How Your Hair Will Look After Hair Transplant Surgery: Here Are Several Facts

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The Facts About How Your Hair Will Look After Hair Transplant Surgery

If you are wondering how your hair will look after hair transplant surgery, you will not know for sure until after the procedure has been done. The truth is, every head of hair is different from all others and you cannot know exactly how your hair will look. In this article, however, we do list several facts so as to give you the best possible idea of how your hair will look after hair transplant surgery.

Fact #1 - The more hairs per graft that are used in your hair transplant, the less natural your hair will look.

Many doctors still use grafts that contain up to eight hairs. These do not look as conspicuous as the hair plugs of earlier decades, but they do not look as natural as they can, either. Try to find a doctor that uses grafts that contain one to four hair follicles.

These smaller grafts, also called follicular unit grafts, are ideal in restoring a receding hairline. If your doctor uses the follicular unit grafts for your hairline, it will look much more natural than with the larger plug-like grafts. This is important because your hair transplant will be noticeable if the hairline is not done well.

Fact #2 - Your hair transplant site will be fuller if you have higher density in your donor sites.

The density is based upon the number of hair follicles you have in each section of your scalp. If you have a high number of hair follicles per square centimeter than most people, more grafts can be done, so your hair will look fuller.

Fact #3 - Your scalp laxity will also affect the fullness of your resulting hair transplant site.

This refers to the flexibility of your scalp. How loose your scalp is helps to decide how many grafts can be done just as hair density does.

Fact #4 - Coarse hair will cover more area.

When your hair transplant is done, the surgeon will be able to use fewer hair follicles per graft if your hair is coarse. That is because coarse hair provides more coverage. However, finer hair will tend to look more natural, if thinner.

Fact #5 - Straight hair does not cover scalp like curly hair does.

If you have straight hair, you can be sure that your hair transplant surgery will be a challenge to your doctor. Curly hair appears to provide even more coverage than it actually does because it stands up from the head.

Fact #6 - The way your hair color compares to your skin color will have an effect on the look of your hair transplant.

If you have a hair color that is similar to the color of your skin, you are in luck. Your scalp will not betray any lack of coverage that happens to be present. If, on the other hand, your hair and skin color contrast distinctly hair follicles show up more. If there is even the slightest lack of coverage, it will be evident. Just imagine a very light-skinned person with jet-black hair. This person's hair follicles will stand out in a very obvious way.

Again, no one ever really knows how your hair will look after hair transplant surgery until they see the results. All of the basic problems can be dealt with if a skilled surgeon is involved. However, knowing the possibilities will make it easier for you to know what questions to ask.

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