Hair Transplant

What Are Hair Transplants?

Hair transplants are a hair restoration treatment by harvesting select hairs from healthy areas of your scalp and replanting those individual hairs into the balding areas. At Cornerstone, Dr. Fred Coville uses your own hair for transplants. Depending on the size of your treatment area and the technique used, a treatment may take from three hours up to eight hours.

NeoGraft®

NeoGraft® is an advanced technology that is used to remove hair follicles from a donor site and implant them with controlled pneumatic pressure. Being faster than traditional hair transplant devices, NeoGraft® allows you to reimplant sooner to maintain the healthy restoration and increase the success of the grafting process. Another advantage of NeoGraft® is that, unlike some other harvesting procedures that can leave a long scar in the back of your scalp, NeoGraft® donor sites heal with almost invisible scars

Manual Transplants

As manual implantation takes the longest, it is typically performed for smaller facial areas such as beards and eyebrows. Individual hairs are removed from the donor site and implanted into the target area, allowing for more precise growth of your hair.

Strip Technique

The strip technique was the preferred method for many years as it is less time-consuming than manual implants. However, this technique is used less often now due to advancements in technology such as NeoGraft®. For select patients, the strip technique may still be the ideal hair restoration method.

Under local anesthesia, the strip technique extracts a small portion of the scalp to collect the hairs. Before implanting, your practitioner preps the hairs under a microscope. Individual hairs are then placed manually into the balding areas. The donor site is then closed, leaving a linear scar. After your appointment, you may return home immediately.

What Do Hair Transplants Feel Like?

With NeoGraft® technology, there is no pulling, twisting, or damage to the graft. For your comfort, you may receive local anesthesia with oral sedation to prevent any discomfort during the entire procedure. You should not feel pain during your hair transplant treatment, but you may feel dull pressure as the hair is implanted.

After the local anesthesia wears off, you may feel discomfort similar to a mild sunburn in the treated area. Talk to Dr. Fred about pain medications that will minimize the pain and help your healing process.

Ideal Candidates

A consultation with Dr. Fred will help determine the most effective plan for your unique pattern of hair loss. If you meet the requirements below, then you may be a good candidate for a hair transplant:

• Are in good overall health
• Have realistic goals and expectations
• Have adequate donor hair available
• Prefer permanent, natural hair restoration
• Have mild-to-moderate thinning or pattern baldness

Patients with more advanced hair loss may benefit from combining transplantation with additional regenerative treatments offered at Cornerstone Plastic Surgery.