Hair Transplant - Strip Method | Plastic Surgery & Hair Clinic

Dr Sundarason hair transplant in singapore

Received his training both in surgery and plastic surgery. He held a post of Senior Lecturer in General Surgery at the Department of Surgery. read more

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Key to the natural look

If you want to achieve the natural look, we recommend the latest technique in hair transplantation, based on “nature’s way”, the follicular unit.

Hair transplantation means transferring the healthy hair from the back and sides of your head to the balding areas. This hair is usually genetically programmed to last into advanced old age, or to put it another way, it will last as long in its new site as it would have in its old site.

The fact that your balding area had no hair on it does not mean it is not good “soil” for hair to grow in. If we take healthy hair from the back or sides, it will grow equally well in the balding area. This fact is of basic importance to the transplantation process.

The second key fact is the size of the grafts that we use. We do not use the larger grafts, known as “plugs”, as experience has shown that these result in an unnatural appearance commonly referred to as “rows of corn”, or “dolls-hair”.

By using sophisticated microscopes (see image below), we can transplant follicular units, which are clusters of one to four hairs. Nature grows your hair in these small follicular units, so that is the way we choose to transplant them. That is nature’s way, and that is also why this method produces the most natural-looking result.

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The natural hairline
The front hairline is the most critical aspect of any surgical restoration. In the past people have equated the look of the transplanted front hairline to that of “rows of corn” or “dolls hair”. Modern surgical methods have allowed us to overcome the shortcomings of the past through the use of two significant changes.

The use of follicular units in the front hairline containing 1 to 2 hairs only and the ability to place them very close together to achieve a high density.
The use of an irregular diffuse wave pattern that mimics a natural hairline with minimal or no hair loss.

The natural hairline is an irregular zone with a soft transition from forehead through sparse, fine hairs to the thicker denser hairs approximately 10 to 15mm behind the front hairline. For many patients, the natural appearance of the front hairline is the single biggest factor in determining the success of the procedure.

The illustration (1.1) clearly shows the type of hairline design that is used in many cases where a total reconstruction of the hairline is required. The first 15mm is constructed out of three distinct zones of varying densities and graft sizes. The use of these three distinct zones allows us to produce the natural results that defy detection as a transplanted hairline.

In most cases the depth of zone 2 can extend to as much as 25mm in the bi-temporal region as is consistently found in mature men with limited or no hairloss.

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Dr. Sundarason has performed many thousands of procedures on the front hairlines of men and women. He has spent many years practicing and refining the procedures that make a truly great hairline, one that doesn’t attract a second glance.

The above comments are general and apply in many cases but not all. There are a number of variables such as age, future hair loss, patient’s features, skin colour, and hair type and colour that will ultimately determine the final shape of the hairline and surgical plan.

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