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Skin color affects hair transplants. Dark skin and dark hair is great because even the scabbing looks like hair. Basically you want the least amount of contrast.
Skin color does not so much affect transplant scars as does ethnic background. Certain ethnicities, such as people of African or Asian descent, have a higher tendency to keloid than Caucasians. However, with a refined surgical technique, such as advanced follicular unit extraction using uGraft (which is scalpel-free), scarring should not be a problem. Especially in the care of an experienced surgeon.
I have performed hair transplants on people of color with success. The scar quality depends on many factors. Keloids are concern but if there is not a history then scars should not be obvious. Dr ES
Yes, generally speaking the best results are when there is the least amount of colour contrast between the hair and the skinIn other words, the most demanding hair transplant is likely to be in pale white skin and very dark coarse hair
Excellent question if skin and hair color have significant impact on the results of hair tranplant. If there is low color contrast, such as blonde hair with light skin or dark hair with dark skin, that is low color contrast and enhances the result and makes it more natural. If the opposite...high color contrast...black hair on light skin or light hair on dark skin, the surgeon must be very careful with technique to keep grafts natural.
Assuming maintenance of long-standing surgical principles to optimize wound healing, we have found that those with a high density of hair at the donor site have the finest scars. It also seems as though those with the light hair/light skin color combination have excellent scars. Nevertheless, it is possible to have nearly imperceptible scarring across ethnicities. Be sure to address your concerns with your hair transplant surgeon.
There are two types of transplant scars from hair transplants. THE FUE punctate scars and the strip scars (see below in video). The FUE scars are made worse in a very light skinned person if the scars are 1mm or greater
With good surgical techniques scars, are rarely a problem with hair transplant surgery. Skin color has never influenced healing in my experience. Keloids are possible, but I never seen this following hair transplants.
Technically, you can move hairs around over and over. Each time you move it, you risk injury. Trying to harvest transplanted hair, is difficult and risk permanent damage and scarring. Each case is different and the risks should justify the means.
Scalp hair can be transplanted to the leg or any other parts of the body. Many people have these types of requests. The issue is how much hairs would be needed to achieve the desired look and how much donor hair is available.
Full thickness skin grafts can support hair transplants. Graft can survive and grow in the area. You would need an examination of course to make sure this is possible in your case.
This brief video was created by a 34-year-old patient of mine after his surgical hair restoration in our office. He had a 2453 graft follicular unit transplantation session with a conservative pattern that looked towards what would be age appropriate in his 40s, 50s and beyond....
Yes, hair transplant can improve density to areas of thinness on the scalp. However, the success or failure of hair transplant is determined by many variables; your cause of hair loss and age being the main concerns. If you suffer from male pattern baldness and are still at a young age, it may...
Propecia is a drug and hair transplant is surgery. Propecia mainly slows down hair loss. Sometimes it regrows hair. It does not STOP hair loss completely in the long run. Hair transplant is surgery. It is basically moving hair from one location to another location....
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