Posted on January 3, 2010.
12 common mistakes in hair transplants INTRODUCTION -
Although transplantation of follicular units eliminates many of the shortcomings of most surgical techniques of hair restoration as a "pluggy" Look, a "shabby donor area" or scarring of the scalp midline reduction, lack of aesthetic judgments and techniques that the growth of graft compromise can still lead to problems. Perhaps because transplantation of follicular units required a lot of plugins (using a significant portion of the donor area at a given time), because staff members are involved in the process, and because some of the problems Small transplant procedures are very difficult to correct improperly performed the transplantation of follicular units may pose a higher risk for patients than traditional grafting. The risk is compounded by the fact that many doctors consider that transplantation of follicular units a safe, risk-free and to describe patients as such.
The remainder of this section will concentrate on some of the most common errors committed by practitioners follicular unit transplantation, particularly in the areas of planning, design, hair transplant and handling large numbers of small grafts . These problems and how they can be avoided are summarized below.
1. In operating on patients who were too young or prior medical treatment
2. Failing to identify the low density of donors before surgery
3. Failing to identify a tight scalp
4. Harvesting a donor strip that is too wide
5. Place the incision donor too low or too high
6. With a multi-blade knife
7. Crushing grafts during insertion
8. grafts dry
9. Place the front hairline too far ahead
10. Creating a line that is too broad
11. Angling hair in the wrong direction
12. Trying to cover an area that is too large
Operating on patients who are too young or prior medical treatment -
Patents in their early twenties have their root hair flat adolescents and the initial density fresh in their memory. A hair restoration designed with the frontal and temporal recession enough to look good whole life will rarely meet a younger patient. Creating a density that is ideal for a younger person does not leave enough hair in reserve in case of further loss. In addition, at this age to the extent of future baldness is difficult to predict reasonably well. For these reasons, a hair transplant should rarely be considered in patients with androgenetic alopecia of less than 25 years.
Often, a physician hair restoration begins medical treatment and surgery schedules at the same time. However, if there is a possibility that the use of a drug, such as finasteride (Rogaine), may obviate the need hair transplantation, then the drug should be used for at least a year before any decision on surgery is reached. Drugs should be the first line of treatment for all younger patients with androgenetic alopecia, whatever their degree of hair loss.
Failing to identify donors at low density before surgery hair transplant -
Evaluate offers donors a potential patient with bone densitometry is vitally important and can not be emphasized enough. A donor density low, generally less than 1.5 mm2 by hairs, usually indicates that the supply of donors is insufficient to create an appropriate density or coverage, making the procedure recommended surgical hair restoration. An exception may be an older person with goals very conservative. High miniaturization in the donor area, especially in a person under 30 years, suggests diffuse without cause hair loss (DUPA), and is a cons-indication for surgery.
Transplanting patients with a low density of the donors will also be the risk of a scar where the hair is worn short. follicular extraction is not appropriate in this case because it further limits the available hair. In fact, since the contrast between bald.
