insideKENT Magazine Issue 64 - July 2017 | Page 134

HEALTH+WELLNESS
BELLA VOU
Q&A
MR AMIR NAKHDJEVANI, HAIR
RESTORATION SPECIALIST AT BELLA
VOU AND ONE OF THE UK’S PRE-
EMINENT HAIR TRANSPLANT EXPERTS,
ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT
HAIR RESTORATION.
QUESTION
Before
After
"As a man, one of my greatest concerns as I
get older is hair loss. What options do I have
when my hair starts thinning?"
ANSWER
Hair loss can be very difficult to come to terms
with and those of us who find ourselves
follicularly challenged often struggle with low
confidence as a result. It's safe to say you're
not alone, as hair loss affects a whopping 6.5
million men in the UK, while as many as 40%
of men already have noticeable hair loss by
their 35th birthday.
The good news is that hair restoration
techniques have come on leaps and bounds
in recent years, and there are now a range of
treatments which can help to address thinning
hair or even implant new hairs to previously
bald areas on the scalp, as well as the face,
eyebrows and eyelashes.
If you find that you are shedding significant
quantities of hair, leaving you with a receding
hairline and/or bald patches, then it may be
time to consider a hair transplant. Modern hair
transplant surgery addresses balding, thinning
and receding hair by removing healthy hair
follicles from a donor region and grafting them
onto the bald or thinning areas, resulting in a
completely natural looking, permanent head
of hair.
There are two common hair transplant
techniques, Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE)
and Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT). FUE
involves transplanting individual hairs from
one part of the body to another, which survive
and grow as it did in the donor area, with a
natural appearance. FUT involves surgically
removing a strip of tissue from a donor area
which is cut into many individual follicular
units. At Bella Vou we have perfected
minimally invasive hair transplant techniques
that minimise trauma and scarring to the
donor area.
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FUT enables larger numbers of follicle units
to be transplanted in a single session; during
FUE treatments, the greatest number of follicle
units transferred is about 2,000 while up
to 4,000 follicle units can be transplanted
using FUT.
Both FUE and FUT hair transplant procedures
are performed under local anaesthetic, so the
treatment is virtually pain-free. Patients are
fully recovered from the procedure within two
to three days, but most shouldn’t require time
off work while they heal. Typically procedures
take between four and eight hours to complete
and the final results will be visible after 12-18
months.
Hair transplants are charged per hair graft, so
the total cost will be determined by the number
of hairs you require. Average costs are around
£2 per graft; if you have quite advanced hair
loss you may require anything from 3,000 to
7,500 hairs, but most clients we see usually
require between 2,500 and 4,000 hairs to give
them the result they are looking for.
For more information about hair transplants
visit www.bellavou.co.uk/hair
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT HAVING
A COSMETIC PROCEDURE, BUT HAVE
QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS? EMAIL
[e-mail]
WITH YOUR QUESTIONS, AND MR AMIR
NAKHDJEVANI WILL ANSWER THEM IN THE
NEXT ISSUE OF insideKENT.
Bella Vou Pantiles Clinic
45-47 The Pantiles
Tunbridge Wells
TN2 5TE
01892 257357
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