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"Repair Work" - When will it end?
We are sad to report that in spite of much of the new information available to physician regarding new hair transplant technologies, the older methods are still being performed. Although packaged with new names to make unwary patients think that they are getting state-of-the-art surgery, they are often the same old procedures, that leave an unnatural look and waste too much of the precious donor supply. Repairing poorly planned and improperly executed transplants still occupies as much as 50% of the surgeries performed in some NHI locations. Physician acceptance of newer techniques seems to be lagging.
With new Follicular Unit Transplantation procedures, the old pluggy or unnatural look can be readily camouflaged, but the patient still needs an adequate supply of donor hair to accomplish this. Microscopic dissection allows the retrieval of donor hair in, and around, the scar tissue produced by the old transplants, significantly increasing the amount of usable hair. Even so, it is far better to do it right the first time, so please try to do your "homework", before your first procedure.
Other problems of poorly performed transplants such as hairlines that are placed too low, or with hair placed in the wrong direction, can be fixed by removing the improperly placed grafts and then microscopically dissecting out the follicles, and re-implanting the hair.
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