Calum Best is a UK celebrity who has modeled for Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein. He has also appeared in reality shows with stars like Paris Hilton and Janice Dickinson. Currently, he is focusing his career on acting and starting his own men’s fragrance line. Like other entertainment professionals, he has relied quite heavily on his physical appearance.
Male pattern baldness started to affect his hairline at the age of twenty three. And it has progressed since then.
Interestingly, he sought help from the same hair transplant doctor as Wayne Rooney. Both men chose Follicular Unit Extraction. Calum’s first procedure was performed about two years ago. And this week, his name has appeared in headlines for undergoing a second procedure.
About FUE
Follicular Unit Extraction is a hair transplant technique where follicles are removed by applying tiny punches directly to the scalp. The wounds that are left are tiny and round. Anytime the skin is punctured or cut, scar tissue can be expected to develop. But with FUE, any scarring that occurs is very slight. And when the donor areas are on the head, they are likely to be covered by hair making them quite unnoticeable.
Here at Dermhair Clinic, Dr. Umar has designed a highly specialized FUE extraction punch called uGraft. One of it’s benefits is the fact that the punch edges are digitally customized to create wounds with special shapes . This causes extraneous tissue around the edges to retract inward, resulting in donor surfaces that do not have any visible signs of bumps or redness. Therefore, the degree of scarring from a Follicular Unit Extraction procedure can be further minimized using the right tools.
Calum Best And His Second Follicular Unit Extraction Procedure
Both Calum Best and Wayne Rooney opted for a second FUE procedure two years following their first. Some people might assume that the results don’t last. But in actually, what is happening is that in some people, their native hair continues to shed. But the inserted grafts stay in place.
Calum explained, “ While the hair transplanted in my previous operation is permanent, I am continuing to lose my natural hair… I had the second procedure because I was so pleased with the first one and how it helped to boost my confidence and work opportunities.”
This phenomenon is also what prompted Wayne Rooney to undergo his second procedure as well.
Not everyone who chooses Follicular Unit Extraction will necessarily need subsequent surgeries, especially if they wait until the rate of their hair loss has reached a stable plateau.
Calum’s doctor, Asim Shahmalak noted that more men are getting hair transplants earlier in life instead of letting themselves suffer for years of low self confidence.
Calum Best’s Insights On Hair Replacement Surgeries
But attitudes towards hair restoration are shifting in a new direction. Calum Best is one who exemplifies a more open and candid stance as he talks about his procedures. He believes there should be no shame or fear about undergoing these procedures, “ Most men just say: ‘Good on them.’ And most women say: ‘Don’t they look better.”
He also credits celebrity FUE patients, Wayne Rooney and James Nesbitt for helping to change old stigmas associated hair restoration surgeries by discussing their experiences publically.
To read more about Wayne Rooney’s second procedure, click here.