Hair Grafting New York

 

 

 

 

A. The number of transplanted hair follicles performed during each surgery depends on the extent of hair loss.  The amount of hairs can range up to three to four thousand per surgery.  If repairing a slightly receding hairline on the frontal scalp of men, several hundred hairs can fully restore a hairline.  If someone has extensive hair loss, three to four thousand follicles may be performed during each procedure.

 

 

 

 

A.  The consistently natural appearing safe results obtained through follicular unit transplantation have made it the standard for transplantation.  The overwhelming majority of men and women with transplants are highly satisfied with the results.  The key challenge is to help maintain existing hair, as the natural hair around the transplant continues to thin.  This is why the majority of patients that we transplant use either Rogaine and/or Propecia to help maintain hair and the transplant to increase the density.  

 

 

 

 

A.  Occasionally, patients who report they like to wear their hair very shortly cropped or shaved in the posterior scalp  may become self conscious of the thin visible scar in the donor area.  For those patients, follicular unit extraction (FUE) is a recent advance that allows individual follicular groupings to be moved from the back of the scalp without leaving any visible scar.  Aesthetically the results are equal to the traditional ellipse donor harvesting, but for patients desiring to wear their hair very short in the back it has been highly satisfying.  

 

 

 

 

A.  Hair transplantation is not covered by insurance.  Payment options include check and credit cards.

 

 

 

 

A.  Hair transplantation is based on the theory of donor dominance, which states that hair, when transplanted from the back of the scalp in men and women and moved into the front of the scalp will maintain its existing genetic destiny and not be affected by the male or female pattern hair loss of the frontal scalp.  A good candidate for hair transplantation is any man or woman that has adequate donor density in the back of the scalp and who has enough hair loss on the frontal scalp that hair can be transplanted in a distribution that will appear natural one year and twenty years after the surgery.  Factors such as the donor density and caliber (thickness) of each individual’s hair follicle will help establish the expected appearance of density from the surgery.  All patients before undergoing a transplant should have a detailed consultation with a physician to determine whether or not they are a candidate for transplant and if they are what realistic expectations a patient can hope to obtain from a procedure.The procedure is performed as an outpatient under local anesthesia and typically takes three to four hours to perform.  The surgery involves removing a thin strip of hair from the posterior scalp in order to obtain the individual follicles that will be transplanted to the frontal scalp.  The hair is removed from the back under local anesthesia.  Once removed from the back of the scalp, the hair follicles are divided into individual follicular groupings.  The frontal part of the scalp is then anesthetized with local anesthesia .The recipient sites are created using a small needle making hundreds or thousands of incisions made across the frontal scalp. The hair transplant team then carefully places each one into the recipient site during the procedure.  The patient is able to watch movies, talk to the surgical team, go to the bathroom, listen to music, or simply relax. After the procedure is done patients go home, have lunch, and are able to resume normal activities immediately with the only restriction being not to perform heavy exercise for three to four days. The transplanted hair begins to grow six to eight months after the procedure and continues to grow long term.