Sacramento Hair Transplant Center
Hair Loss can be attributed to many things, including aging, hormonal factors and genetics as well as other factors such as burns, trauma and illness. While hair loss is sometimes blamed on poor blood circulation, specific vitamin deficiency, dandruff, and even the frequent use of a hat, none of this assumptions are very accurate.
Both men and women can suffer from hair loss resulting in a lack of self confidence. If this sounds like you, you could be the perfect candidate for a medical hair transplant. Hair replacement surgery or "follicular hair transplant" surgery can enhance your appearance and restore that boost of confidence you might need. For younger men and women, hair transplant is a great prevention method for early
pattern baldness. During your initial consultationwith DR Efrain Gonzalez, you will be able to determine if a hair transplant procedure is the right choice for you. At Sacramento Hair Transplant Center we want to obtain the most natural result possible.
Procedure
Hair replacement surgery is usually performed uneder a local anesthetic in our outpatient surgery center. Most patients do not need to stay in the hospital following a hair transplant. Follicular unit grafts and flaps are extracted from donor areas that are usually found on the sides and back of the head. Frequently, two or more surgical techniques are used to create optimal resuts.
Follicular Unit Extraction
Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) is a new method of extracting, or “harvesting,” donor hair for transplantation in a follicular unit hair transplant. In an FUE procedure, an instrument is used to make a small, round incision in the skin around a follicular unit, separating it from the surrounding tissue. The unit is then extracted (pulled) directly from the scalp, leaving a small open hole, which hardly visible.
This process is performed until the hair transplant surgeon has harvested enough follicular units for the hair restoration. This process can take one or more hours and, in large sessions, may be accomplished over two consecutive days. The donor wounds, approximately 1-mm in size, completely heal over the course of seven to ten days, leaving tiny white scars buried in the hair in the back and sides of the scalp.
This method of donor harvesting, removing follicular units one at a time directly from the scalp, is what differentiates the FUE procedure from a traditional Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT), where the donor hair is removed from the scalp in one thin, long strip and then subsequently dissected into individual follicular units using a microscope.
After the grafts are harvested, tiny “recipient sites” are made in the balding area of the scalp using a fine needle-point instrument. The follicular units are then placed into the recipient sites where they will grow into healthy hair-producing follicles. The creation of recipient sites and the placing of follicular unit grafts are essentially the same in both FUE and FUT procedures. The difference lies in the quality and quantity of grafts obtained with each technique.
*For those people that may be interested, we also offer eyebrow hair transplants*
Benefits
Hair transplant results may take a few months to surface completely; but this surgical procedure drastically changes the way that patients look and feel. Self confidence and a certain sense of youthfulness are the two results that most patients experience right away. Dr. Efrain Gonzalez has years of experience in hair transplant procedures, and you may find that he is the right doctor for you.
