What is Direct Hair Implantation
- August 26th, 2011
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If you are looking for a new head of hair then why don’t you take a look at hair implantation. This method of getting rid of baldness really works well.
Since their introduction in the United States in the 50s, hair implants have become a favorite male baldness solution. Originally, the results were not that great but that has changed. It has improved a lot in its techniques. Now you can be very happy with the results. Unlike the old times when the results used to be quite unappealing because of the scars left, now there is no scarring with the new direct hair implantation technology. The worse you will see is little bumps for a day or two. It allows direct harvesting and transplanting of individual hair follicles using special equipment.
The is different than the old style. The first methods involved cutting out bits of haired scalp from the back of the head and stitching them on to the bald parts of the head. It really was a bad as it sounds. This procedure entailed a lot of incisions all over the head that had to be sewn up. It was painful and bloody. First there was the cut made to remove the scalp chunk which had to be closed up, and then there were the small cuts at the bald areas where the chunks were transplanted into which also needed stitching to keep it in place. All this would cause a messy result with hair growing in all sorts of directions and scars forming all over the head. As you can imagine this did not look very good at all. This is why an advanced technique had to be implemented.