Hair Transplant Scars

Some people, when they lose their hair, decide to do something about it. Of all the options that are available to combat the devastating effects of the DHT hormone on our hair follicles, the hair transplant method is the only one that produces permanent results. Because hair transplants give you a long term solution to a problem, many people decide to undergo one despite the fact that this treatment is quite costly. In a lot of cases, a hair transplant clinic will be able to deliver very satisfying results. But make no mistake. Hair transplants are a very invasive procedure that will require a resting period of you that will take a few weeks.

When you undergo a hair transplant, you are donating a strip of donor hair from the back of your head to be donated to the area that you'd like to have treated on top of your head. This strip excision leaves a big wound that's sewn up. This may or may not result in a big scar later on. The donor strip is cut up into little pieces named grafts. These grafts are pieces of tissue that have 1, 2, 3 or 4 hair follicles. The grafts have to be implanted back on top of the head. In order for these grafts to fit, a large number of tiny wounds has to be made using a laser. These wounds also need careful treatment in order to prevent them from becoming irritated or infected.

After you have had your hair transplant surgery, you must be sure to take good care of the strip excision wound in the back of your head. Your performing doctor will likely have advised you to treat it a certain way in order to prevent that it will get hard and crusty. You certainly don't want your scar to harden, because it opens up a window to a whole lot more trouble. The doctor will tell you to massage it gently every single day and to rinse it with cold water in order to get the blood vessels in your skin to start pumping some more blood.

It is advised that you follow all of the doctor's advice. If you don't the scar can get hard and it will irritate you for a long time. A hardened scar is hard to penetrate for the blood vessels. The harder the scar is, the number it will feel. Even in the long term. It will also take a lot longer to achieve the same amount of healing than somebody who has taken good care of his/her scar.

Even if you manage to keep the scar soft, there is always a big risk that it will stretch over time. When it does, the surface of the scar becomes bigger. You effectively have more scar tissue than when before it was stretched. This will, again, make it harder for blood vessels to penetrate the scarred part of your skin during the healing process. Usually, stretched scars raise a little bit. Hair transplant clinics would like you to believe that the average hair transplant scar is pencil thin. But the harsh reality is that this is a blatant lie. Most of the hair transplant scars stretch. And when this happens to you, you can expect it to remain itchy in the coming years.

Hair transplant scars do not quickly heal all by themselves. If you want to improve your predicament, you will have to buy scar reducing cream. The ones that have copper peptides in them work very well in my opinion. Copper peptides are an active ingredient that signal your skin to start breaking down scar tissue and start regenerating healthy tissue. If you apply copper peptide cream over a longer period of time, your skin will regenerate more healthy tissue in between the scar tissue. This makes your scar less numb and the back of your head less itchy.