How does the DHI No Touch Technique works? |
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The DHI System is the perfect fusion of art and science. Its three key elements—Research, Diagnosis, and Treatment—give each patient a new and advanced solution to achieve timely, natural results. A DHI Alopecia Hair Loss Test is performed before the procedure (to judge the degree and rate of hair loss), along with skin examinations of the recipient and donor sites, extensive measurements and precise, custom design.
The DHI No Touch Technique works as follows:
Two doctors work on every case to remove follicles in naturally occurring bundles as well as available single hair follicles from the sides and back of the head, which comprise the donor site. We use a small pen-like device to remove the follicles after the area has been anesthetized with local anesthetic, the same which the dentist uses. We work in the top layer of the skin, the epidermis, so only very little anesthetic is needed.
In general, we remove three out of ten follicular units if needed, taken randomly from all of the donor site in order not to thin a specific area.
The follicles in the donor site are resilient to testosterone, therefore they will never fall or become thin when relocated to the thinning area.
We place follicles using the DHI Implanter, which is similar to a pen with a very fine needle. Our philosophy is to not cut the skin with a blade or scalpel as this creates scarring. With this tools, we are able to place the follicle at the correct angle, usually forward at 45 to 55 degrees.
You can expect 80% to 90% of the follicles to grow within 10 months as stated on the guarantee we provide.
Our clients range from 22 to 65. As long as one’s donor site is good, this procedure is available to all.
We encourage you to speak to our clients who have undergone the procedure. Contact information is available upon request.
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Real Differences Between the DHI System™ and FUE |
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In the last decade, there have been great advances in the field of hair restoration.
2002 saw the introduction of Follicular Unit Extraction, with DHI among the innovators.
After years of refinement, DHI replaced FUE in 2004 with the DHI No Touch Technique™, the centerpiece of the DHI System™.
This new system offers many advances over FUE.
Here are just a few:
By definition, FUE means Follicular Unit Extraction. No specific or uniform advances in placement are included. Most often, forceps are used for placement.
In addition to specialized tools for extraction, DHI No Touch utilizes the DHI Implanter to precisely control placement, depth, and direction of implanted hair, creating a totally natural hairline free from pitting and discoloration sometimes associated with FUE and other traditional methods.
DHI’s surgeons can remove up to 6000 individual hairs in one session. FUE is limited to under 2000 hairs per day, extracted in bunches of up to 5 hairs.
FUE patients are obliged to shave the entire scalp prior to the procedure. The DHI No Touch allows for hair restoration without shaving.
DHI No Touch can be applied to all hair types. FUE candidates are required to submit to a test to determine if their hair type is compatible with FUE.
At DHI, doctors perform the entire procedure. Standard FUE protocol uses a team of nurses to handle most of the work with the scalp and grafts.
FUE is available in different forms at specific clinics, while the DHI No Touch Technique™ is part of the DHI System™ offered uniformly by highly specialized clinics around the world.
The DHI System™ provides a comprehensive system to all scalp conditions and degrees of hair loss and is fully guaranteed.
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How does the body produce healthy hair? |
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Hair forms and grows inside a protective encasement called the follicle. The average person has approximately 100,000 scalp hair, this will vary depending on the colour and texture of the hair.
Hair grows in naturally formed follicular units of between one to four hair. This recent discovery has helped create a new method of hair re-growth treatment called Follicular Hair Transplatation, this advanced form of treatment is offered at DHI Global Hair Network clinics around the world.
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What is the hair cycle? |
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The hair begins its cycle at the Anagen (growth) phase, which lasts between 2 to 6 years. The next phase is the Catagen (non-growth) phase, which lasts between 2 to 6 weeks, during this period the hair begins to pull away from the follicle.
Following the Catagen phase is the Telogen (hair loss) phase, which lasts between 3 to 4 months, during this period the hair pulls away from the root area as a new anagen hair is forming, pushing the telogen hair out of the follicle, consequently causing the anagen growth phase to begin again.
