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Hair Transplantation

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Abstract

Considering the significance of hair for beauty, especially for women, it is easy to understand why hair loss often causes severe emotional distress and affects quality of life and why people’s desire for hair restoration includes hair transplantation. This chapter presents an overview of hair loss classification, hair transplantation, patient selection and preoperation evaluation, instruments and settings, follicular unit transplantation method, follicular unit extraction method, donor area and recipient area, postoperation care, pitfalls and complication, hair transplantation in scaring alopecia, and hair transplants in other sites of the body.

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  1. Skin Diseases and Leishmaniasis Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

    Bahareh Abtahi-naeini

  2. Abbasi Hair Clinic, Tehran, Iran

    Ali Abbasi

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  1. Department of Pathology, Univ of Rochester School of Med, Rochester, NY, USA

    Bruce Smoller

  2. Khorramshahr, Iran

    Nooshin Bagherani

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Abtahi-naeini, B., Abbasi, A. (2021). Hair Transplantation. In: Smoller, B., Bagherani, N. (eds) Atlas of Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Venereology . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45134-3_87-1

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