To hide their baldness, some men are willing to do anything, including hair transplants.
“For fifty years we have taken hair from the back of the head to transpose it to areas affected by baldness
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explains Doctor Sydney Ohana, honorary president of the French Society of Aesthetic Surgery.
Over the past fifty years, these transplants have continued to improve.
They now give a natural effect to the hair transplanted.
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The principle is simple.
The hair of the so-called Hippocratic crown (around the skull) remains alive throughout life.
The purpose of the transplants is to remove these “immortal” hair bulbs and to reimplant them in the bald areas.
New methods to avoid the "leek field" effect
The first attempts in the 1970s aimed to stretch the scalp still provided with hair to bring it up to the hairless area, a painful technique, unsuitable for severe baldness, with poor aesthetic results.
"In the 1980s, surgeons opted for the implantation on the skull of small islets of ten to fifteen hairs, every 4 mm", says Dr. Ohana, plastic surgeon.
The effect was not terrible, with a scarred skull reminiscent of a "field of leeks".
Then appeared the technique known as FUT (Follicular Unit Transplant).
"It is a question of taking a strip of scalp 15 cm long, at the back of the skull, to take micrografts of three or four hairs to reimplant them", details our specialist.
At the cost of a long scar on the scalp.
The latest process, FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction), recently imagined by Koreans, is the benchmark.
“Under local anesthesia, each hair bulb is extracted one by one, then reimplanted, continues Dr. Ohana, scar-free, using very precise instruments and microscopic incisions.
These transplants are long, very expensive (between 3,500 and 10,000 euros depending on the baldness), but with generally satisfactory results.
It is also possible, let us not forget, to live bald and happy.