The microscopic analysis of hair follicle specimens from various areas of the scalp is called a trichogram, this is a basic analysis helpful in learning the extent of hair growth or hair loss. When combined with a medical examination and other diagnostic procedures, the trichogram aids the diagnostic M.D. to arrive at an accurate diagnosis.
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How many hair are lost daily? |
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On average we lose 100 to 150 hairs daily, fortunately most of this hair re-grows because the follicles remain healthy and intact.
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What are the causes of hair loss? |
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Numerous factors contribute to the cause of hair loss : Scalp bacteria, stress, poor nutrition, genetic baldness (affecting men and women) and hormonal imbalance. In many cases, hair loss may be caused by a combination of these factors but genetic pattern baldness is by far the most dominant factor, accounting for nearly 95% of all hair loss in men, as well as affecting millions of women.
Though male pattern baldness is treatable it cannot be cured as it is genetically predetermined. The DHI Global Hair Network diagnostic procedures (medical and dermatological examinations, trichogram, hair densitometry, etc.) are essential in correctly defining the type of hair loss.
A great result is only possible if a correct diagnosis has been established.
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What can I expect during my hair transplant procedure? |
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You will be the focus of everyone's attention during the procedure and everything possible will be done to ensure your comfort. You may take frequent breaks, use the restroom at any time, and rest during the procedure as if you were taking a nap. The entire procedure is carried out under local anesthesia to ensure you are fully aware and can ask questions throughout the procedure. In addition, we will allow you frequent opportunities to see the follicles after placement to see how they are perfectly placed to match the existing arrangement, orientation, growth angle, and direction of your natural hair.
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Body hair transplantation? How does it work? |
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If you have a good donor site at the back and sides of the head, you can begin with your first procedure now and continue to restore your hair as needed in the future. The donor site usually will provide you with more than enough hair for a second and third procedure. The donor site is the zone at the back of the head (in a specific area used by the surgeon) that remains with you through your life, usually thinning only 15% during the course of your life. This means that usually you will still have enough hair to replace further lost hair in the future. We strongly recommend medical treatment for hair loss to help slow down or stop hair loss and maximize the results of each surgery.
If your donor site has been damaged from previous strip surgeries or you have an advanced stage of hair loss, we can now move hair follicles from nearly every part of the body such as the back and chest with the new DHI Direct Hair Implantation technique. Most body hair looks and feels just like your own head hair after it’s moved to the scalp. In fact, we’ve found that body hair that only grows an inch or two on the body often grows just as long as head hair after the transplant. It eliminates hair from places where we don’t want it such as the chest and back it and moves it to where we need it on the scalp.
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How do I get started? |
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We recommend that you begin by replacing your lost hair now in order to have an appearance with which you're satisfied enough to enjoy everything your life has to offer. If further work is needed, the DHI Direct Hair Implantation technique is minimally invasive and follow up work can be done at any time at your convenience.
With the DHI Direct Hair Implantation technique everyone can gradually restore his hair as finances allow. The technique is so minimally invasive that you can have as much or as little work performed as desired per surgery.
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Why should I start now? |
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You will find our rate for the DHI Direct Hair Implantation techniques in Athens is less than what some doctors charge for standard strip procedures. While other doctors have been raising their FUE prices, DHI has been improving the efficiency of our operation daily to reduce the price and make the new DHI Direct Hair Implantation technique available for everyone. Having two doctors working on one patient all day is a costly exercise for us. With regular strip donor extraction procedures used at most clinics, one doctor and a team of nurses can operate on three patients daily. Even though we are diligently working every day to improve our procedure, we won't be able to maintain this special price forever. As you can see, now is the best time there is to begin restoring your hair.
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Will my new hair look natural? |
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The DHI Technique is absolutely natural and it will not be possible to see a difference between your own hair and the transplants.
