Hair transplant

The only way to permanently treat hair loss is to have a hair transplant, a surgical process performed under local anesthetic that takes about an hour.

In a hair transplant, baldness is treated by removing a strip of skin and hair from another part of the body, usually behind your ears or at the back of your scalp. Tiny incisions are then made in the area that is to receive the transplanted hair.

Hair transplants today look better than they did just a few years ago. That's because surgeons have learned exactly how hair normally grows. And they're now able to re-create natural patterns, for a good-looking head of hair.

The removed hairs and their attached hair follicles are then inserted into the incisions using tweezers. The transplanted hairs fall out in few days but new hair starts to grow from the transplanted hair follicles.