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Hair Loss surgery

Find out more about our Hair Transplant procedures

Introduction to Hair Loss Surgery

Within the Westminster Clinic website, we discuss the causes of hairloss and treatments available. One of the hairloss treatments available includes surgery which seeks to offer a longer term solution to your hair loss problem.

Many people believe that hair transplantation is the only hair surgery method available to them, they are wrong.

Although this is a popular surgical method, with 90% of our customers using hair transplant techniques there are a number of different types of hair loss surgery methods available. The alternative hair loss surgeries to hair transplantation are discussed in more detail below:

To understand more about different hair transplant treatments available visit the link below:
Hair Transplant Treatments

Feel free to request an online consultation with one of our Dr’s at any time to find out which surgery method will be the best option for you.

Hairloss surgery techniques

Hair Loss Surgery is the only treatment available that will reliably and consistently replace hair in bald areas. Over the years, many different types of hairloss surgery have been tried and we will detail the different surgical hair loss treatments below. Essentially though, all hair surgery techniques are redistributing the hair on the head, not creating new hair.

Hair Transplantation Surgery

As discussed above, the main type of hairloss surgery is hair transplantation. To find out more about Hair Transplant surgery procedures and the methods involved, visit the below link:

Frechet Scalp Reduction

Scalp reduction is only performed on the crown area of the scalp, or ‘the monk’s bald spot’. In this hair loss surgical procedure, the bald skin on the crown is removed and the hairy sides of the scalp above the ears are drawn together. Normally, the bald scalp requires 1 – 2 sessions to remove it (utilising a Frechet extender under the skin, which pulls the skin together so that the central scar does not widen). The third and final procedure is a very clever three way transpositional flap, which relocates the final scar and hair direction into the classic crown swirl. Although not so often used now, it can be a very effective form of hair loss surgery, giving great results within three months. However, it is very dependent on good patient characteristics and the skill of the surgeon, such as Dr Frechet himself.

Flap Rotation - Juri Flap Hair Loss Surgery

This hair loss surgery involves raising a flap of the hairy skin from the side donor area (above the ears) and rotating it into an incision made in the frontal hairline. The two flaps from either side then meet in the middle of the hairline. It gives a very strong hair line but unfortunately it tends to be too thick and straight and because of this unnaturalness, this type of hair loss surgery is rarely used nowadays. Variations of this hair loss surgical procedure are used to restore patches of hair loss when patients have scalp burns etc. The alternative is:

Balloon Expander Hair Loss Surgery

This technique implants an expandable balloon of saline under the scalp which is slowly filled in size over a number of months. This gradually stretches the hairy skin enabling the surgeon to cover a large gap of missing hairy scalp (typically a burn) in one operation. If the skin wasn’t prestretched, it would contract back and the scar reform. The surgical hair loss methods above are probably the most well known and relevant techniques used and there are many variations of them.