The surgeon will separate the removed portion of scalp into small sections using a magnifying lens and sharp surgical knife. When implanted, these sections will help achieve natural-looking hair growth. Then, the surgeon will make little holes with a blade or needle in the area of your scalp receiving the hair transplant. They’ll place hairs in these holes. On treatment session, a surgeon may transplant hundreds or even thousands of hair.
After grafting, gauze or bandages will cover your scalp for a few days. A hair transplant session can take for hour or more time. Your scalp may be sore and you may need to take medications following hair transplant surgery, just like pain medication, antibiotics to reduce your risk of infection. Anti-flammatory medications will keep swelling down. It’s normal for the transplanted hair to fall out two to three weeks after the procedure. This makes way for the new hair growth after sometimes. Side effects in hair transplant are usually minor and clear up within a few weeks. These include bleeding, infection swelling of the scalp bruising around the eyes, a crust that forms on the areas of the scalp where the hair was removed or implanted numbness of the lack of sensation on the treated areas of the scalp, itching on scalp, inflammation or infection of the hair follicles, sudden but typically temporary loss of the transplanted hair which as known as called shock loss, un-natural tufts of hair.
If you don’t take medication or undergo a low level of laser therapy, you may continue to experience hair loss in non-treated areas of your scalp.
