Hair has been a source of pride to humans with both men and women giving lot of importance to hair fashions and styling. With hair loss being a cause for social concern, it is not surprising to see more and more patients seek hair restoration.
An average scalp contains 100,000 hairs and the appearance of fullness depends on number of hairs, thickness of each shaft, color and curliness. On an average, one can expect a daily loss of 50-100 hairs but it can increase during stress, pregnancy, certain medications and illness.
There are lot of reasons for hair loss but the common cause is genetic and androgenetic alopecia. In the males it affects the frontal region and in females it affects the midline.
Hair transplantation is a surgical technique that involves moving individual hair follicles from one part of the body (the donor site) to bald or balding parts (the recipient site).
Since hair naturally grows in follicles that contain groupings of 1 to 4 hairs, today’s most advanced techniques transplant these naturally occurring 1–4 hairs "follicular units" in their natural groupings. Thus modern hair transplantation can achieve a natural appearance by mimicking nature hair for hair. This hair transplant procedure is called Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT).
