The origins of the hair transplant surgery go back up there in the nineteenth century. Initially conducted in animals in 1800, the autograft hair transplantation or hair as they were known initially) was carried out to treat alopecia with varying degrees of baldness, and varying degrees of success since 1983

This began with a doctor who wanted to replace the hair of the eyebrows for people who had lost by accidents and traumas. Before World War I, Dr. Okuda of Japan was trying to transplant hair to the eyelashes and eyebrows of people who had lost them traumatically. When war broke out, progress in these procedures was detained until two decades later.

In 1959, Dr. Norman Orentreich began a new field of surgery when he published what is now the basis for surgical hair transplant. It was during this decade that doctors had begun to try to transplant hair follicles to bald areas. Initially it used the hair of the periphery or the back and sides of the head, to try.

The working group of Dr. Orentreich was trying to determine if the hair follicles taken from other body parts were resistant to the cause of baldness that were in the head or hair loss was because of something inherent in the follicles themselves. This would solve the question of whether hair transplant would be effective with these techniques. And showed that hair follicles obtained from different parts of the bald areas on the skin bald survived and achieved a major breakthrough. Demonstrated that can repopulate the bald skin head. The survival of hair was determined by the follicle itself (alopecic area) and not bald skin. Only the follicles of the bald area are weak and which were placed on the scalp from other areas. It called this phenomenon of donor dominance. Then the hair transplant surgery became possible.

The initial technique was a procedure not entirely satisfactory. While this technique allowed to know how to wear your hair on the sides and back of the head to bald areas, was not aesthetically appropriate. They could not make a natural looking result (the famous "doll hair") to perform the technique with punch or punch. " Although no adequate aesthetic result, today we consider it a technical breakthrough because it found that the bald area does not weaken the follicle. Follicle is the area which is set by multiple genes (heredity) to be marked by the hormone of masculinity and then go fall in a pattern that has been called Androgenetic Alopecia. Androgenetic Alopecia We know that makes its appearance with the sexual maturity of the patients (about 18 to 20 years).

The technique of the punch provided that the priority of doctors and not the survival of transplanted hair. Allowed to move to the next question to address: getting the proper cosmetic result.

The hair transplant procedures in the 60 and 70 using segments with 15-25 scalp hair and were grafted in a round cylindrical pattern. These cylinders were obvious and ugly hair. They did not seem quite natural, if an individual had these hairs transplanted in this way, everyone knew it. Not only did not give a natural look, but they were also permanent, which did not make them real alternative to silicone hair and hairpieces.

But studies and research has continued in the 80s and progress was made in hair transplant surgery. Mini-grafts are more respectful, but still had the look of plugs, pins "overlapping" but thinner. These Mini-grafts were composed of 5-8 hairs each. The size of mini-grafts is still being used by some surgeons even today.

The replacement of hair through surgical techniques have come a long way in recent decades. Surgeons today can achieve spectacular results in bald areas never before seen. With the improvement and refinement in surgical instruments and the introduction of visual growth (magnifiers and stereo-microscopy), the graft used by most surgeons have reached the point of refinement is known generically as the Capillary Micrograft Current technique.

In U. S. Bernstein and Rassman in 1995 published "Follicular Transplantation" paving the physiological unit of the hair, the so-called Follicular Unit which consists of the hair bulb, the sebaceous gland, sweat gland, erector muscle of hair, and she can go 1,2,3, and up to 4 hairs. And for the most viable follicular unit must be separated from the surrounding skin for increased visual as well as for transplanting. Dr. Unger in Canada and others (1995), argue that these grafted Follicular Units should follow the natural angle and direction of the hair out and not placed at random or perpendicular, which always results in unnatural appearance. Since these dates in 1997 to participate personally with Dr. Unger in Hair Transplant Forum.

Today, at the end of the 1st decade of the twenty-first century the need of patients has led us to conduct sessions which cover a large area almost bald without interfering with your lifestyle. Grades incipient alopecia have the opportunity for a single session kept away the image of baldness and nobody noticed the recovery of lost hair of the entries, as with the results achieved by the patient does not differentiate between natural hair and hair transplant; and drug treatments were able to stop the fall in more than 95%.

Patients at increased baldness should choose to cover the entire bald area density to lower density, or cover areas bounded but yes, at maximum density. This also depends exclusively on the capillary density present in the donor area (number of follicular units).

And there is still room for improvement, as we give priority to the design of the first hairline on the forehead, there exists a turning point of the surgeons who make it, and those who do not. The priority is the pursuit of excellence in a completely natural to recreate a frontal hairline first fully dense, natural appearance. Also on the crown recreate the "whirlpool" or "snail" to further ensure the natural look of hair. Maximum naturally.

It not only ensure the survival of over 95% of the units transplanted, giving them a vital management transplanted organ, not being valid megasesiones (more than 6 hours) exposure to lack of oxygen to the Follicular Units and outside the body . It not only put thousands of these Follicular Units in one session with our team of highly qualified and experience of more than 15 years dedicated. Maximum possible density. All this is possible if there is advance planning: initial consultation, resolution of expectations and risk assessment.

The hair transplant surgery has reached a level that allows for a predictable and it is almost imperceptible to most people for their most natural. In the course of several decades has changed from an experimental operation to one that is often used with great success.

And the story of the treatment of alopecia should go ... maybe the path of stem cells for cloning or perhaps hair. The process of obtaining stem cells is already a fact. Still need to find the mechanism of induction of these cells to germ cells and thence to the bulge-forming cells. The future is just exciting.