Hair Transplantation
Conveniently located to serve Danville, San Ramon, Dublin, Walnut Creek, and the entire San Francisco Bay Area.
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Thinning hair and receding hairlines can be devastating to both men and women because a full head of hair is associated with vitality and attractiveness. But the fact is about 40 million men and 21 million women suffer from baldness or thinning hair. Fortunately, hair transplantation techniques have reached an advanced level which mean procedures are minimally invasive and can be carried out under local anesthesia with no sutures or linear scars. You don’t have to have the plug look or a long scar in the donor site. The results are completely natural and long-lasting.
- No sutures or staples
- Local anesthesia
- 1mm incisions that leave little or no scar
- Natural results – both men and women can wear their hair short afterwards
- Quick recovery and return to normal activites
- Fewer restrictions on post-op activities
- Minimal post-op pain
- Long incisions
- Linear scar on back of head
- Numbness at donor site
- Staples or sutures
- Longer recovery
- Activity restriction
- Strips of hair chopped up
- Plugs
Traditionally, hair has been taken in large strips from the back of the head, chopped up into little (or not so little) pieces and then planted. The downside of this is a large scar, numbness, and other potential donor site issues. The recovery is longer. Results varied from a plug look to excellent.
A newer method of transplantation is Follicular Unit Extraction or FUE. In this technique, the hair is harvested with a tiny punch to remove one follicular unit at a time. The follicular unit has one or a few hairs in it. When done manually, this takes an incredible amount of time. Newer automated technology allows us to remove and graft a very large number of grafts in a single setting. The process is simple, faster, and more effective. Dr Ronan believes that FUE hair transplantation is now the state-of-the-art procedure. The minimally invasive hair transplant procedure is done completely under local anesthesia. There are no sutures or linear incisions and recovery is very fast. There is little post-operative pain. There is little risk of any long-term numbness. The grafts are taken from the back of the head (where you are unlikely to lose hair) with a device that is less than 1 mm diameter. The tiny hole doesn’t need suturing. The grafts are placed into a needle stick and are held in place without sutures. The delicate grafts are handled by the machine and inserted pneumatically so that they are less likely to be injured (which means a higher amount of ‘take’ or success). Typically, people don’t develop scarring from needle sticks so no one can even tell you had it done. Some patients even return to work the next day.
Watch a slide show of the procedure taken by a patient.
Patient Examples
Patient 1
This patient had 3061 grafts. This photo was taken at eight months, complete results will be seen at one-year mark.
*Individual results may vary
Patient 2
*Individual results may vary
Stephen J. Ronan, MD FACS
An award-winning plastic surgeon performing thousands of surgery procedures every year in the Blackhawk Surgery Center, Stephen J. Ronan MD FACS, has been named one of the Top Plastic Surgeons in America by the nation’s leading providers of information on doctors. He was also voted Best in The Bay, and one of the Top 3 Hair Restoration Surgeons in America 2015, by Aesthetic Everything Beauty Network, a panel of industry leaders and fellow surgeons.
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Your Hair Transplantation will be performed in Dr. Ronan’s surgery center located in Danville.
*Individual results may vary
