Hair Transplant Doctor? Hair Transplant Specialist? What Does It Matter?

If you are considering a Bay Area hair transplant you are not alone. Many Bay Area men – and women too – suffer from hair loss, and the answer is a hair transplant. However, when you start to look around, what should you search for?

Some people look for Bay Area hair transplant doctors, some look for hair transplant surgeons, some look for hair transplant specialists, but it really doesn’t matter what you call them. They are all of those. What you are looking for is the BEST of the Bay Area hair transplant doctors, and in that case you are looking for our own, Dr Miguel Canales of Silicon Valley Hair Institute.

That’s a bold claim, but it happens to be true. Up until a few years ago, the only way you could get a hair transplant was from a hair transplant specialist who painstakingly transplanted hairs from the back of your head by hand and implanted them into the recipient area which was balding. It was, and still is, a very skilled operation, as you can imagine. A strip of hair from the back of the head was removed and then divided up into tiny units of perhaps between one and four hairs, and these were then inserted where required.

Disadvantages

Unfortunately, it had some disadvantages, not the least of which was that where the strip of hair was removed it left a nasty scar which could make it embarrassing if you wanted to wear your hair short and it didn’t cover the scar.

It is also very difficult indeed to insert the hair in the recipient area at the exact angle, elevation, and direction of any existing hairs in the area. Furthermore, a hair transplant can take several hours, and the surgeon would obviously tire, leading to unforced errors.

However, Dr Canales has overcome all that. He was the Medical Director of Restoration Robotics Inc., which was the company that invented what is now known as the ARTAS robot and is a computerized machine that carries out the transplant automatically. It doesn’t require taking a strip of hair from the back of the head because it is so precise that it can harvest a tiny group of one to four hairs one at a time and transplant them in exactly the right way to match any existing hair in the recipient area, leaving no visible scar.

Clever, huh?

So if you are looking for Bay Area hair transplant doctors – or surgeons, specialists, or anything else you want to call them – just search for Silicon Valley Hair Institute instead. Dr Canales has an office in Foster City and another in Palo Alto so wherever you are in the Bay Area you are guaranteed the best hair transplant.