Factors That Confirm You Eligible To Have A Hair Transplant Surgery

The baldness pattern of the candidate makes a crucial assessment for the best technique of harvesting donor hair.  The current baldness pattern is a signal of future baldness and the extent of it. This is important because the hair affected with genetic baldness carries it’s characteristics to the recipient zone as well, and despite the expensive transplantation, it bears high risk of persistent baldness if the donor hair is not selected carefully.

Hair Densitometry And How Accurate Is it?

A densitometry is a principle to assess hair miniaturization and Norwood classification that uses some specially designed gadgets to do so. A hand held hair densitometer is used by many surgeons that purposefully use magnification to allow counting of the existing hairs. It is applied to selective regions of the hair, and the hair is clipped short for the magnification to image the hair follicles. The densitometer does not give any ascertained hair loss prediction, but with the condition of the hair miniaturization experienced in advanced stages of baldness, surgeons can figure out future hair loss and donor reserve quite well. However, with early stages of baldness, it is very difficult to accurately tell of the donor reserve, the hair loss has to stabilize at an advanced stage of the Norwood class.

What Does Texture And Thickness Of Hair Reveal

The texture and thickness of the donor hair is also determined to assess how many hairs each graft should have to achieve the best coverage. Hair pull test on unwashed hair is done by many surgeons to ascertain the hair strength and whether or not they are miniaturizing. A section of hair is gently held between the index finger and thumb and as gently pulled and if any hair pulls out in the process, it validates active hair loss in the candidate.

Early Stages Of Hair Loss Are Not Eligible For Hair Transplantation

The early stages of baldness due to androgenic alopecia are uncertain to reveal the extent of hair miniaturization and the donor reserve, especially in case of women, wherein hair loss is largely diffusive.

This is because, the early stages of baldness makes hair loss prediction difficult to have a certain conclusion of its future variation. Choosing random hairs from the back of the scalp is not obvious, since many hairs in there are prone to androgenic inflammation as well. So it takes the baldness to stabilize and stop at a certain pattern for at least 2years for surgeons to assess a more obvious donor reserve.

Even though the new principles of hair loss prediction like densitometry even scalp biopsy are run to assess the donor dominant hairs from the recipient dominant characteristic.

Surgeons have devised new and more precise instruments and surgical principles that promise better potentials. These new advancements have not only made hair restoration more far reaching than male pattern baldness. Other hair loss problems such as scarring alopecia, diffusive hair loss (commonly occurs in women) can be viably treated with substantial hair restoration possibilities.