Do you have receding hairline? If yes, you might be interested on hair transplantation/restoration.

There is a variety of options you have for hair transplantation/restoration. This would vary from hair follicle grafting, to tissue expansion, to Juri flaps or combinations of these techniques. For a reasonable understanding of the problem, let’s start with why people develop receding hairlines and baldness. The reason that is acceptable to many is that in affected individuals, the hair follicle stops producing hair at an earlier age because of the effects of the male hormone testosterone. It has been observed that follicles at the temporal areas and the occipit or the top of the head are the most sensitive and are the first to be affected. Hair restoration techniques basically bring healthy hair follicles from the side or back of the head to the temporal or occipital areas. There area variety of techniques available but the most popular procedure is what is called hair transplantation, which is also synonymous to hair grafting. This is the most common hair restoration procedure because it produces the most natural look. The operation involves harvesting a strip of hair bearing scalp from the back of the head, preparing the individual grafts, and then transplanting these onto the bald areas. One graft usually contains two to four hair follicles in what we call a micro or minigraft. The operation is done under local anesthesia with sedation and is quite tedious, lasting for a few hours. The patient is not allowed to wet the hair for four days. Soon after, the transplanted hair will begin to grow and will behave like normal hair.

A four to six days’ leave should be enough for recovery. Most of the complications are minor and very manageable. The more important of these is graft failure, wherein the transplanted hair does not survive and does not grow. This is easily corrected by transplanting more hair on the next session. Most patients need two to three sessions for a more normal-looking dense hairline.

Hair transplants are usually packaged anywhere from $900 to $1200 per session (depending on the number of hair that is grafted.)