New Hair Transplant Technique Does Not Let Scars and Uses Hair from All Over the Body

Testosterone strikes hard on men's capillary adornment and by 40, half of them present some degree of baldness.

Fundamentally, this can provoke problems of image and self esteem, more than anything a psychological problem. Some men bear bravely the problem, others invent hair dues a la Julius Caesar, and a third category appeal to plastic surgery. Older implants give pluggy looks. Newer techniques have overpassed this, but they left strip scars.

While many new techniques are now able to get natural looks of the hair on the head top with the more refined follicular unit grafts, they let strip scars on the back of the scalp, which impedes the clients to cut short their nape hair as the surrounding hair hides the scars. This is because physicians harvest "donor hairs" via scalpel by removing long, thin strips of skin from the nape area where the hair never falls out.

But a new technology, developed by Dr. John P. Cole, founder and chief surgeon of the International Hair Transplant Institute (IHTI) in Atlanta GA, is strip-scar-free. The Follicular Isolation Technique (FIT) overpass older surgical problems. A special microsurgical instrument extracts individual follicles from the donor zone one by one, creating a virtually undetectable donor area. This way, the patients can wear their hair extremely short in the back without exposing scars.

The new method is also far less invasive than the strip excision, enabling a faster and easier recovery. What is more important, FIT can use follicle extractions from areas where a strip method cannot safely cut. FIT can transplant more hairs than was ever thought possible by using all areas of the scalp and body, like chest, stomach, back and legs, for potential hair sources. Body Hair Transplantation (BHT) via FIT allows this extensive harvesting in multiple regions. Indeed, this procedure has proven numerous results.