• What are the Patient Selection Criteria?
The all planning should be made according to the true determination of the adrogenetic alopecia and the size and properties of the donor area. The age, family history and physical examination of the patient are the important factors a in order to make this determination.
The whole hair loss of the area is not required and advantageous before the hair transplantation. The present hair of the person having early androgenetic alopecia may provide a better camouflage relatively after the operation.
The time between two operation should be longer if the second operation is required.
The hair transplantation on the hairy area does not speed the hair loss. However, the hairy area requires more care. The cuttings made in order to open channel should be in the same direction and angle with the present hair in the area.
In addition to these, the effective medical treatments are applied in order to protect the existing hair of the person. The person will not lose the existing hair and have a second operation when these treatments are successive.
There is no definite rule related to the age for the operation. However, the operation is not proper for people who are younger than 20 years old and older than 80 years old.
The rate of women having hair transplantation is more than men at the moment.
The women are the acceptable candidates for the hair transplantation because of the developments during last 10 years.
The result of the hair transplantation is not only due to the type of hair loss but also due to the factors such as colour of hair, thickness of strand, structure of strand, etc. The lesser the contrast between the colour of hair and the colour of the bottom skin is, the lesser the thinness of the hair is noticed and the hair transplantation gives a more successfully result. In this respect, the patients who are more lucky are the ones whose hair are in yellow, white and grey colours respectively. As a rule, the yellow, white and grey hair having less intensity seem more intensive when compared to hair in dark colours.
The patients having brown or black hair need more graft transplantation. The thick strands close wider area. The people whose hair thickness are approximately 80 micron are more luck than the people having thin strands. The increase of 0,01 mm in the strand can provide a shock increase of %36 in the hair volume. As a rule, more transplantation is needed for thin hair. In addition to these, the wavy and curly hair has more advantages in the hair transplantation since it seems more intensive and volumed. As a rule, the wavy and curly hair seems more intensive with less intensity.
The hair transplantation operation does not only applied in androgenetic alopecia. It can also be applied successfully in the hair loss having cicatrix after burn, wound and injury and alopecia aerate (pelade) diseases. The transplantation may also be applied to the beard and eyebrow areas except the hairy skin.
