WHAT IS A HAIR TRANSPLANT?

Hair transplant doctors explain that surgical hair restoration surgery, can help both men and women who are experiencing hair loss. Thinning hair can often be treated by doctors and hair transplant surgeons using advanced surgical techniques. Select doctors in Phoenix specializing in surgical hair restoration offer patients minimally invasive treatment options. Transplantation procedures involve surgeons harvesting follicles from parts of the patient's head where the hair’s density is greater, to transplant to parts of the scalp with less density/.

Hair transplant surgery is often recommended as a way that surgeons can successfully treat baldness caused by changes in hormones, age, genetics, or the use of specific medications in both men and women.

Transplant patients are often men and women suffering from pattern baldness, however burn victims, cosmetic surgery patients and others who experience trauma-related hair-loss can also benefit from surgical restoration.



Patients Have Choices

While many doctors recommend transplantation surgery as the best way to replace thinning hair, several other treatments are available, with some patients responding to over-the-counter shampoos or products such as prescription drugs.

Hair Transplant Surgery

Hair transplants have come a long way over the years. Older forms of treatment often produced an unnatural look due to unsophisticated surgical techniques, which left patients with the look of what referred to as hair plugs, and poor hair density along with unnecessary scarring on the scalp.

These less-than-desirable results, which also produced hair that would grow in at odd angles, led many patients who could benefit from the advanced forms of transplant surgery available today—to opt for other less effective treatments for their baldness.

Lateral Slit Technique For Hair Transplant

Today’s surgical hair replacement techniques can provide men and women extremely natural looking results, with select surgeons placing greater emphasis on restoring a patient’s natural hair line. One of the most advanced surgical treatment options that doctors use is called the lateral slit technique. This procedure involves specially trained doctors transplanting hair by placing small hair grafts into tiny incisions at a variety of different angles to blend with the patient's naturally growing hair. A highly skilled surgeon will often use custom cut surgical blades in combination with the lateral slit procedure, thus surgical instruments are smaller and customized for each patient’s individual needs. Smaller blades enable doctors to have more control over the size, shape, depth, and direction of each individual incision, and graft placement. Some hair transplant doctors in Arizona also use these types of blades because they cause less trauma to the scalp, allowing for individual grafts to be placed closer together, often between existing hairs, allowing for greater density and what many feel are the best before and after results.

What You Should Look For Before Choosing a Surgeon

It is extremely important for prospective patients to find a specialist that they feel comfortable with, and who can demonstrate their knowledge of advanced surgical transplanting techniques. Ask the doctors you meet with about their certifications as well as membership in respected medically recognized organizations. Make sure that the doctors you meet with take the time to answer all of your questions and are able to provide you with detailed before and after photos that demonstrate the quality of their results.

Dr. Scott F. Alexander is a Phoenix area surgical hair transplant specializt.  With an artistic eye Dr. Alexander combines his unique artistry with advanced technical skills to provide patients with quality natural looking hair transplants. 

Dr. Alexander performs his surgical hair restoration procedures using refined techniques such as the lateral slit technique allowing for closer placement transplanted hairs for a fuller more natural looking outcome. 

The surgical team at Biltmore Surgical Hair Restoration is dedicated exclusively to performing Ultra Refined Follicular Unit, Hair Transplantation Follicular Unit Extraction(FUE).

Dr. Alexander treats hair loss in both men and women, using what are called ultra refined follicular unit grafts, custom cut surgical blades and the lateral slit technique to achieve the best hair density possible.