Hair Transplantation - Advantages & Disadvantages

For many reasons, not everyone is blessed with thick and lustrous hair. Irrelevant of gender, hair type and status one can succumb to baldness. Baldness can be a threatening situation and deter someone’s confidence. One solution to reverse baldness is to opt for hair transplantation. But it’s always advised that one knows in and out of the procedure. Let’s read in detail below.

Hair Trasplantation Advantages & Disadvantage

What is the procedure?

• It is a surgical process in which the hair follicle is put on to areas of partial and complete hair loss.
• The hair is taken from the back of the head and added on to areas of baldness.
• It works well in treating baldness that is caused by factors that are hereditary.
• It is done with almost no use of sedation and it has 2 techniques
1. Strip harvesting
2. Follicular unit extraction

Advantages of hair transplantation

• Since it is a medically treated technique there is no need of any other form of hair growth. The hair implanted will continue its growth.
• Since you yourself are the donor it is a big advantage.
• It gets done in a single go.
• Usually no money or very little money is considered as consultation fee, so keeping in mind the fact that it’s not expensive is a big relief.
• Hair transplantation is very effective than any other artificial treatment.
• In case one is sensitive to losing consciousness the process can be managed by partial anesthesia.
• Another big advantage is that hair transplantation provides uniformity in hair distribution. The technique works on optimization for overall distribution of follicles and it remains intact.

Disadvantages of hair transplantation

• This is a physiological disadvantage, one should always remember that a sizeable portion of the dermis is extracted or implantation purposes. The scalp gives protection to the follicle from any kind of trauma and so the follicles tend to become more susceptible to cases where a good portion is removed.
• In case of dense packing then it leads to be more expensive and consumes plenty of time along with more number of sessions.
• Cases involving thick packing can lead to scarring and injuries.
• In case of thick packing, can lead to injuries and scarring.
• Because of exposure to many medicines and injury a graft planted will not survive and it results in wastage of money and time.

Cost factors of hair transplantation

• Hair transplantation becomes a costly affair with the number of grafts made.
• Factors like hair loss stage, donor hair availability and levels of expectation determine the cost.
• Price needs to be paid for the repair surgery too.
• Recently the trend is that many clinics offer free cost of advice for consultation of hair transplantation.
• Though cost factors are involved, its longevity and restoration’s look can be worth every penny spent.