Hair Transplant

Baldies used to be faced with two utterly unedifying choices. Wear a wig (they still look rubbish, even when they cost a million quid) or grow a combover. Anyone who has ever seen a poor egg headed fellow walking down the street, blissfully convinced that the floppy length of side hair plastered pitifully onto his pate looks natural, knows how useless the latter option is - and the former, as stated, is never worth the paper it's printed on: particularly if the hair loss is only partial (non pattern baldness). No - the only way, it seems (and has seemed, for the last 20 years) is to get a hair transplant.
The traditional hair transplant involves a hugely unpleasant operation, so lengthy and delicate it is surgically classified as "invasive". Honestly. Having a hair transplant, if it's done in the "normal" or old style, is invasive surgery. Surely, that should be enough to make even the baldest coot pause for a moment before signing the dotted line. Bald head or major operation? Tricky choice.
Apparently not, given the amount of people who have opted to have an old style hair transplant and gone through the attendant horrors of general anaesthetic, interminable operations and savage after effects. The old style hair transplant operation involves "farming" strips of skin from hairy parts of the head and grafting them onto the bald bits - medically equivalent to the attempted healing of third degree burns. At best, old style hair transplant operations leave patients with sore, swollen heads that deflate after two weeks into something that looks almost, but not quite, entirely unlike natural hair: at worst, they can kill, maim, deform or introduce nasty secondary infections that require weeks of treatment. Again: seems like an awful lot of risk just so's not to be bald.
Fortunately, there's a new and improved hair transplant operation out there. Seriously improved, in fact - so good that the transplanted hair can't be told from the original, the patient doesn't have to go under at all and the whole thing is about as invasive as getting a tattoo. This new type of hair transplant procedure involves taking individual hairs from parts of the head where the natural growth is very similar to the growth required on the bald bits, and inserting them manually. A natural combover, in other words, without the stupid floppy bits. Recovery rates are excellent and acquired growth levels way beyond anything the old hair transplant could offer.
The down side? The new hair transplant operation is currently only available in a very few clinics. The up side - it works, and those clinics (like the Harley Street Hair Clinic) are extremely reputable. A new dawn for Mr Bald, it seems: and one likely to stay.
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Harley Street Hair Clinic offers hair transplant services, micro-surgery and laser therapy. Skilled and experienced doctors place hairs a natural orientation. The traditional hair transplant involves a hugely unpleasant operation, so lengthy and delicate it is surgically classified as "invasive". For more information please visit http://www.hshairclinic.co.uk/