• AFTER THE INTERVENTION: THE OPERATING SUITES
There must be a stop job size of 4 to 8 days. For micrografts, forms a small bar on each graft falling between 8 to 10 days. The transplanted hair
fall with the crust and then push between the second and third months. They grow to 1 cm
months. In cuts, shreds and lifting the scalp, the hair does not fall and son will be removed to the eighth day.
Shampoos are generally allowed 48 hours after the operation.
The practice of sport can be resumed gradually from the fourth postoperative week.
The type of headache pain may persist for a few days, they will be relieved by prescription painkillers.
The postoperative course is essentially marked by the appearance of edema (swelling) and ecchymosis (blue) whose magnitude and duration are highly variable from one individual to another.
• THE RESULT
Within 3 to 6 months is needed to assess the results of micro-grafts and in all cases at least two interventions will be needed to obtain a sufficient density of hair.
For other techniques, the result is immediate.
• FAULTS OF THE RESULT
called reasonably expect. This is a lack of density after Micrografts or uneven distribution of hair after a flap
• POSSIBLE COMPLICATIONS
Correction of baldness, although carried out mainly for aesthetic reasons, not least is a real surgery, which involves
risks associated with any medical procedure, however small it may be. We must distinguish the complications of anesthesia and those related to the surgery.
* For general anesthesia, during the consultation, the anesthetist inform himself (the) patient (e) of anesthetic risks. You should know that anesthesia in the body sometimes unpredictable, and more or less easy to control: the fact of using a fully qualified anesthetist working in a surgical context, that the risks are now almost statistically insignificant.
You should know, indeed, that the techniques, anesthetics and monitoring methods have made tremendous progress over the past twenty years, providing maximum security, especially when the operation is performed outside of the emergency and in a healthy person.
* Regarding the surgery: choosing a qualified and competent plastic surgeon, trained in this type of surgery, you limit these risks, without removing them completely.
Fortunately, the real complications are rare following a procedure performed in the rules. In practice, the vast majority of happens without any problems and the patient (s) are fully satisfied (s) of their income.
However, despite their rarity, you should be aware of possible complications:
- Hair loss 2-3 weeks after surgery on the outskirts of the grafted area is very common. It is temporary rule.
- Bruising: mostly harmless, they can be removed if they are too large.
- Infection: Outstanding during an operation of the scalp, apart from a few micro-abscesses developed on a stitch and easily handled by small local care.
- Abnormal healing: very rare at the donor graft areas.
- Epidermal Cyst: They can appear on the transplanted hair and often eliminate spontaneously. Otherwise, they are easy to remove and do not compromise the quality of the final result.
- A temporary alopecia: can occur on a flap. It appears to the third week and can be more or less important. When hair growth, they have a look and a normal density.
- Skin necrosis: is sometimes observed in the flap techniques, limited and localized rule. Significant necrosis are, in fact, exceptional. Prevention of these necrosis is a well-posed indication and the achievement of a technical gesture careful suited.
The use of a qualified Plastic Surgeon ensures that it has the training and skill required to avoid these complications, or effectively treat as appropriate.
CONCLUSION ON GENERAL SURGERY HAIR LOSS
Surgery for baldness has made breakthroughs that allow today, in many cases, to provide a technical and a suitable therapeutic strategy and solve well, or simply by Micrografts or by other techniques, the main problems posed by cosmetic hair loss in men as well as women.
These are the pieces of information that we wanted to bring you in addition to the consultation. We recommend that you keep this document, read it again after the consultation and reflect "a clear head." This reflection may raise new questions for which you wait for additional information. We are available to talk during the next consultation, or by phone, or even on the day of surgery when we meet in any way before anesthesia.