Although being sold as looking natural as your own hair, it has a lot of problems and is not at all preferred by most of the Hair transplant surgeons.
What are the problems of biofibre hair transplant?
- Development of allergies/ irritation to the patients in biofibre hair transplant: Once the birofibre is implanted in the skin of the scalp, there is no way to effectively remove it. So if you develop allergy to the fibre material, then you require long term, and I mean a really long term allergy treatment. In spite of the treatment, sometimes the scalp skin is significantly damaged and scarring occurs. If scarring occurs, then even if you want to do a FUE hair transplant, it wont work as well
- You cant cut these hairs: Biofibre do not grow and hence if they are cut, thats the end of the fibre, they will not grow back.
- Infections: Infections in the biofibre implantations are notoriously hard to treat.
So where is biofibre hair transplant really of any use?
Biofibre hair transplant although has a lot of problems, it might have some use in the hair loss treatment.
- Alternative for hair transplant: If a Norwood Stage VII, which is basically completely bald person, there