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What to Do About Hair Loss and Scars After Head Surgery?
I have a couple of scars on my head since 2004 and my hair hasn't grown back since then. What can I do? I had surgery in 2004 from having a brain aneurism.
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arturo
in florida
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Follicular Unit Extraction to Treat Scars/Hair Loss
Follicular unit extraction is an excellent (and permanent) way to restore hair lost due to scarring. Transplanting hair into the scar would involve either some some grafts from the back of the head or an entire donor strip depending on how many grafts that will be needed. Hair transplants will grow in scar tissue thus providing excellent coverage.
"Dr.D"
Fayetteville Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Follicular Unit Extraction Repairs Scarring
Follicular unit extraction (FUE) is an excellent (and permanent) way to restore hair lost due to scarring. As an FUE hair transplant surgeon, I have restored hair loss cases that were due to severe scarring from prior surgeries with great success. You should look into FUE hair transplant as a serious option by doing the following:
Research respected surgeons and clinics
Take a free consultation with any whom you see fit
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Hair Loss in Scars on Head: To Transplant Hair or to Revise the Scar
As you see from my title, there really are two options available for you now that you know the hair won't come back.
Option 1: Transplanting hair into the scar would involve either some some punch grafts from the back of the head or an entire donor strip depending on how many grafts i will need. Whenever I transplant into a scar, I worry about blood supply in the area, i.e., whether the grafts will take. Surprisingly, some theories out there are that hairs that are transplanted into...
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What to do about hair loss and scars after head surgery?
Arturo,
Hair follicles live in one of two states ON when they grow and OFF, when they shed and are dormant. Follicles are extremely sensitive to male hormones (causing male pattern baldness) and to tension.
Sometimes we get temporary hair loss with scalp incision based on tension but this does not last 5 years. As far as what to do - first, I would find out if you lost hair more than a cm away from the incision as that would indicate a process OTHER than the surgery as being responsible...
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Hair loss can be temporary.
In many instances th hair loss following facial or scalp surgery, with the exception of the scars themselves, van be temporary and will typically last yp to 6 months. When an incision is placed in the scalp, occasionally the use of a zig zag incision so that when the hair is wet, it does not "part" and make the scar nore visible,
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