HAIR TRANSPLANTATION CAN BE CONSIDER AS A MINOR FORM OF SURGERY.

The following is a step-by-step explanation of the procedure and answer to the most commonly asked questions about hair transplantation.

 
1. First, the patient lays and relaxes.
2. Special combination of mild sedatives are then administered while the patient is being hooked up to monitoring equipment in order to ensure a safe and comfortable procedure.
3. Hair in the donor site (occipital region) is taped up, allowing access to the selected area of hair bearing donor scalp. A narrow strip of one to four centimeters wide and up to 30 centimeters long is marked according to each case.
4. The choosen area is anaesthetised "(frozen)" The combination of sedation and anaesthesia makes the procedure virtually pain-free.
5. The strip is surgically exsized.
6. While the grafts are being prepared, the gap in the donor area left after removal of the strip, is sutured and closed by pulling the edges of skin together. When this has healed, all that is usually left is a faint, unobstrusive linear scar, barely detectable a few months later. The scar is completely hidden by the surrounding hair following surgery.

7. Slits, or pin-like needle holes are made in the bald or "recipient" area for insertion of grafts, all according to the predetermined layout personally designed by Dr. Treviño and his team during the consultation.

 
8. These grafts are inserted in a pattern, either geometric or random, so as to be scattered leaving "normal" skin arount each graft intact, this is necessary to ensure an adequate blood supply for each individual graft. If adequate space is not left around each graft in this manner, the blood flow will not be able to reach every graft, especially in the interior parts of the transplanted areas, resulting in poor growth.
9. Once all grafts have been placed and the sedation wears off, the patient usually remembers litle of the procedure (most oven fall asleep during their hair transplantation).
10. The patient goes home after the procedure is over, and the healing process starts inmediately. In most cases we recomend a dressing over the donor and the recipient area overnight.
11. The hair can be washed very gently with a mild shampoo after 24/36 hours.
12. The stiches from the donor site are usually taken after a week.
13. The crusts will fall with the hair between the 2nd. And 3th. Week.

14. Your new hair will start growing the ¾ month after the surgery and will never fall again.