Hair transplants are complicated procedures. They are expensive and the surgery will have an impact on your body just like other surgeries. Yet, hair transplants can restore part of your hair and make you look better. Before you decide to get one done, make sure you learn about them in advance.

In order to get a good overview of the steps involved in getting a hair transplant, I have compiled a list of three steps that you will likely have to go through when you decide to get a hair transplant done.

1. In hair transplants, hair that is resistant to the balding hormone DHT is transplanted to a balding area of your scalp. This hair is excavated in the form of a strip from the back of your head. On the back of your head, your hair never falls out because it is DHT resistant. You will get anesthesia so you won’t feel a thing when the doctor surgically removes the strip of hair from the back of your head.

2. While you wait, a team of medical staff carefully dissects the strip of hair under microscopes. The hairs are cut up into something called ‘grafts’. These grafts are groups of hair that can either have one, two, three of four hairs. These grafts are the units of hair that will be used in the actual transplant.

3. Once the medical team is done dissecting your hair strip, there is a collection of hair grafts available for transplanting. Before the actual transplant procedure begins, the doctor makes a number of tiny openings in your scalp. He can either use a medical instrument or a precision laser for this. These openings are little wounds that will hold the grafts. Over the next few hours, the medical staff will implant the grafts into the openings.

Those are the three most important steps of a hair transplant. DTH resistant hair is obtained from the back of your head. It’s then cut up into grafts. The grafts are implanted in the openings on your scalp. The openings are wounds that will heal up. In the healing process, the grafts containing your follicles are healed firmly into place.

What is important to keep in mind, is that your transplanted hair will not grow normally right from the start. The catch is that it will first fall out after about two weeks. This is called shock loss. The grafts shed their hairs because of the shock from the operation. This is normal, however. After a few weeks, all your tissue is healed completely and the hair will continue to grow at a normal rate.

Hair transplants can make you look and feel a lot better. But they are not a miracle cure for baldness. The rest of your hair will continue to fall out, so you might have to get more hair transplants in the future. There are many celebrity hair transplant pictures available on the web, so make sure to take a good look before you decide to get one yourself. Also keep in mind that hair transplants are getting better and cheaper all the time. So it can pay off to put them off for a while.

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