Dr. Antonio Alvi Armani

Hair transplants are a cosmetic procedure designed to conceal unsightly baldness

Hair transplants are a cosmetic procedure designed to conceal unsightly baldness and in the last decade, hair transplants have become the most commonly performed cosmetic procedure on men throughout the world.  This site will illustrate what to look for in a hair transplant clinic when considering any hair restoration procedure.

Hair transplants are comprised mostly of artistic design rather than surgical technique.  Even the best physicians fail to perform hair transplants that produce exceptional results if they do not possess artistic abilities.  Many wonder what art has to do with hair restoration.  In fact, it plays a significant role.

The goal for any hair restoration procedure is to make results appear completely natural and undetectable.  To do this, each graft—a grouping of 1, 2 or 3 hairs—must be angled so that they may grow in their natural direction.  A highly-skilled hair transplant surgeon will study the scalp and determine the growing patterns of existing hairs.  By doing this, the surgeon can use this as a “natural” blueprint for the entire procedure.

Angling each hair is important to mix the existing hair of the scalp with transplanted hairs in order to be completely undetectable.  However, the artistic design for any hair transplant surgery depends entirely on the patient itself.  To be more specific, everyone has unique physical characteristics and therefore, a surgeon must have a thorough understanding of the human facial anatomy.  This allows hair transplants to be customized entirely to the unique characteristics of each individual patient.

Ethnicity, skin tone, hair texture, hair characteristics, and surgical expectations must all be taken into consideration by the surgeon.  For instance, if a patient has light skin with light blond hair, the contrast is insignificant making hair loss harder to detect and therefore, less density will be needed to reduce the appearance of balding.  On the other hand, someone with dark hair and a light skin tone will require much more hair density since the contrast of hair to skin is much greater.

When searching for a hair transplant clinic, it is important to research the credentials of the surgeon and clinic before making any decision.  But first and foremost, inquire into what the surgeon feels about hair transplants and its artistic aspects.