Risks and complications of hair transplantation surgery

What is hair transplant surgery?

Hair transplant or hair restoration surgery is one of the most popular and sought after aesthetic treatments. Genetics account for most of the alopecia that brings with it denigration. The aetiology if hair loss is associated with stress, illness, medications and diet besides heredity. Men afflicted with male pattern baldness tend to choose hair transplant surgeries to reinstate their confidence and reclaim societal acceptance. As nonchalant as it may seem, baldness is actually a man’s worst nightmare. Typically, the hair transplant surgery involves taking hair from the sides or back of the head (which act as donor sites) and place them in the bald areas of the scalp. It is usually performed by a certified surgeon under local anaesthesia.



Types of surgery

There are two types of hair transplantation surgery – FUE and FUT.

FUE:

  • FUE or follicular unit extraction involves the removal of the hair-bearing skin from the area graft by graft
  • A blunt punch tool is used to remove individual hair follicles
  • The procedure cannot be accomplished without a scar

FUT:

  • FUT or follicular unit transplantation requires the extraction of single strips of donor skin
  • The location of the donor area has to be chosen carefully
  • A scalpel for dissection is required for the procedure
  • 21 and 19 –gauge hypodermic needles are needed to prepare the recipient site
  • The procedure also requires a linear incision to be made

Risks of hair transplantation surgery

Any surgery comes with its own risk and so does hair transplantation. Besides the failure of hair regrowth, there are several other post-operative complications such as oedema and sterile folliculitis as the most common. Pain medications, anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics are routinely prescribed to minimise pain and infection after the operation. Some of the most frequent and common complications are:
  • Swelling and oedema: A very common complication, the patient’s forehead and eyelids become swollen for at least 2 to 6 days and in some cases so severe that individuals cannot open their eyes. This causes significant morbidity and patients suffer a delay in returning back to normal life. 
  • Sterile folliculitis: Another frequent post-operative ramification, sterile folliculitis involves the infection of one or more hair follicles. The condition can present itself within weeks or even months after transplantation. Reports have shown in-growth of hair, reactions to foreign bodies and blockage of epithelium in the slit recipient sites. It is called sterile because no pathogens can be cultured from the lesions.
  • Scarring: Keloid scars or wide crosshatch scars appear, followed by numbness, paraesthesia and bacterial folliculitis in the donor area. The causes are attributed to improper donor harvesting (where the strip is too wide), excessive tension applied during a closure, transection of hair follicles, blood and nerve supply and poor location.
    • Other complications include:
    • Bleeding
    • Crust on the areas where the hair has been removed on the scalp
    • Lack of sensation in the recipient sites
    • Shock loss – temporary loss of transplanted hair
    • Unnatural looking hair 
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