Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Transexual Hair transplant

We are seeing many patients who are not getting hair transplant for balding, but for change in their current non-balding pattern. One of those are transgender or transexual hair transplantation. Female to male hair transgender hair transplant is one of the most essential procedures in this process. The most important change that they need to have a more feminant face is a changing their hairline through a hair transplant. We at US Hair Restoration perform transgender hair transplant to change a male to female hairline.
There might be 2 major problems for male to female transgender patients The first is having receded frontal corners in mature male patterned hairline which is what makes the frame of the face "masculine". Receded corners can be easily restored with hair restoration through follicular unit transplantation. The second issue is when there is also miniaturization or balding of the rest of their hair in a male patterned baldness that may require further hair restoration. Taking anti-testosterone medications can help to slow down your hair loss, but it does not stop the balding process completely. Removing the testicles surgically as part of a transgender procedure can eliminate testosterone and, in turn, stop the process of androgenetic alopecia in people who are genetically prone to male pattern baldness.

Male mature hairline change to a feminie is differnt than restoring hair loss in a male pattern, but in both cases, a hair transplant can help you. Obviously, you need to continue with your anti-testosterone medications and get a hair transplant to reshape the frame of your face. You may need more than one hair transplant procedure for maximum fullness of the hairline in a perfect female pattern.
Hair transplantation for transgender is an important procedure and the hair transplant surgeon needs to understand your facial proportions. Your Hair transplant doctor needs to be experienced with shaping the hairline in women. Women hairline is different from male in many aspects such as: the location of the hairline from eyebrow level at mid frontal and laterals; temples need to be restored in a complete female shape; direction and orientation of hair shafts are also different between men and women. All these features and details of the patient face need to be dealt with closely by an experienced hair transplant surgeon.

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