Afro Hair Transplant
At the British Hair Clinic, our skilled surgeons and their assistants are trained to deal with afro-hair and curly hair types. See some the amazing afro-hair type results we achieve routinely at the British Hair Clinic.
Are hair transplants suitable for afro hair?
Simple answer yes. Curly hair and afro-hair is trickier than straight hair types.
An Afro hair transplant is a hair transplant procedure that treats specifically people with tightly curled Afro-textured or curly hair. Curly hair and afro-hair is trickier than straight hair types. This is because the hair grows at a curved angle away from the hair follicle meaning that only an experienced surgeon and team using specific techniques can perform successful afro-hair transplants.
Therefore, achieving good results in difficult hair types isn’t as easy. It is often the reason why some hair transplant surgeons and clinic’s refuse to do hair transplants on afro-hair types or curly hair.
FAQ’s
FUE hair transplants work successfully in afro hair types when performed by a skilled and experienced surgeon. Having said that it is more difficult hair type to work with as the angle of the roots of the hair follicles are very different to the angle in which the hair grows out of the skin.
This means that extracting them successfully without damaging a high number of hairs in the donor area can be more difficult. If care isn’t taken or experience is lacking, the donor area can be overly harvested meaning the back of the head becomes very ‘gappy’ and scarred in afro hair type patients.
It is important to chose a surgeon and clinic that have performed successful hair transplants on afro-curly hair types. Celebrity patients such as Conor Benn and James DeGale have undergone successful afro hair transplants with amazing results.
Transplanting African-American hair can be difficult as it is curly. The curls do not stop at the scalp but extend into the root of each hair, meaning it is harder to extract from the donor area without easily damaging it. The damage rate (dissection rate) is higher in afro-curly hair types than in Asian or N. European hair types.
Often surgeons have to overcompensate and try to take more hair out than would be otherwise needed due to the higher damage rate. If care isn’t taken or experience is lacking, the donor area can be overly harvested meaning the back of the head becomes very ‘gappy’ and scarred in afro hair type patients. It is important to chose a clinic and surgeon who can show you successful work on afro patients, including the donor area after surgery.
Some famous patients with afro hair type like Conor Benn, James DeGale and Ben Whittaker have chosen British clinics to undergo hair transplants. It is important to chose the best clinic and surgeon that has experience in dealing with what is traditionally considered more ‘difficult hair types’ to work with.
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Afro hair can make the work of the surgeon and his surgical assistants more difficult. The error rates in extracting curly (afro-hair) are therefore higher than in straight hair types.
This explains why it is rare to find surgeons and clinics that can show the results of a range of successful afro-hair transplant patients. Some hair transplant surgeons and clinic’s refuse to do hair transplants on afro-hair types or curly hair.
Rest assured, at the British Hair Clinic, our skilled surgeons and their assistants are trained to deal with afro-hair and curly hair types. See some the amazing afro-hair type results we achieve routinely at the British Hair Clinic. It is for this reason we are the leading clinic for afro-curly hair transplants in the UK.
