Hair Transplant / FAQ

Transplanted hair, like all natural hairs have a life cycle and may someday even fall permanently. A good hair transplant procedure together with ongoing maintenance medication can achieve long term aesthetic results and give the recipient a good 10-20 years of improved hair density or hairline

They most definitely are. The improved confidence we see in recipients of hair transplantation are priceless. However, one must ensure they get a good team to achieve the results that matches the expectation.

Hair transplants become not worth the money and time, if the results fail to show because it was improperly performed by the transplant team.

Generally recommended to perform after the age of 21. Any age is a good age, but the early one can do it would be better because there would be more natural strong donor hairs available for the transplantation.

Hair transplants fail because of 2 general reasons.

1. Operator factor. The operating team is not specialized in it or have poor trained personnel or worst yet have unqualified people performing it.
2. Patient factor. Some patients do not come back for their follow up and are not willing to be on regular medication to ensure optimization of transplanted and existing hairs after the procedure.

Hair transplant done by a qualified, experienced, and trained team is very safe with high regrowth percentage.

Things can go wrong when the transplant team has poor experience or poor training and cannot deliver what is promised.

Hair transplants utilized your own hair follicles, so there is minimal to no rejection of tissue and hairs.

However, a common question by many as to whether donor hairs can be taken from someone else? The answer is NO, because the risk of rejection is high.

Hair transplants done by a good team would almost produce results that is undetected to the untrained eye.

Four months after a hair transplant procedure, the hair follicles would start to regrow its hairs. By the 5th to 6th month a “carpet” of hair can be seen, and then after the density would gradually increase.

Yes, chest hairs can be transplanted to the head. However, the texture and length of chest hairs pose as a limitation for its use.

Yes, chest hairs can be transplanted to the head. However, the texture and length of chest hairs pose as a limitation for its use.

Theoretically yes, however practically there would be a great challenge to harvest those hairs of limited number and use.

Theoretically yes, but practically it has very limited value.

While the answer is yes, the common areas for transplant apart from the head are on the face to reconstruct a beard or moustache. Reconstruction of eyebrows. And sometimes reconstruction of chest hair or pubic hair.