HAIR TRANSPLANTATION - SURGERY FOR MALE BALDNESS

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Dr. Manoj Khanna is the pioneer of hair transplantation in India. The first Workshop on ‘Hair Transplant’ was organized by the Baroda Association of Plastic Surgeons(BAAPS) in 2001, where Dr. Khanna demonstrated live an operation and taught 145 plastic surgeons from all over India the basics and finer aspects of Hair transplant. Subsequently, Dr. Manoj Khanna has performed live workshops all over the country, on invitation from various Medical Colleges and Associations. He was awarded the First Prize for the Best Paper for his work on Hair Transplant at the 8th International Congress of Oriental society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in Bali, Indonesia in Oct 2002. He has given talks on different aspects of hair transplant at numerous international and national forums, including the World Congress of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) in Houston in 2004. He was invited as Faculty to the VIIIth European Society of Laser and Aesthetic Surgery (ESLAS) meeting at Athens, Greece in May 2007, and gave a lecture on ‘Current scenario of Hair Transplantation in India’ which was widely appreciated by delegates from all over the world. He was the only Indian delegate invited to present a paper at the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) meeting at Melbourne in Feb 2008, where he presented a talk on ‘Striving for excellence in Hair Transplantation- The Kolkata slit- Review of 1100 cases’. He was invited as Guest Faculty to the 'Aesthetic Asia' meeting in Singapore in September 2009 to give a talk on "Hair transplantation" and "MegaLiposuction".

He was invited by the editorial Board of Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery to write a review article on ‘Hair Transplantation Surgery’ which can be viewed at IJPS Archive.

He has been invited to give lectures and do live workshops by Medical Colleges and Associations of Plastic Surgery in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Patna, Goa, Jaipur, Bhopal, Pune, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Agra, Khajuraho, Varanasi and many other cities. Dr. Khanna has now gone global, and has opened office in United Arab Emirates (UAE), and in Dhaka, besides his offices in Mumbai and Delhi since 2001. He has been operating and seeing patients in Dubai and Dhaka since 2008.

Hair transplant or Hair replacement or hair restoration or hair transplantation or hair grafting is most common cosmetic surgery procedure request by male patients. The main cause of baldness is heredity.

Depending upon the severity, male baldness is classified into 7 grades. Hairs fall from the front and the centre of the head, but even in the cases of severe baldness, they do not fall from the back and sides of the head, as these hairs are not influenced by the gene that causes baldness and are permanent. Hair is taken from the sides and back of the head and these hairs are transplanted to the bald area by Follicular Unit Transplant Technique (FUT) and single hair grafts.

Hairs are arranged in the scalp in Follicular units or groups of 1, 2, 3 or 4 hairs. In the Follicular Unit Transplant Technique (FUT), these hair follicles are harvested from the donor area which has permanent hairs and are transplanted into the bald areas. Dr. Khanna has designed a special instrument called the "Kolkata Slit" which is being patented and is very useful for Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation or FUT.

The transplanted hair appear just like normal hair, never fall and grow continuously at a rate of 2-3 cm. per month like other hair. Shampoo and oil can be applied & they can be combed to the style of your choice. The transplanted hairs are permanent and grow like normal hair and need haircuts later.

The entire procedure is done under local anesthesia and the patient is awake and aware during the hair transplantation. We have a cable TV set in the Operation Theatre, and the patient watches his favourite channel on television whilst the surgery is done. 4 to 6 people work at the same time, and it takes 3 to 6 hours for a sitting to be complete. The patient goes home immediately after the operation.

One or more sittings of Hair transplant may be required, depending on the severity and extend of baldness. A maximum of 2500-3000 grafts or Follicular Units of hair can be transplanted in one sitting and if required, the next sitting can be done after 6 months.

There are no side-effects of Hair Transplantation. The operation is on the scalp outside the skull bone and the brain is inside the skull, and there are no adverse effects of hair transplantation.

Dr Manoj Khanna and his team have satisfied more than 1500 cases of hair transplantation till date (31/12/2009) and patients come to him for this procedure from all over India and the world, including USA, UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, middle-east, etc. He has done Hair transplant for many filmstars from Bollywood and Tollywodd, cricketers and almost all the current TV cricket commentators, includign ex-India cricket captains. He has recently opened offices in Dhaka and UAE, besides his clinics in Delhi and Mumbai. He visits Dubai and Dhaka every 2-3 months, and sees patients and operates there.His team does 20 to 25 cases of Hair transplant every month and some results can be seen in the photo gallery of this website.

 

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