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Harvesting Hair for Controlling Hair Loss

By Brian Alexis
Aug 26, 2009
While performing hair transplant surgery, hair follicles and hair are taken away from the place of their existence and placed in the area of hair loss. The donor site is the area of the scalp from where hair has been removed and is placed on the recipient site or the scalp is where it is transplanted. The hair and follicles will then continue to flourish in the recipient area covering the entire scalp is of the recipient. This removal and regrowth of hair is a procedure which is called as 'hair harvesting' and is an alternative to hair loss treatment. The procedure may be multi step procedure which in general begins with the planning of hair harvesting and ends with a set of healthy hair on your scalp.

The physician would not remove hair from the donors scalp until the planning has been completed. The donor sites are the back area of the scalp from where hair is taken for transplanting. These are the areas that are not affected by the baldness. We already know that pattern of baldness may differ from individual to individual. This may also depend on the color and texture of hair and also on the thickness of the hair. It may also depend on the type of hair like wavy, curl or straight. If hair are taken from different donor sites than it is very much important to determine how they will be transplanted depending upon the pattern of baldness. One should just decide on how much hair shall be needed to create a nice and healthy hair line.

It is also important to determine how much hair is required from the back line to create a healthy caliber of hair. All of these points are in fact worked out by the hair restoration physicist before even beginning with hair transplantation. Harvest planning from the donor site is also very much important as it cannot be done all at once. It needs to be performed in different stages and may be done over a period of year. The harvest should not under any circumstances affect the scalp of the donor. The process of harvest and transplantation may in fact several weeks of even months and there may be need to discuss about the future hair transplantation possibilities.

One also needs to keep in mind that there are several techniques that may be involved in the harvesting of hair from the donor. Strip harvesting is one of the most common methods. A single, or even triple hair strips are removed from the donors scalp. Later the follicles are dissected from each strip and transplanted. Round grafting harvesting is another technique but is very much uncommon methods of harvesting. One of the newest techniques involved is the follicular unit transplantation. In this method smaller groups of hair follicles are transplanted on the recipients scalp.

No matter what ever method of transplanting one may choose, but the main aim is to try and cover all of the bald scalp to cover hair loss. Transplantation may not be permanent cure but may help to a much greater extent in covering baldness.
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