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Hair implants to treat baldness and balding have gone through several stages and have now reached a technological level that offers a thick head of hair with little pain and discomfort. Originally, back the middle 1950’s when hair implants to treat baldness were first being used, the method of choice was the plug method. >This type of implant was exactly what the name implied. A round plug was removed from the scalp at the back of the head because hair usually continues to grow in this area even if the patient is experiencing dramatic hair loss at the top of the head.These plugs, which each contained about 10-15 hairs, were then inserted into incisions in the bald spot.

As you can imagine, these hair plugs did not offer a very natural look as the patient ended up with groups of hair sticking out every which way. Most people claimed the results actually looked a lot worse than the balding because now not only was the hair loss noticeable but the attempt at treatment was also noticeable. At this time though this was the only method of male hair implants available.

Now fast forward 50 years and we have a completely different way to treat baldness with hair implantation. The follicular unit extraction method allows the surgeon to remove individual follicle units along with all the associated supportive structures including the sebaceous glands, the adventitial sheath and the nervous and blood supply systems. This can be done without an incision which removes scalp but by a small medical device which makes a hole less than one millimeter is size. The resulting wound looks like a pin prick and heals within a few days.

By manipulating individual follicular units physicians can now successful perform hair implants for women procedures where before this was not possible because of the thinning hair problems women normally experience over their entire heads.