Medical Hair Restoration

Restoration of this type does not depend on the use of hair restoration products. It involves replacement surgery. Such surgery provides those with bare spots on their scalp the only way to obtain a permanent replacement for lost hair.

Medical hair restoration can not always promise the creation of new hairs on a man’s scalp. For some men, the products approved by the FDA do offer a way to achieve hair restoration. Unfortunately any new hair growth brought-on by use of those FDA approved products is not of a permanent nature. Only medical hair restoration can give a man a permanent head of hair.

Medical hair restoration involves the re-distribution of a man’s hair. A man who wants to undergo medical hair restoration should have sections of his scalp where there is thick hair growth. For most men, those sections are on the sides of the head, or the back of the scalp.

If a man has agreed to undergo hair restoration medically, he should understand the series of steps that are part of a complete hair restoration. The first step involves preparation of the scalp. The scalp must be thoroughly cleaned. Only in that way can an aseptic restoration be performed.

Following the cleaning of the scalp, small needles are used to anesthetize two different sections of the scalp—one section with thick hair and one section without any hair. Next, a section of hair and scalp is removed from the area with thick hair.

At that point a group of technicians receives the removed hair and scalp. One of those technicians then dissects out from the scalp individual hairs. That dissection needs to be done under a microscope. A single blade knife should be used to cut out each of the hairs.

While the technician dissects out the individual hairs, the patient must feel another series of needles. Those needles prepare a new section of the patient’s scalp, one into which the new hair will be transplanted. A medical hair restoration is complete when each section of bare scalp has received a set of transplanted hairs. A patient might need to make a series of visits to the same office, in order to receive a complete treatment.

What type of hair loss makes a man a good candidate for medical hair restoration? A patient with lupus, and resulting hair loss, or with a head injury might want such a restoration.