The process of the removal of hair follicles from one part of the body to placing them in the balding part of the body is known as hair transplantation. The site from where the hair is taken is known as the donor site and where it is transplanted is called the recipient site. Hair transplantation is used mainly for treating balding patterns in both, males and females.

Hair transplantation can be used to treat the eyebrows, eyelashes, chest hair, pubic hair, beard and can even be used to fill up the scars. Keep in mind that it is not the same as skin grafting.

Beauty is just not the only reason why one needs hair. On a good hair day is as important as it is because people feel amazing when they have healthy, bouncy hair. This means that if a person loses their hair, their confidence levels begin to gradually hit rock bottom. But before things can get any worse, the person can seek from specialists who can carry out a hair transplant. These surgeries have been performed by American doctors since 1950. But over the years the hair transplant techniques have undergone a lot of refinement and have developed into much better procedures with more assured results.

When one suffering from baldness visits the clinic for a hair transplant, the surgeon will first clean the person’s scalp and then inject the medicine to numb the back of their head.

There are two types of hair transplant methods that the surgeon has to choose from to execute the treatment. These two surgical technique options for hair transplant are:

• Follicular unit extraction or FUE
• Follicular unit strip surgery or FUSS.

In FUSS, the doctor will remove about 6-10 inches of skin from the back of your head. This is set aside by the surgeon after which the scalp is stitched. The area is then covered by the hair which is surrounding it.

The surgeon then divides this strip of skin into tiny grafts of five hundred to two thousand grafts each with one or very few hairs. Based on the person’s type of hair, its quality, the hair color and the area of the place where one is getting the transplant done, the type and the number of grafts that have to be done to a person are determined.

If the surgeon is performing the FUE surgery on the patient, then his team will first shave the patient’s head. The next thing the surgeon has to do is to remove the follicles from that area one by one. When the area starts healing there will be visible small dots that will be covered by the hair that is already existing.

After this stage, procedures for the FUE and the FUSS are the same.

After the grafts are prepared by the surgeon the area where the hair will be planted is cleaned and numbed. The surgeon will make slits or holes using a needle or a scalpel and slowly place every graft in each of the holes.

The time required to complete the process will be between 4-8 hours depending upon the size of the hair transplant that is being performed.