Hair Restoration Procedures

If you’ve lost facial hair due to disease, surgical scarring, aging, or just haven’t been able to grow the beard, mustache, or sideburns you’ve always wanted, Dr. Charles can help. Charles Medical Group in Boca Raton strictly focuses on hair transplantation procedures and our team takes pride in our ability to provide personalized care and outstanding results.

The same hair transplantation techniques that can restore the hair on your scalp can be used to restore your facial hair. A thin strip of hair is removed from an inconspicuous donor area on your scalp. Dr. Charles then uses a microscope to dissect the strip of hair into grafts containing just one two hairs. The hairs are then transplanted into minute incisions wherever more facial hair is desired. By transplanting the hairs one at a time, Dr. Charles can place them with excellent precision, positioning them the way they would naturally grow.

With age, eyebrows can become thin and sparse. They can also be casualties of aggressive plucking or even disease and trauma. Thankfully, the same techniques that restore hair to the scalp can be used to restore the full, natural appearance of your eyebrows. Individuals with thinning eyebrows who are looking for a way to restore their appearance are good candidates for an eyebrow transplant. Candidates should also have enough donor hair present on their scalp for the procedure and should be in good overall health.

A very small strip of hair is removed from an inconspicuous donor area on the scalp. Dr. Charles and his staff dissect the strip into grafts of just one or two hairs. He then places the hairs into tiny incisions where hair is desired. The hairs are placed with precision, so they grow in the correct direction and at the same angle as the surrounding hair.

Hair transplantation is essentially a two-part procedure. In the first part, hairs are taken from the donor region of your scalp, the back of the head where hairs are typically resistant to male pattern baldness. In the second part of the procedure, these hairs are transplanted into the balding areas. The two leading methods of hair transplantation, Follicular Unit Excision (FUE), and Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) are essentially the same when it comes to the second part of the procedure. What’s different about FUE is that it uses a relatively new method of extracting donor hairs. While the traditional method of hair excision, Follicular Unit Transplantation excises thin strips of hair from the donor region and then these strips are dissected into individual grafts, FUE extracts these individual grafts directly, one at a time.

Using a very small circular tool (FUE Device), the doctor makes a tiny punch around each follicular unit consisting of one, two, three, or four hairs. While FUT leaves long, thin scars that are difficult to detect, even on close inspection, FUE leaves only tiny circular both that are easy to camouflage with even short hair styles.