In hair transplantation, grafts are taken from certain other parts of your body – your skin. These grafts have to contain hair follicles, and the hair follicles have to be genetically resistant to the balding that is plaguing your scalp. Armed with this, the surgeon will then transplant the skin to the bald scalp. And boy, is it some lengthy process!

A lot of people, when they hear about how difficult hair replacement, prefer to opt out. What they are missing is the fact that this simple but lengthy process is about their best bet for getting their lost hair back. If you ask me, I’d sooner give ten years and live the rest of my life with a full mane, than give it all up and be bald for life.

The very thought of surgery scares the living lights out of most folks. The idea of ‘going under the knife’ is not something that a lot of people like to deal with. So they are happy and excited when they are told that hair replacement is the one process that can get them the hairs that they have lost back; but they shut down when they learn that it is a surgical process. I can understand such fear, but the truth is that hair replacement surgery is not that risky; at least, compared with other types of surgical processes.

If you have had previous hair transplants, you might want to talk to your doc about the possibility of undergoing another series of those. You’d be surprised how many Americans keep such vital secrets from their physicians, and it can only be to their own detriment. If the surgeon does not know how many times you have done it before, they cannot operate with the necessary amount of care needed. The bottom line is that you, not the doc, will be the one to get hurt if you conceal such important information from them.