Can Hair Transplant Lead To Scarring After Surgery?

Hair transplant is the popular choice of the people having abrupt hair fall before their age. This surgical method can improve not only the physical appearance of the person but also the emotional well being and can boost up confidence level.

Although this method of hair restoration is the effective one still can cause mild to severe scarring of scalp depending on the extent of the problem and technique used for hair transplantation. Even the choice of the surgeon can also make the difference. Before understanding about the hair transplant scarring it is important to understand what hair transplant is and how its techniques can cause mild or severe scarring.

What is hair transplantation?

Hair transplant is the surgical method which is based on the basic principles that hair follicles can survive and grow in the body even after their repositioning on the scalp. Hair transplant in Vizag is done with two popular methods that are FUE hair transplant and FUT hair transplant.

In FUE hair transplant individual hair follicles are extracted and transplanted in the bald areas whereas in FUT hair transplant method strip of hair follicles is removed and after their dissection in natural grouping the, hair grafts are transplanted in the bald areas.

The possibility of hair transplant scarring

However the method of surgical hair restoration is claimed as the scar-free method but the patient can have mild to severe scarring after the surgery depending on the factors like the doctor’s experience and efficiency, the technique used for surgery, scalp laxity and even the healing ability of body can also contribute to the potential risk of surgery.

1. If your surgeon is trained and experienced then he can understand that hair transplantation is science and art both so by utilizing his state of art he can minimize your scars as his best efforts can enable him to extract hair follicles without damaging the scalp and even he could extract the follicles in a manner that patient could not have obvious scarring
2. In FUT surgery, the patient can have linear scarring due to strip removal of hair follicles but in FUE surgery patient can have only tiny scaring at the places from where the individual grafts are plucked. Scars caused by FUE surgery get fade away in some time whereas the linear scar caused by FUT method can take the longest time to go and even sometimes remain on scalp for the lifetime.
3. If the person has loose skin then it can be easy to extract hair follicles so there are quite fewer chances for the scars and opposite to it with the tighter skin extraction process can be difficult so the person can have chances of visible scars after surgery.
4. If the patient‘s body can get healed fast then in a few days you could see that scars and wounds get healed and the patient can have the scalp without visible scars.