Hair transplant surgery is becoming more popular as they are currently the only real way to restore your natural growing hair. In this type of surgery transplanted hair will continue to grow for a lifetime, giving you a fuller head of hair and a more youthful look.
This has a definite advantage over other hair loss treatments. For example, it’s a one-time cost – you don’t have to mess with gels, special shampoo’s or etc, which can serious side effects.
This article will outline the various types of hair transplant surgery in Pakistan and the benefits of each.
1. FUT – Follicular Unit Transplant
It’s also called FUSS (Follicular unit strip surgery). In this method, a narrow strip of hair is taken from the back of your scalp. The grafts from the strip are then separated and implanted into the balding areas. The donor area is closed with sutures.
Depending on several factors, you may have a small scar in the donor area. Approximate downtime can run from 1 week to a month, depending on the situation. The benefits of this type of surgery is that you can usually get a lot of grafts transplanted in one session. Also, the cost per graft is more affordable than the FUE method below.
2. FUE – Follicular Unit Extraction
This is a new technique that some doctors offered. It involves harvesting each hair follicle separately from the back and sides of the head. Then each hair follicle is transplanted into the balding area.
The benefits are that you get minimum scarring with of FUE hair transplant in Peshawar the recovery time can be shorter to give the best results. The downside is that this tends to be pricier because it’s more labor intense and you also can’t do as many hair grafts per session.
3. Scar Revision and/or Transplant Revision
With this method usually transplanting hairs into the scar line to camouflage the scar line. It’s benefits that if you are embarrassed about a bad hair transplant surgery, you can move to the right surgeon.
The downside is that this could be more expensive than either of the 2 methods above.