After bad hair restoration surgery, can you use lasers or electrolysis to remove the transplanted hair?
G.A. – New York, NY A: Electrolysis does not work well, because the follicular anatomy is distorted and it is too difficult to insert the needle in the right position. Lasers will work as well with transplanted hair as it will with normal hair but, in either case, it takes multiple treatments. The disadvantage of both procedures is that they destroy the hair that is removed and they do nothing to improve the appearance of the underlying skin (which is often scarred and made more visible when the hair is gone). Graft excision, on the other hand, allows the hair to be reused and can often improve the appearance of the underlying skin. Q: If someone doesn’t have enough donor hair, do you ever perform hair transplants using FUE, using donor hair from outside the permanent hair zone? Y.L – Manhattan, New York, NY A: No. If hair was taken from outside the permanent zone, as the surrounding hair continued to bald, the scars from FUE, although small, would become visible. In addition, the tran
