Restoring Your Hair and Confidence Through Hair Transplantation: With 40 million men experiencing baldness in the United States, it may be a common problem; but it’s no less humiliating. Androgenic alopecia, or pattern baldness, is typified by the hairline receding at the temple points and/or baldness on the vertex of the scalp. Male pattern baldness can begin as early as the late teens.

Restoring Your Hair and Confidence Through Hair Transplantation? Baldness Aggravators

Male pattern baldness is a genetic condition that can be worsened by other preventable factors, such as:

Drug abuse
Sleep deprivation
Infection
Stress
Malnutrition
Bad blood circulation

These added irritants are easy to avoid with a healthy diet and lifestyle, ample sleep, and the right vitamin and mineral supplements.

The Basics Of Hair Transplantation

Many men have resolved their pattern baldness—and restored their confidence—through hair transplantation. But all hair transplantation methods were not created equal. Some are better than others. Here is a quick rundown of the two most popular hair transplantation techniques:

Strip Surgery Hair Transplantation

Also known as follicular unit strip surgery, or FUSS, this technique has become known as the “traditional” method of hair transplantation. Using FUSS traditional hair transplantation technique, a surgeon will excise a strip of flesh from the donor area of the scalp, being the mid-back of the head. That wound is closed and stitched, and the flesh taken for donor hair is then divided up into follicular units—natural groups consisting of one to four hairs. The follicular units are subsequently implanted into the balding area of the scalp. This hair transplantation method is known for leaving an obvious and embarrassing linear “strip scar” in the donor area and for resulting in a harsh hairline.

FUE Hair Transplantation

Follicular unit extraction, or FUE, is now the gold standard of hair transplantation. This technique requires a more advanced practitioner with a higher skill set, as FUE hair transplantation is a more labor intensive and precise. With FUE Hair transplant, the surgeon makes miniscule incisions around the carefully selected follicular units—one by one to avoid creating a linear scar. Each unit is extracted for transplant to the balding area. FUE hair transplantation leaves no linear scar, only tiny individual scars that are hardly visible once healed. FUE hair transplantation is also a less invasive surgery, which minimizes recovery time. An additional advantage to this technique is that it opens up the possibilities to body hair transplantation in the hands of expert and advanced FUE practitioners like Dr. Umar, infinitely widening the pool of donor hair for severely bald men.