Hair Transplants Scar Repair

Usually, after the hair transplants, your scalp will end up with scars. Just like any surgery, this is not avoidable not matter how careful the surgeons are. With professional hands, the scars can appear to be less obvious.

In hands of skilled surgeons, they choose a proper site to harvest donor tissue for hair growth. The width of the donor site is less than one centimeter. With this small width, the scalp can close totally after the stitching.

Provided the surgery goes smoothly, nobody can notice the scar with their naked eyes. The scar will only be apparent if you are susceptible to keloid scarring. Then you need a special scar repair.

Your doctors often explain to you the risk of scarring if they are aware that you are vulnerable to keloid scarring. But not all doctors will do that for the fear that you may want to back out from the hair loss treatment.

They will also discuss some options with you on how to cover the keloid. You can have longer hair which can cover the scar.

Some patients have stretchable skin which can widen the donor scars if over stretched. Both of these groups represent 5% of the patients who undergo hair transplant.

The remaining 95% have nothing to worry about scars. The surgeons always make sure that the donor strips are very thin. In addition, they use a double layer closure method for the skin to heal quickly.

The surgeons can minimize the possibility if they know what they doing.

Scarring also occur when you go through multiple hair replacement surgeries. Every time the transplantation needs grafts, the doctors have to take a new strip of donor tissue. This looks like you are going to have many scars on the back and sides of the head.

Fortunately, the scarring is only as wide as one thin line, thanks to the technique of transplant. The surgeons cut the new donor strip exactly above the current scar. This helps to remove old scars at the same time. During the suture, the whole area of both old scar and the new cut are stitched into one line. This is a common procedure that doctors use when they perform multiple hair grafting.

Now you know that you will get scars with hair transplants. That is why you need reliable surgeons because the visibility of the scar depends on their skilled hands.