Medical Hair Restoration Glossary
Beards and Moustaches
An area that may be transplanted with new follicles, for purposes of aesthetic enhancement, or reconstruction after injury.
Body hair transplantation:
Hair from elsewhere on the body may be harvested and transplanted to the scalp, or other location on the body.
Brow lifting:
This is a surgical procedure to raise the brow, including the eyebrow area and forehead skin. Several different surgical techniques can be used.
Burned scalp reconstruction:
Commonly after severe burns to an area of scalp, hair may not re-grow. Hair transplantation and other hair restoration surgical techniques may be used to restore hair to the burned areas.
Ethnic hair:
There are certain hair characteristics that differ between ethnic groups, but none that interfere with the success of the hair transplant procedure. A skilled hair restoration surgeon knows techniques to achieve great results in each patient's unique situation.
Extensive scalp lifting:
A technique in hair restoration surgery where much larger areas of balding scalp on top of the head are removed and the hair bearing scalp from the back and sides elevated and closed. The technique involves surgical dissection underneath the entire scalp down to the level of the ears and nape of the neck.
Eyebrows
An area that may be transplanted with new follicles, for purposes of aesthetic enhancement, or reconstruction after injury.
Eyelashes
An area that may be transplanted with new follicles, for purposes of aesthetic enhancement, or reconstruction after injury.
Facelift hair revision:
This is the correction of scalp hair problems resulting from facelift procedures. These may be due to scarring, hair direction problems, or disruption of hairline alignment.
Follicular unit extraction:
A donor harvesting technique where individual follicular units are removed from the donor area one at a time. A strip is not removed so a linear scar is not created
Follicular Unit Transplantation:
Hair transplantation using hair grafts containing single hair follicles, or small groupings of follicles, known as follicular units. Follicular unit grafts will contain 1,2,3 and occasionally 4 hairs each, with the average being 2.3-2.5 hairs per graft.
Female hair loss/restoration:
Like men, women may lose hair for a variety of medical reasons, though the most common cause is Female Pattern Hair Loss or androgenetic alopecia (inherited hair loss). Medical treatment and hair transplants are very effective at stopping ongoing loss and restoring hair to the areas of concern.
Mini-graft transplantation:
Hair transplantation using hair grafts containing multiple hair follicles from 2 to 3 adjacent follicular units. These grafts typically contain 4-6 hairs and are often used behind the hairline and in the mid-scalp areas.
Punch graft transplantation:
This is the original technique in hair transplantation. Round cylinders of hairy scalp each containing up to 30 follicles were grafted into round holes made with a surgical punch in the areas of hair loss.
Scalp expanders:
This is a surgical device consisting of a flat, inflatable pocket and an injection port. When implanted underneath the scalp, which is then closed, the device may be expanded by serial injections of fluid over a number of weeks. This causes corresponding expansion of the overlying scalp and can allow this scalp to then be surgically moved to cover larger areas than would have been possible with the non-expanded scalp.
Scalp flaps:
A technique where a large strip, or flap, of hair-bearing scalp is raised from its original location and advanced, or turned, and placed down in another location on the scalp.
Scalp reduction:
A technique in hair restoration surgery where areas of balding scalp on top are removed, the hair at the back and sides lifted upwards and the area closed. The technique is also often used to remove scalp scars.
Scar revision:
Excising, or cutting out, an existing scar and closing it again with the goal of creating a smaller, or less visible scar.
Single hair transplantation:
Hair transplantation using hair grafts containing single follicles only. These grafts may be follicular units that contain only one follicle, or single follicles dissected from multi-follicle groupings.
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