Camouflage is the best technique to repair the hair transplant damage

Camouflage procedure has been introduced to the covering up of unsightly hair grafts with a natural look, so it is also known as the best hair transplant repair procedure. The camouflage technique can be used alone, or in combination with other techniques to repair, such as hair graft excision. The camouflage can be used as a separate technique if the transplanted hair grafts to be camouflaged are located too far from hairline. If the transplanted hair grafts have not located in a proper direction or not too large, then this method is used to repair the damage of the hair transplant surgery. If hair grafts need to be removed, it is best to do a camouflage method as the final step.

Although most hair grafts that require to be camouflaged were transplanted by using the old technique called “plug”. In the old plug technique, almost all hair grafts that are extremely larger than naturally-occurring FU (of 1-4 hairs) will require to be camouflaged to get the most natural hair transplanted results. However, besides plugs technique, hair grafts that caused numerous cosmetic problems include: mini grafts, slit grafts and punch grafts. It is significant to understand that if any transplanted small hair grafts have been placed in the wrong position or at improper angles will look definitely unnatural and must be corrected by the expert surgeon. It is vital to remember that camouflage alone can hardly ever correct hair grafts that are in the wrong position or pointing in the incorrect direction. That’s why all these hair grafts must invariably be removed.

Different camouflage procedures

In the earlier time period, the camouflage technique had been performed by using either micro-grafts or small mini-grafts. But, with the latest development in the FUT and FUE procedures, all camouflage techniques should now be performed by using only an individual FUE to get the best cosmetic results. When the surgeon uses the natural follicular units for camouflage procedure, single-hair units are transplanted at the front side of the hairline, and mostly 2 or 3 hair units are located behind them. These specific 2- and 3-hair follicular units are specially placed right after the larger hair grafts and between them just to fill the extra gaps created with the old technique. The area of the unnatural hair transplant surgery correction will depend on the accessibility of sufficient donor hair reserves.