Eki 15 2019

What is a Graft?

People who want to have hair transplantation, this term, which they hear frequently, is actually used in dentists and other medical departments such as surgery.
Grafts, which have different meanings in other areas of medicine, are generally defined as tissue taken from any part of our body without any vascular and nerve connections to be transferred to another part of our body.
It is fed by a method called “diffusion e in the region where the tissue is transported. Diffusion is the feeding of the grafts carried separately from the vascular and nerve connections with the tissues around them and their capillary vessels. With this process, the tissue gets used to the region where it is transported and new vascular connections begin to form. Nutritional problems mean that the grafts cannot adapt to the area where they are transplanted and die. In order to avoid this situation, grafts are used as small pieces as thin as possible.
Grafts used in different parts of medicine can be taken from different areas of the body for different treatments. Nowadays, the most needed graft tissues are; skin, hair follicle, stem cell, cartilage and so on. They are located.

Grafting in Hair Transplantation

The term graft, which is widely used in hair transplantation, is the tissue pieces that are prepared to be transplanted from the donor area of the person who wants to have hair transplanted to the opened area. The graft contains hair roots and some skin. There are different types of grafts depending on the amount of skin in the content and the number of hair follicles.
Generally, donor grafts are removed from the nape between the two ears in the double, triple, five hair follicles can be found.
In hair transplantation, how much hair can be planted where the hair is shed is a stage that affects the outcome of the operation.
The number of grafts does not mean the number of hair follicles. Therefore, it is not important how many grafts to be transplanted, but how many hair follicles are present in the grafts to be transplanted.
How much hair will grow at the place where the hair is transplanted is not determined by the transplanted graft, but by the number of hair follicles in the grafts. The amount of hair follicle in a graft from your donor area will vary according to the structure, quality and density of your hair.

Storage Conditions of Grafts are Very Important

The grafts collected at the beginning of the sowing operation are kept until the second stage of the sowing process.
These tissues, which are alive when they are collected from the donor area and should remain alive, should be ready for the right environment before the operation for 1-2 hours. The grafts remain in a special solution after removal.

How many grafts can be transplanted in one session?

Hair transplantation is a process that requires patience. Hair transplantation operations can take between 4 and 6 hours. This time varies according to the number of grafts to be sown.
The patient does not feel pain due to local anesthesia during grafting and transplanting, and can read newspapers or watch television.