Hair Restoration – Hair Transplant Cost and Procedure

Permanent hair transplant methods have been around for decades. The term of hair transplant, in my opinion, relate to the previous procedure on surgery but for the customers side, they main objective is not just transplantation but full hair restoration. Hair restoration required not the surgery but also the right methods/procedures and treatment after surgery.

When you decide to do hair restoration, you need to understand that to transplant you need a donor hair for the balding areas. The hair has to come from somewhere on your body. There can be different donor sites for different people. The most common donor site for hair transplant surgery is on the head. If you have a good side or a bald proof side, then you probably qualified to do restoration.

The basic method of hair restoration surgery procedures is strip incisions and grafting. The strip grafts require surgically removing strips of skin dermis from the contributor area, extracting the hair follicles, and then implanting them on the recipient area. The problem with old procedures is the number of follicles place in one graft. Strip grafts contain at least 10 follicles in each graft many times up to 30 follicles. This is the cheapest method but make the hair looks un-natural. While some surgeons are practicing more modern techniques in hair transplantation, this method of surgery is still effective and quite common.

The latest hair restoration procedure required much less follicles in each graft. The best hair transplant method results come from copying nature, hair for hair. There are 2 procedures you should consider to get natural hair restoration.

Mini-Micro grafting procedure spilt smaller groups of a single or couple hair in each graft. This intended use for this method is to allow for softer construction of replacement follicles and hair. In mini-micro grafting, the surgeons use a multi-bladed knife to quickly generate thin strips of tissue and then use direct visualization to cut the tissue. As a result the graft incision usually larger than the follicle and create the larger wound on donor head.

The second method is Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation. This procedure involves the extraction of individual hair follicles from the back or sides of the scalp and transplanted in small graft sections from the strip to areas that are balding. This type of transplant mimics natural hair growth, and is identical to one’s original hair growth pattern. In fact, this technique can be used to create different levels of density to allow for a more natural look. To do this properly is a very time consuming process. It requires a team of skilled and meticulous medical technicians working closely with the hair transplant physician.

Hair transplant surgery in not cheap, the cost for fully hair restoration usually above $3,000. A common quote for hair transplants is between $3 and $13 per graft. Follicular Unit Transplantation costs much more than micro-grafts; FUT may cost as much as $15 per graft. If you require 200 grafts in one session the cost of surgery easily become $3,000 and usually it require more than just one session. There are two reasons for the wide variance: the procedure/methods of the surgery you choose and the number of graft in one procedure, the more grafts you have done the cheaper the cost per graft.

Since it is difficult to know the difference between a good hair transplant surgeon and an inexperienced one, you need to thoroughly do some research on clinic or doctor and if possible get some direct recommendation from people who already do the procedure before you decide to do hair restoration.

At the end of the day, maintain our hair healthy is cheaper than hair restoration.