Hair in the front and
top of head is lost because it is Genetically
hormone susceptible. Hair on the sides and
lower back are genetically immune to hormone
sensitivity and are genetically programmed
to grow a lifetime, it will continue to grow
ven though it is transplanted to a different
site. This is the medical fact, and has been
repeatedly proven for more than 50 years.
Follicular
Unit Hair Transplant is the only method
by which one can grow permanently growing,
natural looking, and undetectable hair
in the bald or thin area. In olden days
people used Punch or plug grafts where
bunches of 15-25 hair in a plug taken
from the side or the back of the scalp
(Donor Area) were implanted in the front.
This gave the typical pluggy
(Cornrow, baby doll, tooth brush or
cobble stone) appearance.
They
were later replaced in 1980s by Mini
and then Micro grafts, which were randomly,
cut smaller grafts of 5-8 hairs and
1-3 hairs respectively. The results
improved but were still not near natural
looking. 1983 it was discovered that
nature grows our hair in groups of 1,2,3
or 4 hairs. These were called the Follicular
Units. So surgeons started cutting and
transplanting the grafts in the nature's
way i.e. as Follicular Units and that
gave completely natural looking hair
and therefore Follicular Unit Transplant
although is a highly skilled and labour
and techno intensive procedure, has
become the Gold Standard today.
