Many people suffering from male or female pattern baldness are out there researching their hair restoration options. Over 40 million American men suffer from male pattern baldness, and right now there’s no cure for the genetic condition.
So far, the hair transplant is the only permanent method to treat baldness in both men and women.
It’s obvious that hair restoration is sought out so people can gain back their desired appearance and some confidence that goes along with it. That said, many patients are held back from hair restoration surgeries because they’re worried the procedure will end up looking unnatural.
Nobody wants to face a surgical procedure and end up looking worse than they did before undergoing it. But new developments in microsurgery applied to the hair transplant, surgical hair restoration can look more natural than ever.
Two big reasons hair transplants of the past didn’t look natural had to do with scaring and difficulties obtaining enough donor follicles for transplant. Years ago, 4mm plugs were used as transplant grafts, leaving a doll head look to patients that looked thin and detectable.
Even as this procedure developed to FUT, or follicle unit transplantation that implants individual follicles to the scalp, scarring was still very present on the back and sides of patients’ heads.
That’s because they obtained donor follicles by skin strip harvesting—cutting strips of skin from the head and dissecting them into individual follicles.
Today, it’s unnecessary to cut skin at all. FUE, or follicle unit extraction, incorporates the latest in microsurgical techniques by removing each follicle individually for transfer. No skin needs to be cut, no scalpel is used and no permanent scarring is left as a result.
