11 procedures, three departments
Surgical transplantation, facial work, and the non-surgical treatments that defend the hair you still have. Each page explains the technique, who it suits and — just as importantly — who it does not.
Department
Follicular unit extraction performed by the operating surgeon — with sapphire-tipped blades or Choi implanter pens.
Finer channels, denser placement, faster healing.
Follicular units are extracted one by one and placed into channels opened with a sapphire-tipped blade. Because the crystal edge is smoother and narrower than steel, channels can be made closer together and the scalp closes faster.
Channel and graft in a single motion with the Choi implanter.
In Direct Hair Implantation, each follicle is loaded into a hollow pen and implanted in one motion — no channels are opened in advance. Grafts spend less time outside the body, and the surgeon controls the angle graft by graft.
Leave looking the way you walked in.
Grafts are extracted from beneath existing hair that's left long enough to cover the donor area. No visible sign anything was done — ideal for someone who works in front of people and can't disappear for two weeks.
Diffuse thinning needs a different plan from male-pattern recession.
Female-pattern hair loss usually thins the whole top of the head rather than receding in an M shape. That changes everything — diagnosis first, then donor strategy, and the surgical plan last.
Curved follicles need a different punch and a slower hand.
Afro-textured follicles curl beneath the skin. A standard punch angled for straight hair cuts right through them. This isn't a marketing category — it's a technical specialty.
Fixing what someone else got wrong.
Pluggy grafts, a hairline drawn too low or too straight, visible scars, depleted donor areas. Revision is the hardest work in this field, because you're solving a problem with whatever resources the first surgeon left behind.
Department
Beard, mustache and eyebrow transplants — areas where angle and density decide whether the result looks natural.
Sparse patches filled at the angle a beard actually grows.
Scalp follicles are moved to the cheeks, chin or mustache. Facial hair exits the skin at a much flatter angle than scalp hair — get that wrong and it grows outward like a bristle brush.
A few hundred grafts, each one placed individually.
Eyebrows are the least forgiving transplant on the body. Every hair is visible, the angles change along the brow, and there's nowhere for a misplaced follicle to hide.
Department
Non-surgical treatments that slow shedding, strengthen existing hair and support the result of a transplant.
Your own platelets, concentrated and returned to the scalp.
Blood is drawn, centrifuged to separate the platelet-rich portion and injected into thinning areas. The growth factors it carries can extend the growth phase of follicles that are miniaturizing but not yet dead.
Vitamins, peptides and amino acids delivered straight into the scalp.
A personalized cocktail of micro-injections is placed directly into the dermis to reach the follicle while bypassing the circulation. It's used to improve scalp condition and support follicles under stress.
The newest option — and the one we explain most carefully.
Exosomes are cell-signaling vesicles applied to the scalp to influence follicular activity. Early results are promising, the research base is still young — and we say so openly.
Eleven procedures across three departments sounds like more choice than it is. In practice the decision tree is short, and most patients can place themselves on it before they speak to anyone.
Surgical hair transplantation, facial transplantation and hair health are grouped separately because they answer different questions. Surgery moves follicles into an area that has none. Facial work is technically surgery too, but the design constraints are entirely different — flatter angles, single-hair grafts, and an area people look at directly in conversation. Hair health treatments do not move anything; they defend hair that is still present.
The most common planning mistake is treating these as alternatives. A transplant and a medical plan are not competing options for the same patient — they target different hair. Surgery restores an area; treatment protects everything around it. A plan with only one of the two usually needs a second operation sooner than it should.
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