Hair Transplant Surgery

Hair Transplant Surgery can often be the only solution, other than to wear a wig, when all other attempts to reverse hair-loss have failed.

Hair Transplant Surgery works by removing the hair from areas where the hair grows thicker, and where the hair won't be missed, and grafting it to the area with thinning hair.

While predominantly performed on middle-aged males, it is sometimes performed on women suffering from baldness or thinning hair. Hair Loss can have a devastating impact on the self-confidence of some men suffering from male-pattern baldness, while for women with thinning hair, the impact upon them is even more pronounced. For these people, a hair transplant can be a very effective solution!

It used to be the case that hair transplantation was prohibitively expensive for most people, but the costs seem to have dropped a little in recent years, as the technology to perform hair grafting has improved. It is also true that there are many countries in the world that are likely to offer cheaper hair transplant surgery without skimping on the quality of hair restoration.

Going abroad is becoming an increasingly viable option to reduce the costs for hair grafting. Especially popular choices overseas for a more affordable hair transplant for US residents are Argentina and the Dominican Republic, while many UK and EU citizens travel abroad to the Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Hungary or Turkey to get the best price for their hair graft. India is also an extremely popular destination for hair restoration treatment, with excellent facilities for a much lower cost.

Find which country can offer you the best prices for Hair Transplant Surgery here.

FAQs

Who Can Benefit From a Hair Transplant?

What Does Hair Grafting Involve?

What are the Risks to Consider?

What Results Can I Expect?

How Long is Recovery After Hair Transplant Surgery?

How Much Does it Cost For Good Quality Hair Restoration?

Who Can Benefit From a Hair Transplant?

If you have thinning hair, and it doesn't seem to be reversible using other methods, then you may be a good candidate for hair transplant surgery! However, the effectiveness is determined by how far hair loss has progressed. The earlier on that restoration is performed, the better the results, and once baldness has reached a certain point satisfactory results become increasingly unlikely.

What Does Hair Grafting Involve?

The procedure is performed under a local anaesthetic. Hair follicles are transferred from areas where the hair grows more thickly, to the areas of the scalp that are suffering from hair loss. Hair Grafting is a very involved and painstaking operation, performed at a microscopic level, a few hairs at a time, and can take several hours and more than one session to complete the hair restoration process.

After the hair transplant surgery is completed, you will have normal, "living" hair, in the previously bald or thinning are, that will grow normally, just as you would hope. The area that donated the transplanted hair will then be closed up with dissolvable stitches.

A more advanced (and more expensive!) method is Follicular Unit Extraction or F.U.E.

Where traditional hair restoration techniques leave a strip scar in the donor area, the F.U.E techniques avoids this problem by plucking out individual hair follicles.

What are the Risks to Consider?

The risks involved with getting hair transplant surgery are in fact extremely low indeed! However, as with all surgical procedures, there is still a small risk attached. The main risks are an infection of the areas that have been operated on.

Also, the use of anaesthetic is never entirely without danger, although much less so with a local anaesthetic. Of course, your hair transplant surgeon can be expected to discuss all the risks with you before the hair restoration procedure!

What Results Can I Expect?

The results will not be immediately apparent, as the hair will take a few months to grow. However, within a four to six months, most people who opt for hair restoration are delighted with the results. It should be mentioned that there is a very small chance that the hair graft will not take root in the new area. This was once much more common, so there is still something of an unfounded myth that hair transplantation often doesn't work. The main thing, then is to be patient after your hair transplant surgery, as it generally has a very high level of success.

It used to be that people who had received a hair transplant were quite easy to spot, as the hair had a "pluggy" appearance that is unacceptable by modern standards. This is no longer the case, and modern results are excellent. The incisions made for the donated hair are made at carefully worked-out angles, so the way your new hair grows matches the way it would grow in nature.

In short, modern techniques mean that if hair restoration surgery is undergone soon enough after the onset of hair loss, the result should be almost indistinguishable from a "normal" full head of hair!

How Long Will it Take to Recover?

Unlike most forms of cosmetic surgery, with a hair transplant you could really go straight back to work after the operation, although you will be sore. Most people do, however, choose to take a little time off to let the signs of their hair transplant surgery fade a little.

How Much Does it Cost For Good Quality Hair Restoration?

Hair Transplant costs depend on a number of factors. Whether restoration is performed by the F.U.E method or the F.U.T. strip method impacts both the skill required and the time taken to perform the operation, and prices also depend on where you get it done.

Naturally, it also depends on the extent of restoration needed!

There is no such thing as a cheap hair transplant, as it is a very skilled and specialised profession. However, it is possible still to make some quite considerable savings on hair restoration if you shop around for the best price, and are prepared to travel abroad!

For instance an starting price in the UK will be in the area of £3,000 to £5,000. Clinics in countries such as India, Turkey, Mexico, Costa Rica, Poland and South Korea will be able to halve the costs for you. For US residents, prices can be as little as one-fifth of the price they could expect to pay at home...

It is important to be aware that the lower prices you will be paying are not based on a lower level of skill of your surgeon, or care on the part of your clinic.

The lower prices are due to the local economy, and you can be sure that the prices charged for hair transplantation will be just as out of reach for the local people as they are for the majority of people living in rich countries who overlook the possibility of getting treatment abroad.