Because of increasingly improving methods, it is becoming far more common for people to have hair transplant procedures. Today, it is not as easy to spot a person who has obvious – and bad – hair plugs as it once was. Yet, people do not fully understand many facts about this procedure.
For a full fifty percent of all American men, hair loss is a problem. Some men shave their heads completely, as they feel this is the best way society gives them to deal with their hair loss. Other men decide instead to undergo hair transplant surgery. Some go with the desire to stay au natural with their baldness, though they are considerably behind the rest of the world by making this choice.
The procedure is permanent: If you decide you do not like the results, it is not as simple as taking off a wig to change your hair. You need a number of surgical treatments and your head may never look the same. Beginning the hair transplant procedure is thus a very committed undertaking because the first few grafts commit you for life so any doctor’s promise to try it out to see if you like it first is a warning sign to look elsewhere.
You might think that because the surgery is so easy to bear that you can just jump back into your activities, but the truth is, you’ll need plenty of rest after hair transplant surgery. You might believe that post-surgery care of your scalp is not as difficult or as necessary as post-surgery care of muscle or bone, but this isn’t true. In actuality, you have many small wounds following surgery and you’ll need to protect those wounds.
The time commitment for hair transplant surgery is often immense with treatments lasting one or two years. Mega-sessions where thousands of grafts are done in one sitting help to shorten the overall time. The commitment required for these sessions is grueling in and of itself, often requiring a serious amount of time to be performed.
Normal treatment is not always available to everyone and some people do not have enough hair to undergo hair transplant surgery. There are additional surgeries that can help achieve the desired goals that can be performed simultaneously. Of course, these procedures are usually far more painful.
It is unlikely that your surgeon will share with you the fact that not all grafts survive. Hopefully, only a few will be lost and this will still make the result a desirable one. Though every effort is made to ensure that grafts survive, this is frequently not enough.
This may be actually less than you would expect. If you got it done at age 30 and died at age 70, you would have the transplant 40 years, which averages out at 300 dollars per year, or 25 dollars per month. Though many people tend to go with the low cost treatments, these will cost you much more than 25 dollars per month. You would actually save by getting the surgery done in the first place.
