Hair Replacement Az – Caring For Your Hair Replacement After Surgery

Hair transplantation is a technique in hair replacement that is receiving wave reviews for its effectiveness in treating various forms of baldness. It is basically a simple process that advances on the progress made by skin grafting and now include the movements of live hairs and their hair follicles along with a patch of skin – called the follicular unit – from a donor site of your skin with good hairs, to a recipient site in which you have lost hairs to baldness.

Formally a very expensive procedure, hair transplantation has become affordable enough for most middle class folks to easily afford, so that even you can go for it. Furthermore, there are so many surgeons in and around the United States that actually specialize in this type of surgery, so that you may actually have trouble deciding on which one of them to book an appointment with.

You are often given a sedative to put you to sleep, and you are given a local topical anesthetic also, to help deal with the pain of the incisions that have to be made to your skull. The recipient patch of skull is more fortunate than the donor site because it is covered up immediately. The donor site has to be cauterized to avoid infections, even after the operation is completed. Often you may have to return for more surgeries two or three times a week, until the hair replacement procedure is completed and the grafted skins start growing hairs that look more or less like the one you lost.

Semi-permeable dressings have to be put over the wounds and incisions made by the process to allow the seepage of blood and tissue fluid to the surgical area. These dressings have to be applied and changed daily; the recipient area also remains vulnerable and must be shielded from the sun; and for best results, and shampooing of the head is started two days after the surgery. The shampooing prevents scabs from occurring around the hair shaft which can adhere to the shaft and increase the risk of losing even the newly transplanted hair follicles. As a result, the entire process has to be carried on for the first 7 to 10 post-operational days.

The first ten days are critical after a hair transplantation surgery. You may during this time have some dose on immunosupressants to prevent infection and lessen the chances that your body rejects the follicle grafts. During those ten days, you are likely to lose even all of the transplanted hairs to ’shock loss’ because they were traumatized by the procedure. And then, it may take a couple of months, but new hair will begin to grow as the moved follicles adapt to their new home.

All things being equal, your hair should grow normally and get thicker for up to the next nine months, and you are not likely to lose hairs from those sites again. Other untreated areas of your scalp may still lose hairs, suggesting perhaps that you need the use of medications to retard such losses, or other transplant procedures to deal with them. That will be up to the doctor, and to how well you respond to this one.