What are the major factors for a successful hair transplant procedure?

The major factors which we need to understand before going ahead for a hair transplant procedure are as follows:

• Our donor capacity and requirement
• Medical fitness, blood test and ECG eligibility
• Clinic or hospital premises infrastructure and OT facilities
• What method of hair transplant is done
• Qualifications of the Surgeon and OT technicians
• Success ratio and reviews of the clinic and hospital

Hair transplant is popular procedure these days and been performed at many places nearby our houses in respective cities. Now as the demand grows and qualified surgeons with complete OT facilities with modern tools are required to perform the procedure in a safe and hygienic OT environment. There are many ways hair transplant is been performed from FUT to FUE method and the FUE method is the most popular method of performing hair transplant in modern days.

Our donor capacity plays a major role in hair transplant as that is the main source of healthy hair follicle unit grafts to be relocated from the back of the scalp to the recipient zone. Averagely on an Indian scalp the donor capacity is limited to 7000 to 9000 healthy follicular unit grafts availability if the donor capacity is good enough and in stage 3-4 of hair-loss condition. From stage 5 of hair-loss condition the donor capacity becomes limited and the requirement on the cranial zone becomes more and coverage of the entire hair-loss zone is difficult to cover with desired density.

Medical fitness for hair transplant procedure is must and we need to undergo a blood test and ECG to understand the values of the complete blood count report, bleeding time, clotting time, prothrombin time, anti hcv, hbsag, HIV and ECG. As the procedure is performed under local anesthesia the mandatory tests are required as a fitness which need to be check by the operating Surgeon and advice the client on the pre-operative measure and medications to be taken if he or she feels its required for the client before the procedure date. Food and drug restrictions are also administered by the surgeon on special cases.

The facilities in the hospital and clinic premises plays a major role in performing a hair transplant procedure as the OT should be equipped with complete hair transplant procedure facilities inclusive of OT lights, OT bed, autoclave facilities, oxygen cylinders, IV facilities, refrigerator, hair transplant instruments, rotor motor, adequate and quality punches, foreceps, bm monitor etc. The OT lounge also should be we designed for the clients to relax during the break, have lunch and snacks, watch tv, work on laptop etc. the OT room and the OT lounge should be completely fumigated, sterile and hygienic. The tour of the OT and the lounge should be done before we decide on the procedure date with the particular hospital or clinic.

Recently the methods of hair transplants has changed a lot in FUE and people do perform basic FUE, Implanter method FUE , Titanium FUE, Simultaneous implanting FUE & Sapphire FUE. Among all these methods Titanium FUE and Sapphire FUE is relatively new and more advanced than the other FUE methods.

Then comes the qualifications of the Surgeons which is the most important thing to know to gauze the credibility and academics of the operating Surgeon. According to the National medical council the Dermatologists, Plastic Surgeons, Maxillofacial Surgeons are eligible to do hair transplants with adequate training and practice. Hence we need to make sure that we are in good hands and the doctor is eligible to do hair transplants with enough of experience as the Doctors performing hair transplants are more of an artist and less of a doctor.

The success ratio of the hair transplant method performed by the hospitals and clinics should reach a success ratio of minimum 94% with reviews rating varying from 4.6 to 5 in google or trust pilot. Also we need to make sure to check whether the reviews are authentic by picking up random reviews and name of the individual and try connecting with them to know their experience over the phone. We should even ask the clinic to connect to the happy clients to know their experience.