Are you a right candidate for hair transplant? Do you suffer from male pattern baldness and wonder if Hair transplant is for you?
These are the following factors which will help you decide if you are fit for hair transplant.
Age
If you are above the age above 24 years and suffering from male pattern baldness, hair transplant can be the choice of treatment for you. The rate & eventual severity of hair loss are less predictable in individuals below 24 years. Hair loss has not stabilized & further hair loss might happen in recipient area. This reduces the perceived density after hair transplant.
Degree of hair loss.
There is a classification of Androgenic alopecia. Ideally patients from stage 1 to 5 are very good candidates for hair transplant. They get a greater number of hair grafts from the donor area. The more severe hair loss there is more hair grafts are needed. This can cause thinning of donor area or the need for secondary donor area sites.
Donor area
This must be the area which is immune to future hair loss. These hairs are resistant to action of di-hydrotestosterone. These are non-hormone dependent. These don’t undergo hair loss. This a horseshoe shaped along the back and sides of the scalp. Prior scars in their area, infection, keloids, should be checked. A person who has undergone previous surgery would have fibrosis. He would have low survival rate of grafts .
Donor density
The density is calculated according to the no of follicle units/sq.cm. An Ideal candidate has 70-90 follicular units/ sq. cm. A patient with less than 40 units/ Sq. cm has poor donor density
Hair caliber
An individual with thick curly hair will have better result than someone with thin wispy hair with the same no of grafts. A person with thick curly hair will benefit 50-100% more after transplant with denser hair than patient with fine straight hair. Thick hair is more than 70 microns in diameter. These patients will need lesser grafts.
Reasonable expectations
The hair transplant should look natural; the front line should be irregularly irregular. Patient might desire an enhanced hairline, reinforcement of frontal scalp or thickening of vertex. The grafts needed for these are more and might exceed the number of grafts which can be taken from the back of the scalp- the primary donor area. Sometimes the most cosmetic improvement is enhancing the hair that frames the face by reinforcing fronto-temporal area and the frontal area. Many times, the demand for the grafts are more and this might be met with harvesting from the secondary areas like beard and chest.
Ongoing hair loss
It is very important to control the ongoing hair loss with medical help. They also help in increasing the thickness of present vellus fine hair. This enhances the thickness and density of the recipient area. The net density one achieves after the hair transplant is equal to no. of transplanted hair minus any ongoing hair loss. So perceived hair growth is more in patients who have controlled hair loss.
The best way to judge is to get a consultation, where the surgeon will thoroughly examine you and help to plan the hair transplant surgery. Call 9663157479 where Dr Aditi Garg and her team of hair transplant specialists will guide you further.
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