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Don't Want Multiple Treatments? Get a Permanent Hair Transplant

Sometimes hair restoration procedures take a long time, and multiple treatments take a lot of money. One of the ways by which you could avoid the hassle is by enlisting the help of a specialist who could perform a permanent hair transplant on you.

Getting a permanent hair transplant may be a worthwhile investment, especially if you're always on the go and you find yourself missing doses of your hair loss medication such as Propecia and Rogaine. Using such medication is often a lifetime commitment, which may take a lot out of your wallet, and impose on your daily routine. Even the most religious medicine-takers among us could get tired, careless, or annoyed by the time it takes to maintain medication.

Hair restoration operations are not uncommon. Mostly they apply the grafting procedure, which means the doctors get to graft a piece of hair-growing skin from another part of your body, into your scalp. It has been proven that hair could regrow on your scalp in this manner! Another technique is grafting patches of scalp from a donor who does not have alopecia. The new patch of scalp will no longer be susceptible to balding. This is called relying on "donor dominance."

In the early years of hair restoration, doctors simply transplanted 4 mm patches from the back of an alopecia patient's scalp, into the front part of the scalp where the balding is more prominent. But this has resulted in a "pluggy" look which makes the operation obvious - and needless to say, alopecia patients were not happy. Since then hair loss specialists have graduated to finer methods, such as multiple mini-grafts (which cover up the "plugginess" of regular transplants), and follicular unit transplants.

The advent of the follicular unit transplant was a major milestone in hair restoration technology. A "follicular unit" is the amount of unit hair that grows on the scalp - and once a scalp has been shaved, the root system for these follicular units is clearly revealed. Surgeons use high-tech microscopes to operate on the scalp while avoiding the root systems of the follicular units. Through this procedure, achieving "plugginess" is virtually impossible.

Does a permanent hair transplant hurt? Well, it shouldn't if you stick to accredited doctors, because their operating rooms are furnished with anesthetics, which could help your scalp relax. Most hair transplant operations require you to be asleep, so you won't feel a thing in the process, but it depends on how skillful your doctor is, if you'll feel the sting when you wake up!