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Hair Transplant for Patients with Scarring Alopecia?

asked 2 years ago by leigh77 in mn
Latest answer by Jack Fisher, MD
Question viewed 924 times
Tags: face, hair, scar, skin, spots

If one has scarring alopecia doesn't that make you a candidate for a hair transplant? Scarring spots occurred with a break out from Lupus-related to my skin on my face that spread to my scalp.

 

 

6 answers to Hair Transplant for Patients with Scarring Alopecia?

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Hair transplant to treat scarring alopecia

There are a variety of scarring alopecias, some that are in fact very appropriately treated with hair transplants. Discoid Lupus can often be successfully treated with a hair transplant.
Jeffrey Epstein MD, FACS

Miami Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.plasticsurgeryoftheface.com

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Hair Transplant for patient with Scarring Alopecia

In order for a hair transplant to be successful for scarring alopecia, the disease needs to be inactive and there must be adequate donor hair. I have good results putting hair into scar tissue as long as the primary disease is stable.
Jack Fisher, MD

Nashville Plastic Surgeon

www.fisherhaircenter.com

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Hair transplants might not work

With what appears to be an active auto-immune disease process, hair transplants might be rejected. One should wait for 2-3 years of inactivity before trying transplants or excision of bald areas.
Sheldon S. Kabaker, MD

Oakland Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.kabaker.com

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Hair transplants don't grow well in scarred tissue.

Your best choice for scarring alopecia is excision of the scar with or without a tissue expander, or a scalp flap to reconstruct the area where the scar was removed. For large areas we use the Fleming-Mayer Flap, but this is not usually needed for small areas. Also, excision is much cheaper than transplants.
Toby Mayer, MD

Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Hair Transplants do work for scarring alopecia

Hair Transplants do work for scarring alopecia and I have had great success with this. This is a somewhat controversial topic in the hair transplant literature. It has been suggested that more studies be done on patients with Lupus and other autoimmune disorders due to poor results that have been observed. The best that we can say is that follicular unit hair transplantation has very little risk and does work for many patients with scarring alopecia.
Kevin Ende, MD

Manhattan Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Hair grafts in scarred beds

Hair grafts do not generally do well in scarred recipient beds. Successful take of transplanted hair grafts is possible but it truly depends on the extent and depth of the scars.
Otto Joseph Placik, MD

Chicago Plastic Surgeon

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