Is a Hair Transplant Painful?

Fortunately, with help from local anesthesia, you can remain comfortable throughout your surgery — alert enough to read or watch TV. After your treatment, you may experience some discomfort, though nothing that should rise to the level of “pain,” but that can be easily managed with pain medication. This discomfort should fade within a few days as the swelling subsides.

How Many Appointments Will I Need?

This depends on your current state of hair loss and how much hair restoration you hope to achieve. Smaller bald patches require only one or two sessions, but restoring hair to a large area of the top of the scalp will take longer.

How Long Until I See Results?

While hair follicles from the donor site will be immediately placed where your hair loss is occurring, all of these hairs will naturally shed within a week or two but will begin to regrow around four to six months after the procedure. Patience is essential. Within 12 to 18 months, most of our patients are enjoying a dramatically thicker head of hair.

Can I Combine a Hair Transplant With Other Procedures?

Yes, you can. Many patients who get a hair transplant in Orange County choose to get a PRF for hair restoration in tandem to amplify the impact of hair growth and rejuvenation. If you are interested in combining these procedures, we recommend that you share your desire with your personal surgeon during your initial consultation so that he is aware and can include it as he drafts your treatment plan.

What Are the Risks Associated With a Hair Transplant?

A hair transplant with Neograft has some risks associated with it. Patients should learn about them ahead of time. Some of them are listed below: Bleeding Folliculitis (hair follicles become inflamed or infected) Infection Inflammation Scarring Shock Loss Unnatural-looking new hair growth If you experience any of these side effects, please contact us immediately so that we may help.

Hair Transplant

San Clemente, CA

Introduction

Introduction to Hair Transplant

Hair loss is often thought of as a problem just for men, but studies show that nearly 50% of women also experience some amount of hair loss in their lifetimes. As a result, androgenic alopecia, or male and female pattern baldness, is something that most people have to contend with as they age. This is why hair restoration treatments are in such high demand globally. Neograft is a minimally invasive and effective hair restoration treatment that leaves no scarring. It is an advanced procedure using Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) that can graft several thousand hair follicles at a time.

Facial Aesthetic Concepts is excited to offer NeoGraft hair restoration in Orange County. Request a complimentary consultation to learn more about your hair restoration options. We offer convenient appointment times at 3 locations in Southern California to accommodate your needs.

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What is a Hair Transplant?

Hair restoration surgery involves removing donor hair from the back of the scalp. In older methods, this donor’s hair was typically acquired using strip grafting, but this technique often leaves visible scarring and has a longer recovery time. At Facial Aesthetic Concepts, the technique used is Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) with a new and innovative system called Neograft. NeoGraft is an option to treat both male and female hair loss resulting from genetic, systemic, or other factors.

NeoGraft’s automation allows us to avoid the inefficiencies of older manual extraction and implant methods while providing more consistent clinical results. The NeoGraft device is designed to keep extracted hairs healthy during extraction and implantation, helping achieve more effective and higher-quality hair restoration in the target area. The use of a specialized handpiece also helps us deliver more standardized implants.

What Are the Benefits of a Hair Transplant?

Through the use of the NeoGraft automated hair transplantation system, our hair loss treatment professionals can carefully remove individual hair follicles from the scalp. This means there are numerous benefits of getting a hair transplant in Orange County at Facial Aesthetic Concepts. Some of them include:

More comfort in treatment.
Lower downtime
Less chance of infection
Minimal scarring in the donor area
Shorter hairstyles are possible on the back of the head
without others noticing any evidence of surgery.

Who Are the Best Candidates For a Hair Transplant?

NeoGraft is a great and easy solution for patients who have experienced moderate hair loss and wish to re-attain a more youthful hairline. Although NeoGraft is a minimally invasive treatment, ideal patients should be non-smokers who are in good overall health.

Their hairline should not be actively receding, and sufficient donor hair must be at the back of the scalp to transfer. NeoGraft is an option to treat both male and female hair loss resulting from genetic, systemic, or other factors. Ideal candidates for this procedure will have minimal, stabilized hair loss with sufficient donor hair for transplant. The greater the hair density and fullness of the hair on the back of the scalp, the easier it is to achieve fuller transplant results.

Patients with more severe hair loss may be better candidates for strip surgery. During a consultation, our hair transplant team can analyze your hair loss and determine if NeoGraft is a good procedure to meet your aesthetic goals.

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What’s the First Step?

