Pros:
- Hair restoration provides a permanent solution to hair loss by redistributing hairs from areas of more density into areas of less density.
- Modern restoration techniques, such as FUE hair restoration, are very low impact procedures performed under local anesthesia in the doctor’s office. These procedures do not produce any significant post op pain that would require pain medication, and they heal very quickly without any of the old style linear scarring from the follicular unit transplant aka strip procedure.
- When performed well, hair restoration is hard - if not impossible - to differentiate from naturally growing hair, even by a trained stylist.
Cons:
- As hair restoration is fundamentally based on the redistribution of hairs, a major limitation is a supply/demand mismatch. In such circumstances, there is too much demand to be obtained from the supply. For this reason, the best restoration candidates still have a good amount of existing hair, and for those with a significant amount of hair loss, restoration may not be appropriate for them.
- Hair restoration does not address future hair loss. To achieve the best long term results, it is very important to maintain the original hair with medications. The transplanted hair will never go, but the rest is at risk without proper ongoing management with medical products like Blends topicals and pills.
- Hair restoration when performed poorly can lead to not only bad results, but the need for additional procedures to fix it up. It’s important when choosing to have hair restoration to go with a practice that specializes in hair restoration, not one that just does a little bit on the side. A cheap procedure can easily end up costing more to fix-up later on.
Ultimately the pros and cons of hair restoration are quite subjective and it’s up to the individual to determine what is best for them based on their personal goals and expectations. Thankfully, there are many options out there to make dramatic hair improvements including traditional medications, topical Rx Blends, cosmetics, restoration, and scalp camo. Often it is a combination of products and treatments which will deliver the very best outcomes.