Hair transplantation is a minimally invasive surgical technique that primarily used to treat male pattern bladness and also can use to restore eyebrow, eyelash, correct female hair line, beards, mustache, and fill in scars caused by accidents or surgery. Goal of the surgery is natural and young in appearance with transplanted hairs.
The primary indication of hair transplantation:
- Partial or complete hair loss in men (male-pattern-baldness or androgenic alopecia).
Other conditions that hair transplantation is the primary treatment method:
- Camouflaging scalp scars in both sexes.
- Partial or complete eyebrow reconstruction.
- Restoration of mustache and beard in men.
- Restoration of hair in the sideburn and temporal region in women.
Relative indications (can be applied just in selected and appropriate candidates):
- Hair loss in women (hair transplantation is suitable in women with male-pattern balding, but not a good solution in women with extensive thinning).
- Young men under the age of 30 with type 1 hair loss.
- Men with the most severe form of hair losses ( type 6 or 7).
Contraindications of hair transplantation:
- Hair loss due to dermatologic diseases of the scalp.
- Extensive hair loss due to chemotherapy.
- Temporary hair loss due to some disorders (diseases of the thyroid gland, dietary, anemia, acute stress).