What About the Hair Transplant Donor Area?
What About the Donor Area? Donor area healing for different methods of hair transplants
Hair Transplant Donor Area Scar Healing
Well, years ago, surgeons let the donor area close on its own, leaving small white scars in the donor area where the hair was removed.
This pegboard effect could only be noticed if you lifted the hair in the donor area or if the hair was shaved closely. By the late 80′s surgeons started closing the donor area with sutures. This seemed to work because everyone has more skin than they need in the back of the head and suturing the donor closed seemed easy. The problems began with the big sessions where wide strips of hair were removed. In these cases, the closure was under tension, and the results were wide scars that we later had to revise.
Most doctors today know that too wide a strip of donor hair is a problem and thus would rather take a donor strip that’s longer and thinner. By doing this, we are reducing the tension on the wound and allowing it to heal rapidly and with the thinnest of scar lines. With modern hair transplants the scars are usually visible upon close inspection when the hair is cut too short or the head is shaved.
Follicular-Unit-Extraction (FUE) and Neograft Hair Transplantsdo not require a strip of hair to be removed from the donor region. Each graft is removed individually form the back of the scalp instead of all at once. The result of hair transplants done using these methods are tiny, undetectable scaring that will heal without the need for donor closure involving sutures or stitches.
Donor area scar healing 6 months after strip method of hair transplant surgery. The scar has become virtually undetectible upon close inspection (Photo credit: Dr. J. Karamikian)
Donor Region Healing in Follicular Unit (FU) (FUE) Transplantation
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WOW! Great hair transplant result in the donor! You can’t even see where the hair transplant was taken.
Was this after a normal hair transplant or a FUE or neograft? Thanks
It is a strip transplant as the photo says. Nice result! I had an old transplant scar from 1992 revised and it looks much better now, I can wear my hair a lot shorter.
Great info on thinning hair! I was wondering when I would go bald if I started losing hair at 20. I am now 25 years old and I use propecia and rogaine to slow the hair loss, seams to work. I wish my hair looked like it did when I was 18 or 19.
Sweet website! I found it while surfing around on Yahoo Answers. Nearly all the questions about hair transplants were referenced to this site. I have had my hair transplant scars reduced and had about 300 hairs transplanted into the scars that were left. The donor area is about 90% better now. The scars were from transplants done 10+ years ago. Thanks for the info doc!
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