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Salman Khan had hair transplant in 2007
after botched hair transplant in 2003.
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One of Bollywood’s biggest actor and bad
boy, Salman Khan was one of the few celebrities who are open about his battle
with hair loss and his hair transplant.
As a person whose career is hinged largely
on his looks, he certainly used the aggressive approach to relieve the problem.
And today, his results became one of those that people look on to as a perfect
example of a successful hair transplant.
Hair loss is a condition that is suffered
by men, usually those who are aging. But unfortunately for 20% of these men,
experience hair loss during their twenties. Salman Khan who is still in his
early thirties was already showing signs of a receding hair line. And for
someone who had a good volume of hair and whose image was defined by it, a hair
transplant is a good option.
Compared to other treatments, hair
transplant is considered to be the best viable choice because it gives good
coverage and permanent results.
Unfortunately not all hair transplant
services result to success, and Khan found this out in his first procedure back
in 2003. He had another work done in Dubai back in 2007 to correct the botched
results. It was said that it was an American doctor who performed the
procedure, but no name was revealed to the public.
To Khan’s advantage, the results were
highly favorable as evidenced by the excellent hair coverage. But what approach
was used on Salman Khan?
As a public figure, it is important that
the outcome provided good aesthetic results. This means that as much as
possible it should be natural-looking and free from scars. That is why he opted
for FUE or the Follicular Unit Extraction technique.
In hair transplant there are two approaches
used to remove the follicular units or the donor hair grafts, and these are FUT
(Follicular Unit Transplant) and FUE. FUT is the traditional technique which
removes a strip of the scalp containing the hair grafts. Each donor graft is
then extracted by hair technicians using a high-powered microscope before it is
implanted back to the head.
But the major drawback with FUT is that it
causes a large scar at the back of the head, which is exactly what Khan was
most certain to avoid. This led him to choose the more lengthy and expensive
but aesthetically pleasing FUE.
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FUE was developed in order to answer to the
aesthetic drawback with FUT. Using a special tool; individual grafts are removed
using a punch technique. As a result this leads to less detectable scars that
also heal faster.
Reports claim that Khan’s donor grafts were
taken from his body hair. This was to maintain the number of hairs in his head.
And this is also possible and has been the method used by some patients. Body
hair is also a viable option to treat baldness.
Some reports also claimed that due to the
scarcity of donor hairs, some synthetic hair was also used to improve volume.
Today Salman Khan graces the screen with a
head full of hair and an image crisis is fully averted with a good hair
transplant.
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