Hair Transplant Surgery - Summary Technique
Anesthesia
The anesthesia used in this surgery is local,
combined with light intravenous sedation.
In order for the patient to feel no pain at
the time the local anesthesia is administered,
as well as feel relaxed during the procedure,
we use a light intravenous sedation. The entire
surgery is monitored by the latest-generation
equipment.
With
sedation, the patient becomes sleepy and does
not remember experiencing pain from the local
anesthesia. The sedation also helps to reduce
the perceived time elapsed during surgery.
The patient will “not sense” that
five to six hours have gone by because he
will have slept during much of this time.
In general the sedation makes the patient
sleep for the first two hours, during which
time the local anesthesia is administered
in the donor and recipient areas.
During the next two hours, the patient will
be sleepy, however with clear awareness of
everything that is happening, and in the last
third of the surgery he will be fully awake,
watching a film previously selected from our
menu.
In this
sense, besides being relaxed, he can follow
the end of the procedure, know precisely how
many follicular units were obtained and end
the surgery without any trace of the sedation,
which is excellent, as we do not use any bandages.
If the patient were still under the effect
of sedation, he could unintentionally touch
his scalp and damage the grafts.
Another advantage is that the patient is discharged,
at the latest, one hour following surgery.
During this time, the patient will take some
medication and receive detailed instructions
for post-operative care for the next 24-hour
period from one of the members of our surgical
team (pain medication, general instructions,
etc.).
Risks
Hair transplant surgery is considered Level
I, in other words, the minimal level for any
type of surgery. It is a long surgery because
the process is laborious, detailed and sophisticated;
however, the area in which we work is quite
restricted and superficial.
Regardless, we only perform this surgery in
a hospital, and obviously, only when the patient’s
clinical and laboratory exams prove that he
may undergo the procedure.
In this manner surgical risk, already low,
is further reduced, just as the risk of contamination.
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