What You Need To Know About Hair Transplants

By Douglas Mortonson

More and more people are deciding to have hair transplant procedures done as they realize how many improvements have been made to the techniques. Many people feared getting the procedures in the past, because they were not well done and you could see obvious hair plugs on people who had undergone them although this is rarely true anymore. This does not mean, however, that everyone fully understands everything connected with the procedures.

Some 50 percent of American men experience a degree of hair loss. There is a definite need to deal with hair loss for these men and some do it by shaving themselves. Hair transplant surgery is another way men deal with this severe hair loss. Though those that accept their baldness may have a healthy outlook, they are out of step with what the rest of society is doing to combat hair loss.

Some people believe that these surgical procedures are as easily reversed as removing a wig but this is not true. Not only will your head may never look the same, you will require a number of surgical treatments. The person who has a few hair grafts is committed to their hair transplant surgery regardless of any doctor's promise to try out a few grafts to see if you like it.

You need several days of rest afterward hair transplant surgery: Since the operation is so easy to endure, you might think that you can jump up and go right back to your regular activities. The scalp is just as important to take care of as any major or bone after surgery. Truthfully, you'll have many post-surgery wounds afterward which will need to be protected.

The time commitment for hair transplant surgery is often immense with treatments lasting one or two years. In order to shorten the amount of time required, some patients opt to undergo a mega-session where many thousands of grafts are done in one sitting. The commitment required for these sessions is grueling in and of itself, often requiring a serious amount of time to be performed.

In addition to hair transplant surgery, there are other procedures it may have to be combined with so if you do not have enough hair, you cannot undergo the procedure. There are other surgeries that can be done at the same time to achieve similar results. These procedures are actually far more painful for the patient.

Typically, many grafts will not make it after the hair transplant surgery. The hope is that only a few will be lost and the overall result will not suffer. The reality is that often grafts do not survive despite all the effort involved.

You should realize that hair transplant surgery is not as taxing on your wallet as you might otherwise believe and you can expect to pay about ,000. For a person who has the procedure done at 30 and dies 40 years later, the transplant would cost an estimated 300 dollars per year. Twenty-five dollars per month is much more than many so-called low cost hair loss treatments cost. You would actually save by getting the surgery done in the first place. - 30305

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