In order to address their issues and give their faces a more youthful appearance, many people who struggle with baldness, thinning hair, or a receding hairline may have already begun considering hair transplantation as a permanent solution. The sole barrier, though, is “fear of pain”. Since it’s a medical process, we may unknowingly think of pain. In order to give everyone knowledge, we will go over the procedures involved in hair transplantation in this post, as well as when it will undoubtedly hurt and when we frequently assume it won’t.
Pain during hair transplant
There are two categories of pain that can be distinguished when talking about the pain during hair transplant: pain occurs during the procedure and pain that occurs either immediately following the treatment or after a certain amount of time.
The pain during the procedure is caused by the injection of local anesthesia.
First injection of local anesthesia
We need to provide anesthetic twice during a hair transplant. In order to incise or operate to remove the strong hair follicles, we will first provide anesthesia to make the back of the scalp numb. In order to delineate the donor area, anesthetic will be injected around it. This results in numbness and loss of feeling in the scalp at injection site as well as the surrounding area. The size of the donor area for graft extraction determines the number of injection sites. Injecting anesthetic in several locations will cause pain if the area is vast. The larger the donor area, the more injections of local anesthesia are required and the more painful it is.
Second injection of local anesthesia
The purpose of the second local anesthetic injection is to numb the scalp in preparation for the hair transplant procedure. The anesthetic injection in the recipient area at the front of the head is administered using the same injection technique as the first injection.
The pain after transplant is partly due to the technique used.
The FUT technique involves surgically excising the patientงs scalp, leaving a long incision. With this technique, healing from the surgical excision of the tissue is prolonged. You may experience pain at both donor area and recipient area following the hair transplant due to the broad wound. Additionally, this method leaves the patient with scars.
So what does a less painful technique look like?
The less painful technique must be different from the FUT technique. At BEQ, the DHI, or Long Hair DHI technique is used. This is because DHI and Long Hair DHI hair transplantation only cause discomfort when anesthetic is injected, and patients experience less pain because the extraction of hair grafts involves drilling rather than cutting the scalp. The DHI Implanter’s tiny needle size of 0.6 to 0.8 mm, which is utilized in the grafting and hair transplantation procedures, allows for a small wound at the recipient location and dense, natural hair. DHI simply employs drilling, it doesn’t involve skin cutting. In addition, as because the wound is small, it closes and heals faster. As a result, patients using the DHI procedure do not need to be concerned about pain after a hair transplant.
In conclusion, as mentioned above, the technique and anesthetic injection used during hair transplant determine how painful the procedure is. Each person will experience pain at a different level, making it challenging to compare between individuals. However, you can get in touch with us to speak with the doctor if you’re still unclear about what to do, whether to get a hair transplant, which technique to use, or if you have questions regarding hair issues.
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