Causes
What causes a hair transplant scar?
Anyone who has had a hair transplant, will as a consequence of that also have a hair transplant scar or scars on the back of their head.
There are two types of hair transplant surgery that leave scars. The first one is called follicular unit strip surgery (fuss). This is where a strip of hair is cut from the donor area (back of the head) to be used on the thinning or balding area. The skin in the donor area is then stitched back together which results in a hair transplant scar.
The second type of surgery is called follicular unit extraction (fue). Here strands of hair from the donor area are transplanted in groups of between 1-4 on the thinning area. This method does not produce a hair transplant scar as such, however the donor area looks ‘patchy’ from where the hairs have been plucked.
As you can see either option will leave you with a hair transplant scar on the back of your head. People who have under gone FUSS surgery will sometimes have a second (or third) operation just to try to reduce the size of the original hair transplant scar. In the majority of these cases the results will prove futile as the hair transplant scar will still remain visible.
