Rob Edwards
Whilst hair transplants are quite popular with celebrities suffering from hair loss and are well documented in the media, there are many reasons why non-surgical hair replacement may be a better choice for you.
In hair transplant surgery, incisions must be made into the scalp to plant the donor hairs that are taken from another area of the head. However, in making these incisions, hair follicles around the incision can be destroyed.
Once the transplant is completed, a percentage of transplanted donor hairs are expected to die and fall out of the scalp. Hair transplants can in some cases lead to infections which will likely play a part in increasing the number of hairs that can be lost.
One of the main reasons that people choose non-surgical hair replacement over a surgical hair transplant is that transplants will generally not give the density of hair that you are hoping to achieve. Rather than encouraging new hair growth, a hair transplant moves hairs from the back or sides of the head to the area most affected by hair loss. As a result, it’s unlikely that surgery will result in a thick head of hair.
Although a hair transplant can be a solution for hair loss, this surgery doesn’t stop male pattern baldness altogether. Whilst a transplant may mean that hair grows in an area of the scalp that was previously bald or thinning, this doesn’t mean that the hair won’t continue to thin in other areas of the scalp. In some cases, male pattern baldness could result in an island of hair above the forehead, surrounded by bald patches.
As a hair transplant is unlikely to provide the desired density of hair, you can be quite limited with hair styles. For example, longer hairstyles may lead the hair to look thin or thinning, when the whole purpose of a hair transplant is to avoid the appearance of hair loss. In some cases, cutting the hair too short could also lead to making a thin head of hair more obvious.
A hair replacement system can be fully customised to suit you and is tailored to your individual pattern of hair loss, hair type, colour, and density. Hair replacement can be made to appear as natural as your own hair and can be styled in any way that you desire. As this non-surgical approach provides a denser head of hair, there is no need to worry about your hair loss being on show if you style your hair in a certain way, particularly if you have a job where you are in the public eye.
