Hair Restoration and Replacement

There are all kinds of products on the market that claim you can get your hair back by using their secret formula instead of having a hair transplant. If you are just experiencing hair loss and still have hair in the thinning area then some of these products can help you. They can stop further loss and even revitalize some hair follicles to start to re-grow hair once again. But if your balding problems have gotten to the point that there is no hair, or only peach fuzz, in certain areas of your scalp then you are going to be forced to have some sort of hair transplant or hair implant procedure if you want to have growing in this area again.

With current technology, a cosmetic surgeon can do a procedure in an afternoon that can give you energetic hair follicles in the bald area so you will have hair growing their once again. Of course the cost of hair transplant surgery can be stumbling block for some people but when you weigh the one time cost of hair transplants against the ongoing cost of hair loss products and the stress that comes with baldness the costs really even out.

Don’t get me wrong hair transplant surgery costs can be pretty substantial but one has to look at what the value of a head of hair is. Do you want to be thought of as ten to fifteen years older than you really are? This is, on average, how bald and balding guys are viewed. Unfortunately, in our culture a man’s hair and the amount he has is a big marker as to how virile and powerful he is. Who can put a price on that?

One new idea that is helping a lot of men afford hair transplant surgery is to have a low cost hair transplant procedure done overseas. There are several countries that have very active cosmetic surgery vacation programs. In particular, Brazil and Thailand are noted for there plans that incorporate hair implantation procedures with a vacation in a luxury resort. You can unwind in luxury while you have new, youthful hair implanted into your balding spots. No one needs to know what you were doing on vacation other than having a great time. Getting hair transplants in Brazil or hair transplants in Thailand is a great low cost hair implant option that should be considered. And if you are worried about the skill of the surgeons you should know that the majority are trained in the US and Europe under some of the best programs in the world.

The fact is, the hair transplant cost in Canada and the hair transplant cost in the US are going to be much higher than in some of these other countries. The overhead is much lower overseas but the care is absolutely amazing and you will be pampered like never before.

In the US you can expect a hair transplant cost per graph of between three and seven dollars. Some of the things that determine this are the geographical location of the clinc and the fame of the doctor. Be sure you ask for names of other patients you can contact when you are deciding on which clinic or doctor to visit. You don’t want to skimp on price and end up with a botched job that makes you look worse than if you were bald.

As far as how many hair transplant graft are needed this depends on several factors. One of the big determiners is the size of the area that is balding. It goes without saying that the larger the area to be treated the most grafts that will be needed. Another big factor is the hair color versus scalp color. If your hair color is close to the color of your scalp then less hairs are needed to give the appearance of coverage. The worst case scenario is a patient with black hair and a very light colored scalp. This will take quite a few more individual implant grafts to cover than someone with less contrast.

In general, you can expect to have between several hundred and a few thousand individual hair transplant grafts implanted based on your individual factors. The cost of hair transplant surgery is not cheap but when you consider the social pain caused by being bald and the cost of hair loss products over the next twenty years the price becomes quite attractive.