Hair restoration surgery is usually completed within two to six hours. If a bandage is required after hair restoration surgery, it is removed the following day, at which time many patients return to their normal activities. With the sophisticated micro-surgical techniques of modern hair restoration surgery, many patients do not need a bandage and often clinics do not apply one. As in nature, the hair from the transplanted hair follicles grows slowly.
The hair begins to grow at three months and will continue to grow at the same rate as your natural hair. Results of hair restoration surgery are usually complete and fully visible in eight to twelve months. The transplanted hair will grow forever and does not require special maintenance of any kind. How much hair is restored after hair restoration surgery depends on the patient's degree of hair loss and their desired result. Some needs are met in one hair restoration surgery; the goals of some others may be best achieved over multiple hair restoration surgeries.
The procedure of hair restoration surgery involves removal of a section of skin and hair follicles from the donor area and is then dissected under magnification into individual follicular units and micro-grafts for the hair restoration surgery. Once the thorough preparation of the grafts is complete for hair restoration surgery, artistic approach is used to place them into the thinning or balding areas to create a natural look. As a part of hair restoration surgery, single-hair follicular units are placed at specific but different angles in the frontal hair zone to create a soft, natural looking hairline. Slightly larger follicular units are placed behind the hairline, providing density and volume for the larger balding areas.