to reverse hair loss from the accident, the only effective method is hair restoration that you can find it at vera clinic . Since the injury will have most likely permanently damaged your follicular units, serums or meds cannot restore them.

Hair transplants can restore hair growth in the area by extracting viable follicular units form areas of hair growth and locating them in areas of hair loss. Contact us if you have any enquiries regarding hair transplants.