What is a hair transplant?

It's the process of the redistribution of healthy hairs from the lateral and posterior areas of the head to areas suffering from hair loss.

Auto hair transplantation is a unique hair reconstruction technology, and the only technology available today capable of successfully combatting androgenetic hair loss.

In cases of androgenetic type hair loss, certain parts of the head have no remaining normal follicles capable of producing healthy hairs. At the same time, in the occipital and temporal areas of head, there are almost always large numbers of follicles which remain resistant to hair loss factors.

The follicular unit is a hair-bearing structure containing one to four hair bulbs, each of which is able to produce hair.

Hairs in the donor zones are generally always healthy and retain normal characteristics throughout a person's life. Most persons suffering hair loss keep hair in the occipital and lateral regions of head.

The availability of healthy hair in these areas enables surgeons to perform hair transplant surgery using the patient's own hair – auto transplantation – in which follicles are moved from follicle rich areas to areas with less density.

Auto transplantation provides the most natural-looking results possible as all the hair used is the patient's own. This method eliminates the risk of rejection during surgery and is currently recognized as the “gold standard” for the hair transplant market.

However, the transplantation of follicular units requires a great amount of skill and state of the art equipment in order to effectively collect, process and transplant the follicles. Typically the process requires advanced stereomicroscopes and the participation of 6–12 qualified assistants; often this can be a very expensive and labor-intensive process.

Other processes, including the pharmaceutical treatment of hair loss, are inefficient, costly and temporary as they are only able to slow down the rate of hair loss.

Other alternatives include the transplant of synthetic hair made from microfibers. However, this process has been found limited due to the large number of problems experienced by patients – hairs do not grow, many patients experience painful itches, hardening of the hair, scarring and other complications and, eventually, the transplanted hairs fall out.

Therefore Talizi does not use artificial hairs in its transplants, using auto transplant techniques only for long lasting, healthy and complication free results.

 

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