Over the years hair transplant procedures have evolved greatly. Nowadays, the results and success rate of hair transplant surgeries have grown so much beyond the several years prior that. This kind of surgery was a simple result out of a doctor’s desire to transplant hair to give people new sets of eyebrows.
Many years ago, Dr. Okuda, a Japanese doctor busied himself trying to provide new sets of eyebrows for people who have lost theirs due to accidents and other traumatic incidences. This happened before the World War II. However, when the war broke out, he was left with no choice but to temporarily set aside his desire to provide hair transplant for victims.
Dr. Norman Orentreich, published on the use of hair transplant surgery in 1959. This year marked his attempt at trying to move balding-proof hair follicles to the balding areas of the patient’s head. The hairs found at the back and sides of the head were used to accomplish this.

With this, the doctors tried to determine two things. First, are the hair follicles the cause for balding resistant because of its location and second, is it due to something inherent in the follicles itself.
After undergoing several trials, the answer became clear. It is indeed the hair follicles that made the hair’s life and not their position or placing on the scalp. This phenomenon was then named as Donor Dominance and eventually hair transplant surgery came into practice.

After the experiment, several doctors immediately started out learning the procedure. They started out with a flawed method of moving hair from the sides and back of the head to the balding spots but were not rewarded with great results.
In the 1960s and on to the 1970s, various hair transplant procedures were grafted in a round plug pattern. These plugs seemed to be unsightly. The procedure made it seem very obvious that the person is using hair plugs, something that can demean a person’s confidence. Not only are they unsightly, they also permanent.
Thanks to the developments in the year 1980s, improvements were made pertaining to hair transplant procedures. Grafts were improved, however, hair plugs are still very much visible.

Over the years, the grafts being used by most surgeons diminished. It usually takes about 1 to 8 hairs for hair transplants. About 800 grafts can now be done in just one sitting. Of course this can still be improved, since the results do not seem to look very natural still.

The newest method for hair transplant that is being used by more doctors today is what is also known as the follicle unit micro grafting. This type of procedure requires about 1 to 4 hairs to be placed over balding spots. By doing this, it would certainly appear for the grafts to look much more natural on the hair.
Nowadays, it can be said that a hair transplant surgery can indeed bring about results and not many people are aware of this. Over the years, it has evolved from being just an experiment to becoming something more that is useful and dependable at present.