Is Hair Restoration Painful?
If you are facing the prospect of hair loss or balding, consider taking advantage of the high-tech hair restoration treatments that help you fight back against male pattern baldness, thinning hair, a receding hairline, or sparse or balding patches.
However, patients want to avoid pain during surgery, especially if the procedure is elective or cosmetic. Hair restoration is not usually painful, but associated pain varies based on the type of treatment.
A Hair Transplant Uses Local Anesthesia to Minimize Pain
A hair transplant is not a painful procedure. Most patients report almost no pain and describe a hair transplant as a straightforward and pleasant experience, thanks to local anesthesia and post-operative pain medications.
However, even the most minimally invasive or benign medical procedures have some discomfort, and a hair transplant is no exception. The first injection might cause pain, but the remainder of the process should be painless once this stage is completed.
Different Hair Restoration Techniques Have Different Pain Expectations
FUT (Follicular Unit Transplantation) removes healthy hair follicles in small strips from a donor area which are then inserted into the site to be treated. Because a strip of healthy hair is taken, the procedure is slightly more invasive, increasing recovery time and the likelihood of pain.
With FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction), smaller hair follicles are removed at once. This procedure leaves little to no scarring, reducing recovery time and the chances of experiencing pain.
Other treatments at The Center for Hair Restoration that feature minimal pain include:
- ARTAS robotic hair transplant
- Neograft
- PRP (platelet-rich plasma) Hair Therapy
- Low-Level Light Therapy
- Hair Loss Medications such as Viviscal, Finasteride, Rogaine, Minoxidil, and Propecia
Hair Restoration in Pittsburgh Doesn’t Have to be Painful
Hair restoration technology has made groundbreaking advances recently, reducing the associated pain while producing better results. Dr. Heil is the only plastic surgeon in the tri-state area to offer ARTAS hair restoration, the gold standard in minimal-pain modern hair restoration.
We offer treatments featuring technology that can restore a hairline or thinning hair without a long recovery, high pain, stitches, plugs, or scars. If you are ready to do something about hair loss, you deserve the best of what modern medical technology offers. You deserve minimal-pain hair restoration in Pittsburgh.
