Capillary Transplant: What is it, how it is done and postoperative

In recent times, a procedure has been increasingly cited by personalities: The Capillary Transplant . This Thursday (27), it was the turn of the presenter Xuxa, 62, reveal that it sought treatment after being diagnosed with androgenetic alopecia .

Isabela Dupin, dermatologist and member of SBD-Desp (Brazilian Society of Dermatology-Regional São Paulo), explains some of the procedure to treat areas with failures or baldness.

Capillary transplant “consists of removing hair from a region of the body where the hair is more resistant to the fall-usually the back or the sides of the head-and transplant them to areas with little hair density.”

This is because these wires maintain the characteristics of the origin region, and continue to grow normally after transplantation, which ensures a lasting and natural result.

How is the procedure

During a hair transplant, the health professional removes grafts, or small pieces of skin, from areas of the body that contain healthy hair, which is called in medicine as a donor area.

The most common is that this area is at the back of your scalp, where the hair tends to be thicker. The health professional moves the grafts for parts without hair from the scalp. After the transplanted skin heales, the hair begins to grow.

Difference to hair implant

According to Isabela Dupin, “the main difference is at the source of the hair used in the procedure. In hair transplant, the patient’s own hair is used, taken from a healthy donor area. This makes the method safer, natural and low -risk rejection, being the most suitable technique today.”

“The term capillary implant is often used commercially as synonymous with transplantation. However, in some cases, it may refer to the use of artificial wires, which has greater risk of rejection, infection and unsatisfactory results,” he adds.

Nominations

The expert explains that the medical procedure is indicated mainly in cases such as Xuxa, androgenetic alopecia, which is also the most common form of baldness in men.

There are other cases where hair transplantation is also indicated as “in case of a long frontal region (high capillary implantation), scalp scars that prevent the growth of hair, or definitive losses due to trauma or burns”.

“One can also perform eyebrow transplantation and beard. For the success of transplantation, it is important that the patient still has a healthy donor area with a good amount of wires,” adds Dupin.

How is the postoperative

The expert explains that the procedure recovers the bald areas, but does not prevent the wires around them from continuing to be subject to progressive rarefaction.

“Therefore, it is essential to maintain clinical treatment and medical follow -up after transplantation. There is a specific case in which there is no need for drug treatment before and after the hair transplantation, when the indication is for relegation of the capillary line (long forehead). In this case the surgical treatment alone can resolve the patient’s complaint,” he says.

The dermatologist reveals that post care include the use of medications such as finasteride or minoxidil, when recommended by the doctor, as well as nutritional supplementation if there is disabilities.

“It is also important to adopt local scalp care in the first few weeks, wash delicately and avoid sun exposure or physical effort in the early days. In most cases, recovery is quiet, and results begin to appear more evidently between 6 and 12 months after the procedure.”

Preoperative care

Among the preoperative care of a hair transplant are avoiding physical exertion five days before the procedure, avoid alcohol and caffeine three days before and anti-inflammatories ten days earlier.

Other precautions include keeping the scalp clean and protecting the scalp from the sun days before surgery.

This content was originally published in hair transplantation: what it is, how it is done and postoperatively on the CNN Brazil website.

Source: CNN Brasil