8^th International Dermatology Conference: Skin and Body

Trichology and Hair Transplantation

Trichology is that the branch of medicine that deals with the scientific study of the health of hair and scalp. Trichologists are hair and scalp specialists (one style of skin specialist) who diagnose the causes of hair fall, hair breakage, hair dilution, shrinking of hairs, diseases of the scalp, and treat according to cause. Hair transplantation is a surgery that moves hair and hair follicles from a part of your body called the donor site to the bald or hairless part referred to as the recipient site. It is finished the assistance of a surgical knife or punch graft instrument. The removed hair strands from one a part of body are placed into little holes of the bald scalp. Hair transplantation is either done by follicular unit extraction (FUE) or follicular unit transplant (FUT) technique.