How serious/complicated is Hair Transplant Surgery compared to other types of surgery?

[mmhce]

How serious/complicated is Hair Transplant Surgery compared to other types of surgery, such as heart surgery, and so on?

 

Can we use a scale of 1 to 10 and say that hair transplantation is rated as 2 or 3?

[Dewayne]

I'd say you're about right, if heart and brain surgery is a 10 then hair transplant would be a 2 or 3.

 

A 1 would probably be....taking tonsils out?

[PLEASE GROW PLEASE]

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[mmhce]

if heart and brain surgery is a 10

 

 

It just occurred to me that I had not put boundaries on the scale, i.e. 0 = x type of surgery and 10 = y type of surgery.

 

I guess sub-consciously, I naturally assumed a 10 would be heart surgery (which may not be necessarily so).

 

Thanks for the comments.

[Jan]

Dewayne, I wouldn't consider a tonsillectomy a 1. I had my tonsils taken out at the age of 32 and it requires general anesthesia. (and my recouperative period was longer). So I would assign that higher up on the scale than my HT.

[Dr. William Lindsey]

Jan

 

Having taken out about 500 sets of tonsils when I used to do ENT work, prior to the year 2000; I feel your pain from your adult tonsillectomy. Few things are as bad as that.

 

The hardest operations in Facial plastic surgery are revision rhinoplasty, followed by revision lower eyelid surgery, then rhinoplasty. Hair is not technically challenging; but rather requires an "eye" for designing the hairline and placing the slits. Also key is knowing what a realistic outcome is and making sure that that is discussed with the patient in detail prior to the surgery.

 

For those who have had a consult with me, I list mistake number 2 as trying to accomplish too much coverage with too little hair.

 

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA

[latinlotus]

1 for me. I would place HT somewhere between a root canal and wisdom root extraction.

[Dr. William Lindsey]

That is a pretty good guestimate.

 

Dr. Lindsey McLean VA