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The duration of a hair transplant depends on the number of grafts transferred as well as the care given by the surgical team on each surgical manipulation and lastly the difficulty of each individual case. Since usually the limits of a surgical day are used to transfer the most number of grafts, an average session takes the whole day and is about 8-9 hours.
The majority of hair transplant procedures are performed under local anaesthesia. This is similar to having a dental treatment. The first few aesthetic injections might be felt, but the whole surgical field becomes numb for the rest of the procedure, which means that a hair transplant is mostly a painless procedure.
Patients must follow the instructions of their surgeon immediately after surgery, which are pretty basic. Unless something unusual is done, not much could be done to effect the final outcome of the procedure. Hair transplants are relatively safe procedures and the success mostly depends on whatever is done during surgery. The patient has little influence on the result after that.
Depending on each individual case, a hair cut may be possible 1-2 weeks after a hair transplant. A guarded trimmer could also be used 2 weeks later. However, razor-shaving should be avoided after a hair transplant which could be harmful.
The head is usually washed at the clinic the day after surgery. The patient may be instructed to have a shower 1-2 days after surgery depending on the case.
In general, swimming should be avoided for 10-14 days after a hair transplant.
This is a very complicated question. The cost of a hair transplant depends mostly on the quality and the qualifications of the surgical team in the hair transplant center. Most hair transplants in Turkey are done by a pair of unlicensed technicians, which explains why it can be so cheap. Naturally, a surgical team consisting of an experienced surgeon and a few highly trained technicians costs much more. Hair surgery is ‘service’ and estimating the value of hair transplants is very difficult for the patient, because there is a certain threshold of cost where below that, it is possible to get harm with ones own money. This is different than buying an instrument such as a car or a mobile phone when even the cheapest of all guarantees a minimum standard. In Turkey, an all-inclusive price for below 2500-3000 Euro usually means surgery done by unlicensed technicians and no doctor in the hair transplant center. Professionals on the other hand, usually charge by the number of grafts or number of hairs. When comparing prices of two professional hair transplant clinics, one must compare the number of hairs that are mentioned in the quote.
An average session of 2000-2500 grafts or 4000-5000 hairs costs 2500-7500 Euro in Turkey when done by a doctor.
Our prices start from 1.500 Euro. Click here for more information about our prices.
FUT (strip surgery) can be done unshaven. There are a few options for FUE;
When professionally done, it should be impossible to tell that it is a hair transplant result. We are proud to say that none of our previous patients have complained that the result looks unnatural.
The results of a hair transplant are permanent, however since male pattern hair loss is progressive, more transplants may be needed in the future.
Two or three nights stay in Istanbul is sufficient to have a hair transplant.
Of course, flight costs vary significantly according to the place of departure. A long distance flight from North America or Australia can cost 1000-1500 Dollars, whereas a flight from Europe may cost between 100-300 Euro.
Patients can travel back home the day after having a hair transplant.
Eyebrow transplants can be even more sophisticated procedures than hair transplants. The four variables in hair transplants are distribution, density, direction and angle; there is an extra variable that needs to be taken care of in eyebrow transplants and this is ‘curvature’. This extra variable makes eyebrow transplants very sophisticated and thus there are a handful of surgeons in the world that are experts in this field. Dr. K is one of them.
Practically, the most important risk of a hair transplant procedure is ‘failure’, as life-threatening risks are very little. Failure of a hair transplant may be, some or all of the transplanted hairs not growing, donor damage and depletion and an unnatural looking result. Fortunately, most of these risks can be controlled by experienced hair transplant clinics, with the only exception of some of the grafts not taking, which requires a bit of help by the nature. The frequency of this complication must be low and the hair transplantation clinic must have an ethical policy in dealing with this situation. Our patients are guaranteed that if this happens, a free touch-up procedure will be offered or even a refund.
There are no exact age limits for hair transplants, however, age is a very important determinant of estimating the progress of male pattern hair loss. Therefore, age, must change the surgical plan and the younger the age, the more conservative the plan must be. Generally, it would be wrong to transplant a male patient below the age of 20, who has many years of hair loss ahead and the estimation of the progress is very difficult.
All surgical procedures cause scarring. It is a wrong claim that FUE is a scarless procedure and that FUT (strip surgery) causes significant scarring. The only difference is that FUE leaves small punctate scars seen as white dots while FUT leaves a linear scar. The logic behind doing hair surgery is using the camouflage advantage of the hair-bearing scalp which can make these scars close to invisible if the procedure is done professionally.
