What should be considered in hair transplantation?

• The patient’s age, careful family history, and physical examination are important factors in making this assessment.
• It is not necessary to wait for the area to become completely bald before hair transplantation; It is not advantageous either.
• The existing hair of a person with relatively early androgenetic alopecia provides better camouflage after the operation.
• If a second operation is required, it ensures a longer time between operations.
• All planning should be done according to the correct determination of the final state of androgenetic alopecia and the size and characteristics of the donor area.
• Planting on hair-bearing areas does not accelerate hair loss.
• Having hair in the area requires more attention. The incisions made to open channels should be in the same direction and angle with the existing hair in the area.
• In addition, very effective medical treatments are used to protect the existing hair of the person.
• When these treatments give successful results, it will not be possible for the person to lose their existing hair and undergo a second operation.
• There is no strict rule on the correct age for the procedure. However, it is not very suitable for the procedure before the age of 20 and after the age of 80.
• Due to the developments in the last 10 years, women have become acceptable candidates for hair transplantation. Women have now reached a higher rate of hair transplant patients.

In hair transplantation, the result is not only the way of shedding; It also depends on factors such as the color of the hair, the thickness of the wire, and the structure of the wire.

The less the contrast between the color of the hair and the color of the underlying skin, the less noticeable the sparseness of the hair and the more successful the hair transplant will be.

In this respect, the luckiest patients are those whose hair colors are yellow, white and gray, respectively. As a rule; yellow-white-gray hair is seen more frequently than dark hair, with less density.

More graft transplantation is required in patients with brown and black hair. Thick strands of hair cover more areas. People with hair thickness around 80 microns are more fortunate than those with thin hair.

An increase of 0.01 mm in bristle diameter provides a shocking 36% increase in bristle volume. As a rule; More intensive transplantation is required for fine hair.

In addition, since wavy-curly hair looks fuller and voluminous, it provides more advantages in hair transplantation than those with straight hair. As a rule; Wavy-curly hair appears more often than straight hair with less density.

Hair transplantation operations are not only applied in androgenetic alopecia.

It is also successfully applied in hair loss that leaves scars such as burns, wounds, and post-infection scars, and in alopecia areata (pelad – hair breaker) disease.

In addition to the scalp, transplantation operations can also be performed on the beard and eyebrow skin.