SOFT-TISSUE EXPANSION This is the most recent surgical innovation. Silicon bags are inserted under the skin of the scalp that bears hair, and these are slowly filled with salt Water over a period of 2-4 months. The hair-bearing skin expands thus spreading the hair more thinly but also more widely. The bags are then removed, the bald patch reduced in size by excision; and the stretched skin, with its attendant hair, joined together. This technique is gaining popularity in the USA, despite the fact that the individual has to hide away for around four months While the silicon bags are being inflated. lt is not yet available in the UK.
No figures are available for the success rates of any of the above surgical treatments, as most are carried out in private clinics Whose results are not pooled.
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