Once the reservation is made, our driver picks you up from the airport and bring you to a five-star hotel that is next to our clinic. You are accommodated for two or three nights depending on the treatment plan. After the treatment is completed our driver drops you off at the airport.
Transplanted hairs are the patients hair and they behave no differently than the non-transplanted hairs. When done professionally, a transplant should look as natural as non-transplanted hair and any hair style should be possible.
The terms ‘warranty’ or ‘guarantee’ are for instruments and should not be used for surgery. There can be no guarantee of a result and offering this should be considered unethical. Instead, we take ‘responsibility’. This means that we will take responsibility for the treatment we do and do everything to solve a problem if it occurs. We may offer any help to a patient who is not happy with his/her result, including free touch-up procedures or money refunds. We make sure that our patients feel we were fair in dealing with their complaints and err on the side of making an offer even if the complaint does not relate to a failure.
Once we receive pictures of our patient and details on their medical history, we give each candidate our honest opinion on whether it is beneficial to do a hair transplant and also the best method. If we feel that we can not offer a treatment that would give our patient a significant improvement we admit it.
Just like in any other cosmetic surgical procedure, the most important attempt at getting a good result is the first one. The fact that donor hair is limited, makes it even more important that the first surgical treatment is done professionally and valuable donor hair is preserved. We work with one of the leading hair transplant clinics in the world known to do repair surgery, however there are limitations on what can be done after a poor hair transplant especially if the donor area is depleted.
Hair transplants are done fully awake, just like dental surgery.
There aren’t important restrictions with regards to the diet after surgery.
Women can have hair transplants too. However, hair loss in women is more sophisticated that in men as there are many metabolic reasons for hair loss other than male pattern baldness. This requires a thorough investigation of a woman’s condition in order to rule out metabolic and dermatologic conditions which would benefit more from nonsurgical treatments. The exception is traction alopecia seen especially in Afro-women that is not associated with a disease; this condition is perfectly treatable via a hair transplant.
Cash, credit card and bank transfers can be used for payment.
The donor area is where donor hairs are harvested from. It is determined by the surgeon and should be an area that has sufficient density while also away from areas that are effected by male pattern baldness.
The transplanted hair is your own hair which has a normal biologic behaviour. However, in the case when good quality donor hair is transplanted within thinning hair, the transplanted hair may grow at a faster rate due to being in a better biological condition than the existing hair.
The transplanted hair is assumed as being permanent, however in reality, the transplanted hair will stay as long as it is destined to stay. If nonpermanent hairs are transplanted, then they will be lost. The fact that these hairs are transplanted, does not change their life span.
The term ‘donor hair’ implies that these hairs are permanently donated, in other words, permanently moved to another location. They will not grow back at the donor area. This is why it is very important to make a long term surgical plan and use donor hair economically. Donor hair is finite.
If the surgical design allows wearing a light hat without touching the grafts, then a hat may be used immediately after a hair transplant. However, if a hairline procedure is done, it is not usually possible to wear a hat without risking these grafts at the hairline. It is best to wait a couple of days before a light hat is worn. A wooly hat may be worn 7-10 days later and cap may be used 2-3 weeks later.
Body hairs have less favourable biologic characteristics compared to slap hair, such that they grow much slower, they don’t grow very long, they are usually single-haired and their caliber is usually less than scalp hair. Beard hair however mostly resembles scalp hair and gives the best result. Although limited coverage is expected using body hairs, it can be used as an extra resource when there is no or little donor scalp hair available.
An hair transplant session usually takes a full day, that is 8-9 hours. Sometimes a second or third consecutive session may be necessary if the surgical plan includes transplanting a lot of hairs.
The recipient area is usually shaven in order to make the recipient incision making and placement more efficient. Sometimes this can be avoided and more time is spent doing the placement. Strip surgery (FUT), which allows rapid graft harvesting without shaving the donor area, may give the opportunity to do a totally unshaven hair transplant. Sometimes, the recipient area is not shaven in FUE too.
There is no adjunct treatment that has proven benefits in combination with or after a hair transplant. Some hair transplant clinics use PRP, but reports about its benefits are mixed.
We usually see the patient the day after surgery for washing, bandage removal and instructions, however there isn’t much to check or change about the procedure done.
Beard transplants are done by harvesting donor hair from the scalp to restore the beard and moustache.
It is possible to do hair transplants for Afro-patients. However, it is more technically challenging and therefore should be done by experts.
Due to the kinky nature of the hair, it is technically much more challenging to do FUE on Afro-hair, although by using a larger punch and taking more time to extract a smaller number of high quality grafts, it may be possible.
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