Types Of Hair Transplants

The different types of hair transplants read like a who’s who from a medical dictionary. Probably one of the most famous – and oftentimes misunderstood – types of hair transplants is the hair plug. While the nomenclature may imply that a plug o hair is moved from spot on the head to another, the actual transplantation that occurs is that of hair follicles. The goal is to replace dead or dying follicles with those what are guaranteed to continue hair production for the duration of your life.

Since these types of hair transplants make use of a number of follicles that each contains about four hairs, the notion that this is still a plug may sound appropriate, in spite of the fact that the size of the plug is considered to be minute. What in the past was known as a plug shift today is usually referred to as follicular unit transplantation. These are not different types of hair transplants but instead one and the same procedure only in advanced form. The old kind of transplantation left something to be desired and it was the unhappy customers who bemoaned the fact that the plugs often looked unnatural and clumpy that led to the innovation in the field.

Of course, if you are still on the fence about which of the types of hair transplants will actually work for you and the transplantation of follicles seems to be too cost and labor intensive, you will be interested to learn that there may be other options available to you. In addition to the hair transplants that rely on follicular movement, the hair flap surgery and also the scalp reduction surgeries are considered to be among the hair replacements that more and more men are now favoring.

Hair transplantation via hair flap surgery simply requires you to move a flap of hair that is sporting healthy hair growth to make up for the spot of baldness that is found on your pate. This is usually preferred by those who are facing a large bald area and know that follicular transplantation for a pate of this size will require a large number of follow up appointments – and also money with which to pay for them. Scalp reduction relies on a smaller area of baldness that is surrounded by healthy growing hair and thus by reducing the size of the scalp the healthy hair can be sutured together so as to present a whole pate covered by growing hair.