Every single follicle of hair on the human scalp is genetically programmed before birth to either become sensitive to the male hormones which begin to appear during puberty.
This causes the follicle to wither and die in time, or not to become sensitive to these hormones and continue growing throughout one’s lifetime. Lifelong hair follicles are found in good supply in virtually all men, even severely bald men. These lifelong hairs are concentrated in a horseshoe-shaped area at the very back of the head. This area is called the “donor area”. Hair transplantation surgeons take excess hairs, follicles and all, from this plentiful area and relocate them to areas of thinning and balding on the top or front of the head.
Far more complex are
the artistic demands that hair transplantation places on the physician.
Among the finest of arts, hair transplantation requires a deep interest
in re-imagining a brand new hairline zone that complements a patient's
specific facial features, age, and lifestyle. Of course, your approval
of our strategy for your hair is an absolute must, and will be your
doctor's central guide in tailoring your new hairline. Your doctor
will choose a suitable segment from the donor area, and an appropriate
variety of follicular units.
Each graft is then
skillfully placed in a proper position, at a precise angle that
duplicates nature's own growth pattern. Your Bosley physician concludes
the restoration by carefully checking that your newly-placed hairs will
grow together to form a hairline that is virtually undetectable from one
that nature might have given you.
The scientific and
artistic techniques that Dr. Bosley has been perfecting since 1963 allow
his surgeons to recreate soft, natural, living hairlines that are
virtually indistinguishable from the original hairlines that have eroded
away. Finished Bosley hairlines are usually so soft and natural, they
don't have to be hidden by hair combed over in the front. The extreme
close-up photographs below are of Bosley patient hairlines which were
created on balding skin.
Hair transplant surgery
has improved tremendously over the last 20 years and the days of hair
plugs with "barbie-doll" hair results are long-gone and remain a part of
hair transplant history.
