What is a Hair Graft?
During a hair transplant, small grafts of skin containing hair follicles are removed from the areas of permanent hair in the back and on the sides of the scalp, and moved to the areas of thinning or complete baldness. The grafts are placed into small openings created in the bald areas using a fine needle, scalpel or other fine instrument. The openings can be created using various instruments and may consist of needle holes, small slits (incisions where tissue is not removed), punch holes, or laser made holes (where recipient tissue is actually removed or destroyed to provide room for the graft). As discussed above, both the size of the grafts and the size of the recipient sites have become smaller over the past 40 years. This decrease in size has made the transplants dramatically more natural in appearance. Grafts can survive for a variable time outside the body depending upon how they are handled and stored. From the time the hair bearing tissue is removed from the back of the scalp,
