Hair transplant: Surgery scars and ways to deal with them
Sometimes the fear of scarring is enough to keep people from getting a hair transplant; even those who are sure of getting it, are anxious about the scars. Given the advertising and marketing clout of transplant clinics, hair transplant procedures are often advertised as no-scar procedures. And that might not be true. Even though hair restoration is very technologically advanced; the truth is there is some amount of scarring because it is a surgery. Biologically speaking, a scar signifies the process of wound repair on the skin and other tissues. Scarring is absolutely natural, and a part of the healing process. Which is not to say that you should have big scars from hair transplant, but some amount of scarring is inevitable. Ideally the scarring from the transplant should be minimal, and it can be ensured by carefully choosing an experienced and reputable surgeon for the procedure. It also depends on the technology used to extract hair follicles from the donor areas of the scalp...