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Hair Transplant for Patients with Scarring Alopecia?
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.
Asked 24 months ago by
leigh77 in mn
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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.
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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.