The hair transplant procedure is a safe and effective option for many people with thinning hair or baldness. On the day of your hair transplant procedure, PAI Medical Group’s hair transplant physician will sit down with you and evaluate where you are with your hair loss, where you want to be with your hair restoration, and what it is going to take to get you there. The doctor, a hair transplant patient himself, understands the unique concerns you have about the procedure and will take great care to meet or exceed your expectations through hair transplantation and your overall experience with PAI Medical Group.
The procedure typically takes from 3 to 5 hours to complete. During this time, multiples of thousands of hairs will be moved from your donor site to your thinning or balding areas. Great care is taken to ensure that the procedure is completed in the shortest time possible because of hair attrition. Hair attrition is a condition where some of the hair that is transplanted “dies-off” before it is transplanted back into the scalp. Typically, procedures lasting longer than 6 hours result in a high % of hair attrition.
During the hair transplant procedure permanent hairs are harvested from the back and sides of the head. Because of the overabundance of permanent hairs in these areas, this hair is never missed. A suture will be used to close the donor site. The suture will be hidden under the hair in the back and sides (note: the suture may be visible in patients with especially short hair). Your suture will be removed 10-days following the procedure. You can have your sutures removed in the Nashville center or closer to home -if you live some distance from the center.
The hairs that are transplanted will be cut very short before they are placed back into your scalp. Once the short hair and the attached hair seed (papilla) are placed in your thinning or balding areas they will begin to “take-root.” Generally, the short hairs -not the hair seeds- will shed within a few weeks following the procedure. Then, the transplanted hair seeds will begin making and growing new hairs. These new hairs will begin appearing 3 to 5-months after the procedure.
With PAI Medical Group Nashville’s grafting procedures, there are no bandages after the procedure. Patients enjoy this sense of freedom and can immediately see the short hairs that have been transplanted.
While some people may not be candidates for hair transplantation, with new harvesting techniques, more people are candidates than ever before. With PAI Medical Group’s exclusive Multi-Unit Hair Graft™ procedure, more hair can be transplanted in a single procedure than “Follicular-unit” transplanting. For you, this means less time away from work, fewer procedures, and a smaller financial investment.
Note on additional options: PAI Medical Group Nashville has a professional relationship with Hair Club Nashville. Through this relationship, PAI Medical Group Nashville can offer other viable options to those who are not ready or are not candidates for hair transplantation.
