Hair Transplant Surgery for Hair Restoration takes hair from the back of the head (donor area) and moves it to the area of hair loss. The transplantation of this hair to a bald area does not change its ability to grow. Donor dominance is the scientific basis for the success of hair transplantation.

Candidates for hair transplant surgery are those individuals with hair loss that have sufficient donor hair from the fringe of the scalp to transplant to the balding area. In the past, many bald patients were not suitable candidates for hair transplant surgery but modern techniques have advanced the art of hair transplant surgery so that many more men are candidates.Hair transplantation surgery has improved in leaps and bounds over the past decade.

The days of the "plugs and corn rows" are gone and the age of single follicular unit hair grafting has arrived. Single hair-grafts have the finest and softest appearance. Although they do not provide much density, they do provide the critical soft hairline that is the transition to thicker hair.

Reconstructing a new hairline is a skill requiring surgical as well as artistic skill. Slightly larger follicular unit groupings containing 2-4 hairs are placed behind the hairline to provide a gradually increasing hair density. 

The side-effects of hair transplantation surgery are relatively minor consisting of mild pain and discomfort after the operation, swelling which may move down to the eyes, and the formation of scabs over the grafts which take approximately one week to resolve. Serious problems of bleeding, scarring, and infection are rare.

Modern hair transplantation surgery is comfortable, predictable, and the results are pleasing to most patients.Hair loss, however, is a life long process; most men will develop male pattern baldness (due to male hormones) until approximately 40-45 years of age. After that, the aging process thins the entire head of hair.

Progressive hair loss or the desire for more density will require more transplant procedures. Modern techniques, however, allow hair transplant surgery specialists of transplant larger number of grafts, greatly reducing the number of procedures needed to complete the result.