Hair Restoration in Bangkok
Hair transplantation is performed as an out patient surgery
under twilight local anesthetic. You will be discharged 15 minutes after the
procedure is completed. The procedure usually lasts 4-8 hours depending on
the amount of grafts being transplanted.
Modern techniques of surgical hair transplantation can restore lost hair and
replace or re-shape your hairline with your own natural, growing hair, which
needs no more care than the ordinary washing, styling, and trimming you have
always done. Transplantation can be done today so well that often a barber
or stylist cannot even tell that grafts have been placed.
Hair transplantation involves removing permanent hair-bearing skin from the
back and/or sides of the scalp (donor area). Then, using magnification, the
tissue is dissected into follicular unit grafts (containing 1-4 hairs each).
These small grafts are then meticulously planted into the bald or thinning
area of the scalp (recipient area) so as not to injure any follicles already
existing in the area and at the same exact angle as the other hairs present.
The creation of very small follicular unit grafts has
enabled the hair surgeon to create very natural, feathered hairlines, which
do not have the abrupt, "pluggy look" that was commonly seen in hair
transplants of years past. I prefer to transplant exclusively with
follicular unit grafts, while others feel that placing the multi-follicular
unit grafts into the central areas of the scalp allows them to better create
central density. Depending on the degree of balding in the frontal,
mid-scalp, and vertex (crown) areas, usually 2-3 procedures are performed,
with the number of grafts used varying tremendously, based on the area of
potential alopecia, the patient's "safe" donor supply, the textural
characteristics of the patient's hair, whether or not multi-follicular unit
grafts are used in addition to follicular unit grafts, and the specific
goals of the patient.
Hair transplant surgery today is remarkably well tolerated.
Within 24 hours small crusts will form on each graft that are then shed in
approximately 4-14 days. The grafted hairs will often start to grow by 10-16
weeks after the procedure and will continue to grow for most, if not all, of
one's life. (As men and women age, in many there is a slight loss of hair
density all over the head, which would naturally also affect the
transplanted hairs).
The regular cost is 120 Baht/graft with a discount for a
larger numbers of grafts.
500 grafts 60,000 Baht
1,000 grafts
112,500 Baht
1,500 grafts 157,500 Baht
2,000 grafts 195,000 Baht
2,500 grafts
225,000 Baht
3,000 grafts 247,500 Baht
Above 3,000
grafts 80 Baht per graft
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Example:
Recipient
area Donor area
Based on this patient’s photographs the rough estimate
of Dr. Pathomvanich is about 2,500 – 3,000 grafts, more or less depending on
the hairline desired. The lower the hairline, the higher the number of
grafts needed. This would cost between 225,000 to 247,500 baht.
Hair Transplantation is on an out patient basis, with no
need to stay in the hospital. The patient can go back to his hotel after the
surgery (observation about ½ hour).
The process of Hair Transplantation is as follows:
Day 1 for Initial consultation
Day 2 for surgery
Day 3
for follow up and shampoo.
The patient may go back to his country on this day or may stay a few days;
it's up to the patient
Donor Area – invisible scar
We
routinely use trichophytic donor area closure together with our low
transaction rate technique which leaves in an almost invisible donor scar in
most patients.
