Can Hair Transplants Look Natural

Hair transplants have come a long way since the clumpy procedures of the 70’s when they didn’t look that different from the family room rug. Today just as computers have gotten smaller, so have hair transplants, and the benefits for a hair loss sufferer can be quite amazing. One of the most surprising is that a good hair transplant doesn’t look like a transplant at all.
 
Everybody has seen a bad hair transplant somewhere whether on TV, walking down the street, or even in your own living room. But the truth is you’ve probably seen an equal number of good hair transplants and never noticed. And that’s the point, you’re not supposed to notice. Modern hair transplantation can do that.

Older transplants used large grafts, usually about 20-30 hair follicles, to transplant into areas of the scalp that needed more density. The problem with such a large section of hair is not only did it look like a large piece of shag carpeting was installed on the scalp, but those large donor sections were very difficult to manage for even the best hair restoration surgeons. Oftentimes the hairs would grow in the wrong direction, (you can’t know how odd this looks unless you’ve seen it), and worst of all these large grafts would often be rejected by the scalp and fall out.

Today procedures like Stereo Follicular Micrograft Hair Transplantation can transfer as little as 2-3 hair follicles at a time giving the scalp a much more natural look and providing the hair restoration surgeon a real chance of manipulating the graft to work with the existing hair on the scalp to create a sturdy, healthy hair transplant—that doesn’t look anything like your family room rug.