Have you noticed how Patients Choose the Technique Applied to Hair Transplant in Pakistan?

Hair transplant surgery is one of the most gratifying cosmetic surgery procedures for men. It is a very refined surgery performed in both men and women alike - who suffer from any cause of permanent hair loss provided that there is enough donor area and there is no active disease that can damage freshly transplanted hair.

There are various methods being used, that can be implemented to perform a very naturally seeking hair line, giving most thickness to the receiver area and finally to leave the least visible scar at the donor site. In order to achieve these goals, various methods have been devised with decades of extreme hard work of numerous surgeons across the globe. This, however, remains unique to certain parts of the world as to which method becomes most popular to perform the transplant by most of the local physicians. Hair transplant in Pakistan is being performed by various specialists, including dermatologists, plastic surgeons and general physicians to name a few. As the education about health in general and hair transplant in particular is extremely low, people generally rely on the print and electronic media advertisement to choose the surgeon as well as the method with which they want their transplant to be performed. This, indeed, is a very interesting situation that has arisen in the past few years in the field of hair transplant in Pakistan. It is just like a heart surgeon being told by a patient as to which method should he choose to perform his bypass surgery, without realizing that which method may be considered to be the most appropriate by the surgeon himself in a particular case.

If we look into the factors that persuade the patients to choose or demand a particular method of transplant surgery in Pakistan, one can easily assess that most if not all of the prospective patients are generally influenced by an advertisement that they neither evaluated for its authenticity nor did they do any research to see if it would best suit their particular need. One such method is a technique of hair transplant known as 'no-touch" method. Many patients incorrectly imagine that hair are not touched in this technique while transplanting the hair, without realizing that a surgery cannot be performed without touching the parts upon which it is being performed. When a patient reads a grossly misrepresented advertisement that touching the hair during surgery can damage it, and 'no-touch" technique can be a safer option, most patients believe it, although some of them will go into the details and will find out that it is a purely marketing gimmick.

Similarly, a long practiced and gold standard of hair transplant surgery known as traditional strip method is portrayed as inferior to other techniques. It is still the most efficient, safe and effective method of hair transplant surgery being performed most of the time by most of the hair transplant surgeons across the globe including the hair transplant surgeons in Pakistan. In the best interest of the patients it is suggested that they either rely on the expert opinion of their carefully chosen hair transplant to decide as to which method would be most suitable in a particular patient, or they can research about various methods and their efficacy as well as safety in detail using the greatest resource - the web, but even in that case leave the final decision with the surgeon after discussing all the available options.