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Does hair transplant cause scarring and how surgeons hide donor scars?

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Does hair transplant surgery cause scarring
and how surgeons hide donor scars?

Author : HairLossNo.com         Does hair transplantation look natural?

A hair transplant procedure is usually considered a success if it looks natural and all the transplanted hair grows. But hair transplant procedures leave scars, It is just a fact of life. Thankfully, with today's state of the art surgical hair restoration donor closure technique, scars are usually easily concealed by the surrounding natural hair even when cut very short.

Scarring in the recipient area can be eliminated by keeping recipient sites very small. Sites less than 1.2 mm, such as those used in Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation (FUT) and Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), will not leave any visible marks.

1. First of all, the surgeon must be very skilled in choosing the site of the path where he harvests the donor tissue for the hair transplant.
   
   Its width should be no more than one centimeter in most instances. This allows the scalp to close completely when sutured back into place.
   
   If the hair transplant procedure is done well, the scar will not be noticeable even if the patient likes to wear his hair in a short style. The scar will only become unsightly if the patient is genetically predisposed to keloid scarring. People who have this kind of problem need special treatment. If a patient is known to suffer from keloid scarring, the hair transplant procedure is not worth the scarring it will cause.

2. Use a double layer closure method to help the skin heal properly
   There is a hair transplant procedure that keeps the scarring to one thin line.
   
   It consists of cutting the new thin donor strip immediately above the original scar. In most cases, the old scar is removed at the same time. When the wound is stitched up, the entire area of both the old scar and the new cut are sewn into one line. If multiple surgeries are done, this procedure is used every time.
   
   The hair transplant doctors use a double layer closure method to help the skin heal properly to keep the donor strips very thin. The 95% of patients have no problems with their tiny scars at all. The keloid could be camouflaged by wearing the hair just a little longer. Other patients have rubbery skin that stretches too much and so causes wide donor scars. These two groups add up to about 5% of the patients who have hair transplant surgery.

3. Follicular unit extraction (FUE) is the process in which hair graft follicles are selectively extracted from the donor area without removing a strip of tissue. This process can also be used to fill in the donor scar. This will then further minimize its visibility or make nearly impossible to see the original scar.