The first step in getting a hair transplant in Orange County is to schedule a consultation at Facial Aesthetic Concepts. During this appointment, you will be asked detailed questions about your medical history, genetic history with hair loss, aesthetic goals for this procedure, and expectations.

Your hair restoration specialist will examine the extent of your hair loss to understand if you are a better candidate for strip surgery rather than a hair transplant with Neograft. Neograft is only a good technique for patients who have a medium case of hair loss and are not too early or too late in their hair loss journey. Your specialist will search your scalp for donor patches. He will also discuss the procedure, its associated risks and benefits, and the results to manage your expectations. Patients are encouraged to ask any questions and share any concerns they might have.

If you both decide to move forward with the procedure, a surgical plan will be created for you, which you can then take to a patient coordinator for scheduling, pricing, and any pre-surgical instructions for preparing for the transplant.

What to Expect on the Day of Hair Transplant Surgery

NeoGraft treatments are more comfortable and quicker than older “strip” methods of hair replacement. Only a small amount of local anesthetic is needed, and you’re able to watch a show, read, or chat with your treatment provider while the procedure takes place.
Procedures typically take a few hours and are scheduled so that you have plenty of time to arrive for your appointment, go through the prep process, have treatment, and head back home the same day. If it sounds pretty simple on your side – it is. The advanced NeoGraft treatment system allows us to provide excellent results with minimal disruption and discomfort.

Your surgeon begins by numbing the donor area at the back of your scalp and carefully harvesting follicles. These follicles are sorted and prepared for transfer. In the meantime, your surgeon numbs the front of your scalp, making a series of tiny incisions that can receive the donor follicles. The hair is then implanted in these incisions, a single follicle at a time. They are placed at a slight angle to match the appearance of the frontal hairline better.

Hair Transplant Recovery

The recovery period is short and comfortable. You won’t have any bandages. After a night of rest, you can wash your hair and engage in all your usual daily activities. Most of our patients take a day or two off work, depending on the job. We recommend taking it easy for more strenuous activity for about a week.

Hair Transplant Cost

How Much Does a Hair Transplant Cost in Orange County, CA?

The cost of a Hair Transplant in San Clemente, Aliso Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, and the greater Orange County area depends on multiple factors, including but not limited to the size of the target area, the provider’s fees as well as any anesthetic costs. For the most accurate estimate of your treatment’s cost, please schedule a consultation so that our team can create a treatment plan for you that can then be priced for you.

Why Choose Facial Aesthetic Concepts?

At Facial Aesthetic Concepts, our goal is to do everything we can to achieve your goals. When it comes to hair restoration, we offer NeoGraft and various treatment options to address your concerns and deliver superior results with very little downtime.

Because we strive to achieve the best results possible for our clients, we can combine our hair restoration surgery with non-surgical hair loss solutions such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapies and hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBO). These additional therapies help to enhance the follicular ‘take’ rate and reduce the hair fallout that can occur following treatment. This also helps to stimulate dormant follicles and promote natural hair growth.

Hair Transplant FAQ’S

Fortunately, with help from local anesthesia, you can remain comfortable throughout your surgery — alert enough to read or watch TV. After your treatment, you may experience some discomfort, though nothing that should rise to the level of “pain,” but that can be easily managed with pain medication. This discomfort should fade within a few days as the swelling subsides.
While hair follicles from the donor site will be immediately placed where your hair loss is occurring, all of these hairs will naturally shed within a week or two but will begin to regrow around four to six months after the procedure. Patience is essential. Within 12 to 18 months, most of our patients are enjoying a dramatically thicker head of hair.
Yes, you can. Many patients who get a hair transplant in Orange County choose to get a PRF for hair restoration in tandem to amplify the impact of hair growth and rejuvenation. If you are interested in combining these procedures, we recommend that you share your desire with your personal surgeon during your initial consultation so that he is aware and can include it as he drafts your treatment plan.
A hair transplant with Neograft has some risks associated with it. Patients should learn about them ahead of time. Some of them are listed below:
- Bleeding
- Folliculitis (hair follicles become inflamed or infected)
- Infection
- Inflammation
- Scarring
- Shock Loss
- Unnatural-looking new hair growth
If you experience any of these side effects, please contact us immediately so that we may help.

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Consultation

If you are suffering from a dip in self-esteem due to baldness and hair thinning, please do not despair. Schedule a consultation with one of our hair restoration experts to learn more about getting a hair transplant in Orange County at Facial Aesthetic Concepts. Please contact us online or by phone so that we can help you on your journey to hair restoration.