Surgery to cover bald areas of the scalp may be used to treat hair loss. If successful, surgery may be a permanent treatment for hair loss.
Surgery choices
The most common types of surgery to treat hair loss include:
Hair transplant surgery. During this surgery, your doctor will move small grafts (pieces of skin with hair follicles) from areas of your scalp with full hair
to areas of your scalp that are bald or thinning. The grafts may
include single hairs or up to 30 hairs in one graft. This is the most
common type of surgery used to treat hair loss.
Scalp reduction. Scalp reduction involves removing large
areas of bald scalp from the head. Sections of the scalp with growing
hair are then stretched and sewn together to fill in the bald areas.
Scalp flaps. Scalp flaps involve moving a large section of
scalp containing hair from the side and back of the head to a bald
area. One side of the flap remains attached to the scalp as the section
of scalp with hair is moved to cover a bald area. The complication rate
of this procedure is higher than other procedures because of bleeding,
scarring, and infection after surgery.
What to think about
Surgery may be a more permanent solution than medicines to
treat hair loss, but it is expensive, it involves surgical risks, and
there is a chance that not all hair follicles will remain healthy.creadit : http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/tc/hair-loss-surgery
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