Friday, October 12, 2018

Hair Transplant

Unknown October 12, 2018

Direct Hair Transplant

Direct Hair Transplant procedure is the latest breakthrough in the hair restoration field. It is most innovative and advanced technique of hair transplantation. Direct hair transplant is comparatively fast and completely painless.

In the DHT technique each hair follicle is extracted one-by-one from the donor area and then these hair follicles are implanted directly to the recipient area. There is no need of slit or hole formation over the donor area before the hair follicle transplantation. There occurs no delay in the grafting and implanting of the grafts leading to increased survival of the grafts. The survival of extracted hair follicles depends on various factors and some of the important factors are: Graft Hydration, Cold Temperature, Prevention of infection and Mechanical trauma during handling of the graft.

In direct hair transplantation there is no handling of the hair roots and hence no damage to the hair follicle during the whole procedure starting from the harvesting of the graft to the implantation of the hair follicle. As graft is not exposed to the environment hence there are no chances of infection or graft desiccation.

Advantages:

No linear scar over the scalp
Grafts can also be harvested from areas other than the scalp, hence specially suitable for patients having very sparse hair over scalp.
Grafts are directly transplanted over the bald area of scalp without exposing them to the external environment leading to better graft survival.
No desiccation and mutilation of hair follicles due to separation of the hair follicles from the graft in other techniques.
Less discomfort for the patient as all the procedures can be done in the sitting position.
Less invasive, minimal risk of infection and complications.
Minimal post-operative medications and care required.
Faster healing as it uses smaller diameter punches.