Bad Hair Transplants

Bad hair transplants. If you're into horror stories, chances are you've read a few about hair transplants gone horribly wrong. Imagine being a person going bald and being very upset about it. You see an advertisement on television or in the newspaper about a hair transplant clinic telling you they can fix your problem right up. They'll show you before and after pictures of a guy whose hair transplant just so happens to be an enormous success story. His before picture will show him with a completely bald, shiny head. His after picture will show him with a head full of hair, almost as if he never lost any to begin with.

These pictures are completely false. You can never, ever expect to get these kinds of results from a hair transplant. If you are going to go in with unrealistic expectations, you will set yourself up for disapointment to begin with. And that's just talking about the results! Don't make the mistake of thinking that a hair transplant is like going to the barber for a hair cut. You don't just walk into a hair transplant clinic, pay the man, get the treatment and then walk out again. This is a surgical procedure. Something people often forget about in excitement of getting their hair back.

A hair transplant procedure involves real cutting, real wounds and real blood. I wish I could describe it prettier than that, but this is just the plain truth. I'm not going to sugarcoat it.

The first thing that's going to happen in a hair transplant, is that they're going to have to cut a strip from the back of your head. You yourself are your own donor. The hairs from the back of your head are invulnerable to DHT, the balding hormone. So these hairs are perfectly suitable for use in your hair transplant. While this patch of tissue is going to be numbed by either few blasts of cold water or an injection, it's still going to be cut out and the wound is sewn up. Most of the time, this wound stretches after healing. This leaves you with a scar that's a few millimeters wide. This might give you irritation and itching for years after the treatment.

The second thing that's going to happen, is that there are going to be a number of wounds poked into the patch of bald skin on your head. People used to do this with a scalpel, but nowadays a laser is used for it. The scalpel didn't give you any burn marks, but it made bigger and coarser wounds. With the scalpel, if you got scarring afterwards, it was much worse than the scarring you got from the laser. The laser's wounds are tinier, but the burning of your skin might cause that area to be more sensitive and itchy permanently. Once the wounds are in place, the grafts containing your hairs are placed back into your head.

After that, the treatment is done and the healing process begins. Your new hairs will fall out after a week or two. This is called shock loss. From this moment on, they will continue to grow normally. A few months later, that part of your skin will look slightly more hairy. Depending on the quality of the hair transplant clinic you have visited, you will either have a 'doll hair' hairline, or a natural looking hairline. Also, the wounds in the back and on top of your head need to be treated with great care post treatment. If you don't, the wounds will develop scars and give you discomfort in the long run.

There are stories of people with horrible scarring on their heads. So horrible that they're in constant pain and they are addicted to pain killers. Meanwhile, their botched hair transplant has resulted in hairs that stick out in every direction but the right one. Don't become one of those people. Inform yourself before having it done!