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of hair and baldness is often an embarrassing situation for both males
and females. It is often a cause for loss of self-esteem, confidence
and appearance of premature aging. It can be a cause for distress and
many people look towards the advances in cosmetic surgery to correct
this problem. |
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What causes hair loss?
The main cause of generalised hair loss is called androgenetic alopecia
in both men and women. In this condition, hormones combined with
hereditary predisposition produce thinning and pattern baldness. Less
common causes are high fever, severe infection, diet, certain
medications, birth control pills, thyroid disease, childbirth and
cancer treatment. Male pattern baldness usually begins with a receding
hairline and thinning at the crown and continues to progress over a
lifetime. Female pattern baldness usually consists of thinning across
the top of the scalp with preservation of the frontal hairline.
Although the ultimate degree of baldness cannot be accurately
predicted, the age of onset and thee family history are important
factors. Localised hair loss occurs due to scars and localised
infections. |
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What should I be doing?
A proper consultation with a well trained and qualified aesthetic
plastic surgeon and cosmetologist at Aesthetics will help you to reach
a diagnosis for the cause of your hair loss. They may recommend either
medical or surgical treatment for your condition. They will also guide
you to the risks and complications involved. They will also be able to
tell you about the likely outcome from the treatment. |
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What are the options for hair restoration?
Topical or oral medications may benefit some people with early to
moderate hair loss and may also be combined with our advanced surgical
techniques. We provide the latest and most popular technique of micro
follicular hair grafting, which provides the most natural looking,
permanent solution for those who have baldness and thinning hair. |
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What are the areas that are amenable for hair transplantation?
This technique can be applied to the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, beard, moustache and sideburns. |
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What is micro-hair transplant(micro follicular transplant)?
 The
traditional technique of hair transplantation results in crop or plug
appearance of hair, which is unnatural. The technique of micro
follicular grafting which we use literally consists of transplanting
single hair buds ( follicles) to the recipient site. This avoids the
crop or plug appearance and enables creation of a natural hairline and
density. |
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What is involved in the surgery?
Usually under general or local anaesthetic, a strip of hair bearing
skin is harvested from that area of the scalp that never becomes bald
in pattern baldness. Micro or mini follicles of hair are dissected out
gently and meticulously. These hair follicles are then transplanted in
receipient stab incisions at the proposed site for grafting. Great
precaution is taken to ensure that the angle of transplantation is the
same as the required angle of growth. The whole process may involve
transplanting up to 1500- 2000 hair follicles. |
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What should I expect after surgery?
 After
the surgery is complete a dressing is placed on the grafted area to
keep the grafted area protected. Most people do not have significant
pain after surgery and is mostly controlled by simple pain killers
taken orally. Some itching and swelling occurs but is generally mild.
The dressing is removed after seven days. The transplanted hair falls
out in about two weeks and generally begins to grow in about three
months. You are requested to be patient and it is quite disappointing
to see the transplanted hair fall off. Once the hair has grown, a next
session may be performed to improve the density of the hair. For most
people this means two or three sessions. |
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What are the complications?
There are no serious complications. Very rarely bleeding might continue
from the receipient donor site. This would happen if you have a
clotting problem. A detailed history and investigations will try to
eliminate this possibility. Infections are rare but can be controlled
by antibiotics. Sometimes the donor site healing may be delayed. |
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Will a hair transplant work for me?
While age is not a barrier to having hair transplantation, a
conservative approach is indicated to produce results, which appear
natural for the rest of ones life. You don’t need to wait till you are
bald to begin hair tranplantation. The ideal candidate will have dense
growing hair at the donor site and realistic expectations of what the
result will be. |
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| How can Aesthetics help me? |
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| While
age is not a barrier to having hair transplantation, a conservative
approach is indicated to produce results, which appear natural for the
rest of ones life. You don’t need to wait till you are bald to begin
hair tranplantation. The ideal candidate will have dense growing hair
at the donor site and realistic expectations of what the result will be. |
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