Hair Transplants for Men

Hair Transplant Repairs

Hair transplant repairs are actually a big part of most of the elite hair transplant surgeon’s day to day surgeries.  As hair transplant surgery has dramatically evolved in recent years, the days of the ‘doll hair’ look, large and noticeable scars and unnatural looking hair transplants are a thing of the past. This of course, if you elect to have surgery with a hair transplant surgeon that uses today’s modern techniques.

Patients that seek hair transplant repairs mostly do so for the reasons described above. One of the most common hair transplant repairs is to repair the doll hair look that used to be the standard in the hair transplant industry. Dated techniques involved taking a larger group of hairs (10-25) and placing them into a single follicle location, where only 1-3 hairs would normally grow naturally. As you could imagine, when you line up those clusters, it provides a doll hair or corn row look.
Today, hair transplant surgeons can repair that look for hair transplant patients that suffer with this issue, by removing the previously transplanted hairs and slicing them into smaller, more naturally grouped clusters (1-4 hairs)and re-transplant them using the correct angles and hair counts. So where a single hair should be growing, a single hair is transplanted. Not 20 hairs.

In some instances, it’s best to leave some of the previously transplanted grafts and transplant natural looking clusters around the group of ‘doll hairs’ to hide them. A skilled hair transplant surgeon would be able to best judge when this approach is best for the patient.

Hair transplant repairs also involve repairing large and unsightly looking scars in the donor area. Some patients have scars that measure up to an inch! As you can image, having a one inch bare spot running across the back of your head, is sure to raise a few eyebrows. Depending on the width of the scar, hair transplant surgeons can repair this area by cutting the scar out and then closing the area using the proper closure techniques or they can transplant hairs into the scar and once the new hair grows, it will cover the scar entirely (or combination of both techniques can be used depending on the scar).

There’s no reason a former hair transplant patient that has been exposed to primitive hair transplant techniques, should live with the results. They can be corrected. Hair transplant repairs are a big part of many of the elite surgeon’s day to day surgeries, so if you are a victim of a bad hair transplant and require a hair transplant repair, help is out there.

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