Hair Transplants

A man who receives a transplant undergoes a surgical procedure. That procedure does not take place in a hospital operating room. It is normally performed in the office of a hair transplant specialist. It is also known as medical restoration of hair.

The selection of a specialist should not proceed in a hasty and haphazard manner. The selection of such a specialist should follow a careful examination of what a number of different specialists have to offer. The man in need of a hair transplant should seek out an experienced specialist. Consultations should often also be done with a Dermatologist who can assess the quality and condition of the scalp.

Before deciding on a specialist, a man should ask to see some before and after photos, photos taken of the specialist’s former patients. A prospective patient searching to receieve transplanted hair should not feel satisfied with a look at only three or four sets of photos. He should request a chance to view a minimum of 20 photos (at least 10 sets).

If the man looking for a hair restoration specialist feels confident that the photos demonstrate competence, he should still not agree to the procedure. He needs further confirmation that the specialist who he has in mind has enough skills to satisfy a licensed physician. Some specialists do hair transplants on the heads of physicians who are going bald.

If consultations show that the specialist has indeed done two or more transplants for licensed health professionals (doctors or dentists), that specialist appears worthy of consideration. Still a hair transplant requires more than one set of hands. Hair removed by the specialist must be dissected out of the removed section of scalp. That dissection is usually done by a technician.

A man who has found a competent hair transplant specialist should ask to know more about his or her technicians. How long have they been performing the dissection procedure? What tools do they use? Do they work under the lens of a microscope? Do they carry-out the dissection using a single-blade knife?

If a man is satisfied with the answers to the above questions, then he should arrange to meet with the specialist. That first meeting should not be the time when the specialist does the actual transplantation. A professional hair transplant specialist should behave professionally. He or she should not have a medical consultant meet, in the absence of the specialist, with the patient, before the scheduling of a time for the actual transplant.

If the specialist expects a prospective patient to feel satisfied with such a meeting, the man should search for a different hair transplant specialist.