Hair Transplant: Pros and Cons

Skin Specialist
Jul 26, 2017 · 2 min read

Hair loss can affect anyone at any age, no matter what gender or race they belong to and leaves the person prone to nervousness, anxiety and depression. A very serious condition, this disease affects physically and mentally as well, as the patients develop anxiety, nervousness and depression due to lack of self-confidence and self-esteem. Doctors from the best hair clinic in Delhi suggest hair transplant is an effective way to cure hair loss. Hair transplant helps in curing hair loss caused by male patterned baldness, thinning in the case of women and scalp injuries. Many hair clinics in Delhi offer such treatments, but one has to consider many aspects before choosing the right clinic. A patient should take proper consultation from experts before opting hair transplant. Here are the pros and cons of hair transplant to help understand the procedure better:

Pros

1. Serving as a sign of relief to the patients with hair loss, hair transplant serves long enough and offers long term results. Although the procedure takes a while to complete, once done, there is no need for repeating the surgery. Furthermore, this treatment is cost-effective and value for money at the same time.

2. Hair transplantation is the relocation of patient’s natural hair from the donor site to the bald patches or thinning sites. While these transplanted hair are natural, they function in a completely natural way and hair follicle act to regrow hair, within six months of the procedure.

Cons

1. Just like any other type of surgery, hair transplant surgery can also have complications and side effects. These may include infection id the hair follicles, scalp swelling, shock loss (loss of transplanted hair), numbness and itching in the scalp. Furthermore, there are cases in which the transplanted hair look unnatural.

2. While the treatment includes transplant of follicles onto the graft site, some of these follicles do not grow back. This results in the formation of bumps on the graft site and the patients may also develop scars, which are known as stretch back scars. These scars are the result of tension produced by the process of reduction of scalp for hair transplantation.

The surgical transplantation of hair is an elective process that works on the harvesting of hair from the donor site and planting them onto the graft site, the bald spots and thinning portions of the head. This treatment is ideally recommended for male patterned baldness and women with thinning hair. A patient must consult experts before undergoing such procedure and follow the advice.

Skin Specialist
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