Hair transplant - is it a painful surgery?

Dear Aakash
Thanks for the question. Most patients are surprised there is virtually no pain during an hair transplant procedure done under a local anesthetic. After the surgery, patients will typically feel some minor discomfort. I wish you all the best.

We use local anesthesia for our hair transplant patients.At the beginning of the procedure our patients do feel a few needle sticks in their scalp, as the local anesthesia is being placed.  But once the local anesthetic has taken effect, the procedure is pain free.During the portion of the procedure when we are implanting the grafts into the recipient site, most of our patients are playing games on their iPhones or iPads.Consider meeting with a board certified plastic surgeon to find out more. 

Hair transplant surgery is performed under local anesthesia. It should not be a painful surgery.  Numbing process is painful as you may expect from local anesthesia.