Cornrow Hair Transplantation And The Possibilities Of Correction

Baldness has always been a sensitive issue with men since times immemorial, and it was sensational to finally have a way to grow hair back on bald scalp— as many surgeons claimed. Having its way with hair weaving, artificial hair extensions and wigs, with hair transplant surgery, hair restoration was finally making a giant leap.

Cornrow Hair Transplant, Hair Plugs— The Idea (What Were They Thinking!)

The idea of the surgery was to relocate the patient’s non-balding hair follicles onto bald zones on an autologous basis, and doing so, the relocated hairs resumed hair growth on the bald zones. But even though the idea was a hit, it met with various downfalls as with cornrow transplants, hair plugs and unprecedented skin incision, excision and suturing methods.

The procedure of extracting one’s own hair sounded lesser invasive than it was initially. The back of the scalp was discovered to have the most stable baldness resistant hair, as ideal donor hair. So, to extract the donor hair, surgeons used to cut a strip of skin and dissect the strip of skin to create hair grafts, with a bunch of hair wrapped with a sheath of fatty tissue.

But, natural hair does not grow the way hair transplant surgeons were creating the hair grafts. They used 7-12 hair follicles for each hair graft, to be planted to the bald zones, which, even though resumed hair growth, created an appearance like the cornrows.

Modern Techniques Of Hair Grafting— Follicular Grafting

Micro grafts comprise of 2-5hairs. However, the 2-5hairs are not selected randomly, but according to the follicular units. Follicular unit is an anatomical feature of hair, which is naturally occurring groups of hair follicles in 2-5numbers. It is through microscopic dissection that these follicular units are dissected with either of two methods— by removing the skin strip with Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT), in a much less invasive manner, using a single blade incision instead of multiple blades which was previously used, or by plucking individual follicular units, directly from the scalp, with Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE).

 Correction Of Cornrows Hair Transplant

Correcting previously performed odd looking cornrow transplants are approached with multiple facets of Follicular Grafting.

Either the surgeon could repair your hair transplant results by removing the unsightly hair grafts, with the FUE graft isolation method, which is to pluck out the hair grafts, one at a time and re-dissect the grafts to create more natural micro-grafts. Or, if the grafts are not that unnatural, using hair camouflaging may be substantial, wherein  new grafts are placed in between the cornrow transplants, to camouflage the appearance.

Harley Street Hair Transplant Clinic offers hair transplantation and correction of hair plugs and cornrow transplantations, for ideal candidates. Find us at http://www.hshairtransplant.co.uk/ .