Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Gone are the days when one had to endure the shame of a bald patch or scanty hair because of the fear of a painful and expensive hair transplant procedure.

In the past, hair transplantation procedures used larger grafts and often produced an unnatural look. Older mini-micrografting techniques also called for hair being harvested in multiple strips with the follicular units in each strip edge showing damage from the harvesting blades. The cutting of the strips used to break up follicular units and risk additional damage to the follicles.

Scientific advancement has brought to the forefront a hair restoration technique where a patient's hair is transplanted in naturally occurring groups of 1 to 4 hairs, called follicular units.

In Follicular Unit Transplantation, these follicular units containing oil glands, nerves, a small muscle, and occasional fine vellus hairs allow the surgeon to safely transplant thousands of grafts in a single session, which maximizes the cosmetic impact of the procedure.

However, this advanced procedure requires the skill and experience of qualified medical practitioners and state-of-the-art clinic facilities which are available at Laser Inn Aesthetic Surgery Centre in its Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Hyderabad branches in Pakistan.

LIASC opts for Follicular Unit Transplant as this procedure enables the hair transplant to look natural both at the individual follicular unit level and in regards to the overall graft distribution.

Since scalp hair normally grows in follicular units of 1 to 4 hairs, the exclusive use of these naturally-occurring units by the team at LIASC in the FUT procedure ensures that each graft will be identical to the surrounding follicular units. Thus, when the transplanted follicular units grow hair after a transplant, the overall results of the transplant will appear natural.

After hair is removed from the back of the scalp in a single strip, stereo-microscopic dissection allows the individual follicular units to be removed from this strip without being damaged.

With FUT, the surgeons at LIASC have a greater total number of grafts which allows them evenly distributed grafts over the scalp having a constant density of approximately 1 unit per mm2 and results in a natural overall distribution of hair.

The team at LIASC, led by Dr. Zulfiqar Tunio, can accurately estimate the number of follicular grafts that can be obtained from dissecting a donor strip of a given size and the same number of follicular units can be used to cover a specific size bald area regardless of the patient's actual hair density.

At LIASC Follicular Unit Transplant is chosen over other transplant procedures because it minimizes trauma to the scalp as it incorporates  trimming away the excess tissue around the follicular units and then inserting them into small recipient sites on the patient's scalp, thus making the hair appear from the scalp naturally.

These small, trimmed, follicular unit grafts can then be placed into tiny incisions in the patient's scalp; thereby minimizing damage to the scalp's connective tissue and blood supply a relief from the larger wounds produced by mini-micrografting and plug transplants in other procedures. Using large numbers of grafts in each session preserves the donor supply by reducing the number of times incisions are made in the donor area.

This also helps keep intact the elasticity of the scalp and holds the tiny grafts in place which ensures the reach of enough oxygen from the surrounding tissue in order to maximize their survival.

At LIASC, the Follicular Unit Transplantation procedure conducted by our expert team allows hair restoration to be completed quickly and smoothly, allowing the patient to return to his routine as soon as possible, but armed with confidence and poise like never before.
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