To help you get started in your fight against hair loss we will briefly walk you through your hair transplant procedure below. Here you will get the basic idea of what to expect and some illustrations on hair replacement surgery.

   

A hair transplant procedure begins long before our patient arrives for their hair surgery. Our first concern is the comfort of our customer's complete awareness and educated participation in the decision making processes involved with the design of the restoration. We go to great lengths to assure that all areas of the procedure have been covered and that prior to scheduling surgery the patient knows what is going to happen. A simple list of pre-operative instructions are given and begin a week before surgery. The patient arrives, is greeted and made comfortable with a regimen of medications prescribed for his or her individual needs. The surgeon and technical staff ready the patient, escort them to an O.R. and the work begins. We use a method of conscious sedation combined with local anesthesia to insure a pain free experience. From a series of photographs and the consultation notes, the design of the hairline and placement of grafts is laid out. The surgeon harvests the donor strip and makes the recipient sites while the technicians cut the donor strip into micro and mini grafts. These grafts are one, two and three hair units cut microscopically. The team then places the grafts into the recipient sites and the work is finished.

   
There are a number of other hair techniques which are used when the case dictates a different approach. In the next sections some of these procedures are illustrated to simplify them for you.

During the developmental years of the modern hair transplant techniques were used which resulted in an unnatural appearance. Capri Clinic encourages those who are suffering the outcome of these outdated procedures to have us diagnose the problem and prescribe a corrective option. The following drawings will give you an idea of some of these options.