Combat balding with hair transplant today! How does balding happen?

The male pattern baldness is genetically driven. Hair loss is progressive, with hair becoming thinner, eventually turning into complete hair, especially in the front and then in the middle part of head.

The life cycle of hair takes about 3 years from beginning to death. In the balding process, the life cycle does not go through as normally as a healthy hair's life cycle. In thinning hair, decreasing density occurs, with a reduced time of the hair cycle.

As the hair's life cycle progressively shortens, it eventually results incomplete loss of hair on the scalp.

Female pattern baldness is also usually associated with genetic inheritance, the hairs reacting more sensitively to male hormones. However the level of male hormones in a female is a much lower level than in the male, therefore the baldness in female is less severe than the baldness in the male. The female pattern is different from the male, it is rather more scarce in terms of density.

Medical versus Surgical treatment

There are generally two groups of treatment.

The medical treatment includes oral medicine, propecia and topical treatment, minoxidil. These medicines are helpful in the treatment of hair loss in the vertex of the scalp. However, they don't have any affect in the hair line areas in the forehead.

Surgical treatment initially started off with the punch graft, then minigraft.

This is the example of punch grafts, showing rice farm appearance.(very unnatural hair lines and transplanted grafts)

However, nowadays we use each follicular unit grafts.

In 1992, Professor Kim Jung Chul, hair transplant centre in KyungBook National University in Dae Gu in South Korea came up with the idea of a follicular unit graft using a hair implanter. This revolutionalised hair transplants because they can look so natural in appearance.

Benefits of using the implanter are that the angles and density of the implanted hairs can be easily controlled. Also the trauma to the recipient site can be significantly minimized so that less bleeding occurs with faster recovery times. With the naked eye it is almost impossible to tell the difference between existing hair and harvested hair.

The whole hair restoration procedure takes about 5-6 hours and our hair clinic gives advice for hair care and washing until the sutures are removed in 9 days. People usually go back to normal duties in around 5 to 7 days after the hair transplant surgery. We perform the same surgery in other parts of Australia too.