Diabetes and Hair Transplant Surgery
Hair transplant surgery with follicular unit transplantation is the gold standard for the treatment of male patterned baldness for most men. There are several conditions a hair transplant surgeon Los Angeles should take into extra consideration before performing a hair transplant surgery. Most of those conditions are skin related problems that may lead to the loss of hair after hair transplant surgery like alopecia areata (AA) or cicatricial alopeica. The patients may experience poor hair growth after hair transplant surgery Los Angeles or they may not grow hair at all. Some systemic diseases may also hinder the full growth of the grafts such as thyroid diseases.
Diabetes is definitely not a contraindication for hair transplant surgery, however, like any other surgery it may delay the healing of the surgical wound. Wound healing problems are not only limited to hair loss treatment Los Angeles, but could be seen in any other skin procedure especially if diabetes is not quite controlled.
Although the rate of wound complications in diabetic patients always stays or seems higher than an average individual, monitoring and close controlling the diabetes around the time of surgery is critical to significantly reduce the rate of wound complications of a Los Angeles hair transplant surgery in diabetic patients.
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