Hair transplant

Hair transplantation is a surgical technique in which hair follicles are taken one by one from a donor area to an area that is losing or has no hair. During this, the follicles that are genetically resistant to hair loss are taken to the bald area. In addition, this method is used to restore eyebrows, eyelashes, beards and mustaches, chest hair and pubic hair and to cover the site of wounds caused by accidents or surgeries such as skin grafts and previous hair transplants. Hair transplantation is different from skin grafting.

1 to 4 hair strands grow from each hair follicle. Today, in the most advanced hair transplantation methods, the hair follicle is transferred intact. The result is a more natural appearance of the transplanted hair. This method of transplantation is called Follicular Unit Transplantation, or FUT for short. Donor hair is collected in two completely different ways. This is a highly specialized work and only dermatologists and hair specialists are allowed to perform it.

History of Hair Transplantation

The history of using scalp grafts, in which scalp tissue along with its main blood supply is transplanted to a bald area, dates back to the 19th century. The use of modern hair transplant techniques dates back to the 1930s in Japan, when surgeons used small grafts and even “follicular unit grafts” to replace damaged areas of eyebrows or eyelashes, but not in the context of baldness.

At the time, their efforts did not receive widespread attention, and the devastation of World War II in their country kept their advances a secret for another two decades. The modern era of hair transplantation in the Western world began in the late 1950s, when a New York dermatologist named Norman Orentreich began experimenting with the use of donor grafts in patients with male pattern baldness.[1] It was previously thought that transplanted hair would not grow back in the “recipient” area beyond the original hair. Ehrenreich showed that the use of such grafts would cause new hair to grow in the recipient area that was as durable as the original hair.