Transplantation capillaire

Indication

L’alopécie androgénétique, également appelée « perte de cheveux constitutionnelle », est le type de perte de cheveux le plus courant et touche au moins 80% des hommes et 50% des femmes âgés de 70 ans, avec une incidence qui augmente avec l’âge.

Causes

La cause la plus fréquente de l’alopécie est génétique. Les autres causes de perte de cheveux, telles que les maladies sous-jacentes (certains cancers, troubles nutritionnels, maladies de la peau et de la thyroïde) et la prise de certains médicaments, doivent être exclues avant de planifier une transplantation capillaire.

Parcours

Meistens beginnt der Haarausfall schon in den späten Teenagern oder frühen Zwanzigern. Androgenetische Alopezie entwickelt sich in der Regel langsam.

Hommes

In men, it usually begins with a receding hairline or a thinning tonsure area.

Women

Women usually present with diffuse hair loss in the tonsure area, whereby the front hairline is usually left out and the change often only occurs during the menopause, although it can also be earlier.

Suffering pressure

Hair loss can be very uncomfortable, especially for self-esteem in social interactions. Studies suggest that hair loss in men often leads to great emotional distress, anxiety and stress. A third of women with hair loss suffer from symptoms of depression.

Traitement

A hair transplant offers a permanent solution for bald patches where hair does not normally grow back. The hair that is taken from the back and sides of the head for transplantation is genetically programmed differently to the lost hair and is therefore not susceptible to androgenetic alopecia.

Strategy

If you decide to have a hair transplant, you should be aware that hair loss can progress to other areas of the head and that future corrective transplants may be necessary.

In order to avoid permanent and irreparable damage and to achieve good and natural long-term results, the treatment plan must be drawn up with the utmost care, anticipation and individualized technical and strategic planning. Sometimes this means that several hair transplants have to be performed at different intervals over time.

I take great care to only offer hair transplants to patients whose hair loss has stabilized, although I always leave sufficient reserves, especially for younger patients.

Warning: cheap alternatives

Large volume hair transplants performed improperly by low-cost clinics are not only a bad idea due to the risk to the patient, but also cause permanent irreparable damage. This damage is usually caused by the following factors, unfortunately often in combination:

1. Schlechte Planung: Unnatural hairlines and depletion of the donor area in one operation, with risk of “moth-eaten aspect”.

2. Schlechte Technik: Arbitrary graft selection and unnatural implantation direction as well as rough manipulation of the grafts lead to poor hair quality and loss of grafts.

3. Schwere Komplikationen: e.g. necrosis (loss of part of the scalp), can occur more frequently due to incorrect indication and technique.

I strongly recommend that you make the decision to have a hair transplant carefully, as a botched hair transplant can be worse than going bald.

Please do not fall into the discount trap with offers that are often created illegally by laypersons or under the responsibility of doctors without appropriate plastic surgery training.

Removal technology

Partly influenced by misleading marketing, often poorly performed suturing techniques and greater complexity, the FUT technique has been largely overtaken in popularity by the FUE technique.

The claim that FUE is superior to FUT is false. Both techniques have their advantages and disadvantages. Which technique is best depends on the individual patient and their wishes and should not be based on the technical ability of the surgeon.

FUT-Technique In the FUT (Follicular Unit Transplantation) technique, a strip of hair is extracted from the back of the head, leaving a long, thin scar hidden by the hair. FUE-Technique FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction) is the individual harvesting of hair follicles (grafts) and leaves behind many, albeit barely visible, scars.

Résultat

We are not competing for the largest possible number of grafts. The number of grafts says nothing about the quality of the result. The art of an aesthetically long-lasting hair transplant is to achieve the best possible natural result with the smallest possible number of grafts.

Careful planning and meticulous execution of the hair transplant, combined with the highest standards of patient hygiene and safety, can lead to a spectacular, quality of life enhancing, and long-lasting result, with minimal complications.

We will be happy to discuss whether you are suitable for a hair transplant in a consultation.