Main description:

This book provides surgeons with the latest advances and most up to date techniques in aesthetic and reconstructive hair transplant surgery.

Beginning with an overview of the basic anatomy of hair and an introduction to hair loss and transplantation, the next chapter discusses the medical management of hair loss.

The following sections offer step by step guidance on various hair transplantation techniques covering follicular extraction, donor and recipient area, grafts, instruments, potential complications, and postoperative care. Medicolegal and ethical issues are also discussed and a complete chapter is dedicated to setting up a hair transplant practice.

This comprehensive text is enhanced by nearly 400 surgical photographs, figures and tables.

Key Points

Provides latest advances and techniques in aesthetic and reconstructive hair transplant surgery
Techniques presented in step by step format, and sections on medicolegal and ethical issues
Complete chapter covers setting up a hair transplant practice
Comprehensive text enhanced by nearly 400 images and illustrations

Contents:

Section 1: Hair-Basic Sciences
Section 2: Clinical Trichology
Section 3: Medical Management Of Hair loss
Section 4: Surgical Management, Case Selection, Surgical Planning
Section 5: Strip Dissection And FUE
Section 6: Graft Dissection, Graft Storage
Section 7: Recipient Area
Section 8: Postoperative Care And Complications
Section 9: Nonscalp Areas
Section 10: Special Situations
Section 11: Setting-Up Hair Transplant Practice-Management Issues
Section 12: Miscellaneous Topics