Commonly for patients, the success of hair transplantation simply means the thinning and balding area filled up with newly implanted hair. But that’s not the actual standard outcome because the matter of hair is much more complicated!
Did you know that behind the newly inserted hair grew naturally and densely with the perfect orientation, there stands the expertise, skills, and sophistication of the doctor who has gradually implanted every single hair strand, on the basis of "the right direction and angle", ensuring that it is fit for each different condition of the scalp and hair of each patient?
Why is the “Direction of Hair” important?
As the hair on different region of our scalp like the forehead hairline, hair at the temples, or hair at the crown; have different “directions of hair growth”. In addition, human hair has differences in size, thickness, and also “angle”.
So it depends on how your doctor selects the hair follicles and implants them into your scalp. Let’s picture this! Your transplanted hair grew in all directions without control and it didn’t blend in with your native hair. How would it be?
Most importantly, the final result will not be seen clearly seen in the early days after undergoing hair transplantation. The finished picture of hair direction will be seen when your hair becomes longer. But that is the point of no return. The direction of hair cannot be fixed. It definitely means that you have to live with it the wrong hair direction for the rest of your life.
"Hair direction", the most challenging question for doctors
All of these become a challenging problem for doctors because they are in the middle of various concerns throughout the hair transplant procedure. This can be considered life-time investment.
Direction and Angle
At Namnin, our expert doctor will control the angle, direction and orientation of the hair to ensure that it blends in with the hair on each region of the scalp. This is an important matter especially for "Hair insertion technique", used in solving the thinning hair problem. If the hair is implanted in the wrong direction or orientation, it leads to dissatisfactory result with weird look of hair.
Depth
Depth is a must-concern matter. The hair follicles must be implanted at the appropriate depth to enable the effective delivery of nutrients to the hair. When the hair roots are firmly embedded, the newly grown hair becomes strong and not easy to fall out.
Size
If we observe our scalp in detail, we’ll see that the hair in each region of our head has a noticeable difference in size especially for the frontal hairline. As a result, the surgeon have to gradually insert a new hair into the skin in order of size, from small ones at the hairline, followed by a single hair, then hair grafts (3 – 4 strands each) respectively, so that there’ll be no difference between the original hair and the newly implanted ones.
Strand-by-strand hair transplantation
Believe it or not, the surgeon must work on hair from the beginning to the end, in the manner of strand-by-strand. This covers the hair follicles removal, extraction, and separation by size and grouping, including the angle of hair. Then each selected and harvested hair graft will be carefully implanted one by one.
Now we have understood why the true surgeon always place importance on the "direction of the hair". As the goals of hair transplant are the smiles recalled and the confidence restored, through the beautiful, healthy and natural-looking hair, every single step does matter.