Naturally, one's hair will never look as thick and full as it did in the teenage years. However, transferred hair is completely healthy and natural in appearance. Even a person with a substantially receding hairline and large bald areas can receive very good coverage with this method.
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Is D.H.I. painful and when will I see hair regrowth? |
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New advances have made the procedure virtually painless. The patient can listen to music, watch TV and enjoy a light lunch during the procedure, which is completed in 4 to 6 hours. Bandaging is not necessary following the procedure, allowing the patient to leave the clinic looking just as he did on entering. Hair regrowth will be seen after 16 weeks, depending in part on how quickly the capillaries form around the newly relocated follicular units. This newly transferred hair grows naturally in its new location for the rest of the patient's life.
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How many sessions will be necessary before my hair restoration is complete? |
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That depends on the size of the balding area, donor yield and the goal of the patient. In order to achieve a greater density we suggest 2 sessions. With the aid of Densitometry, using specially designed equipment together with simple mathematics, the patient is fully informed of his total available donor hair.
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How dense will the new hair be? |
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In each session, the follicles are inserted between existing hairs or previously placed hairs. Follicles can generally be placed up to 1mm apart.
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Can grey hair be transplanted to the thinning area? |
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Yes, of course this is no problem at all. If however the hairs are very white, we may need to temporarily dye the hairs with henna in order for the medical team to be able to find the hair and follicles more easily in the extraction part of the procedure.
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Why wait until you are completely bald? |
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The insertion of follicles between your existing hair, leaving it undisturbed can systematically restore density to the scalp hair. Thus the Follicular Hair Transplantation procedure replaces the lost hair in the balding region.
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Are most patients genuinely happy with their DHI results? |
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Patients are extremely happy with their new look and enjoy increased self-confidence. The most significant benefit of Microscopic Follicular Hair Transplantation is the renewed self-esteem that comes with the knowledge that one's hair looks good. The most common complaint is "Why didn't I do this sooner?"
Plan to attend a DHI Seminar in the near future and meet a number of real DHI patients.
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Does one need to take a vacation after treatment? |
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The day following treatment our staff wash the head and one is then able to return to work. It is essential to use the specially designed "Pre-Post F.H.R. shampoo" post F.H.R. treatment for optimum results. The Hair Break program is of course a unique way to organise your new hair experience.
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Is D.H.I. expensive compared to other hair replacement methods? |
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We endeavour to ensure that cost is not a deterrent to a person considering hair replacement procedures, the procedures fees are cost effective in comparison to the expense of hair replacement units or hairpieces and their continuous maintenance costs.
This is a lifetime investment and quality results should be your primary concern.
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Are there future innovations in development? |
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Hair follicle cloning is an exciting concept that is still in the early development stage. Other possible future innovations may include automatic devices in the unit implantation process. Research is being conducted on the genetic code of the hair follicle and we are proud to have the leading scientist of this research project on our board : Prof. Jung-Chul Kim of the Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Korea.
Dr Yung Chul Kim, one of the world's most authoritative figures in the research of human DNA, hair follicle cloning and hair multiplication visits DHI in November for the collaboration of various research projects.
We are pleased to announce that our longstanding and much respected colleague Dr Jung Chul Kim (PhD) of Seoul University will be with us again in early November.
For many years we have worked closely with Dr Kim and followed his hair multiplication and follicle cloning research projects carefully.
We will be able to update you his projects and results very soon and we look forward to sharing some of his unique scientific insights with you.
Dr Kim and the DHI research and development scientific team will present a number of fascinating findings at lecture sessions throughout November.
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What are the side effects of this procedure? |
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• Local anesthetic can cause swelling of the forehead for 3 - 4 days post procedure. There is no pain or danger and only 10% of patients incur this side effect. Swelling subsides within 3 days. Massaging the forehead out to the sides can help.
• Numbness in the donor site can occur for some months post procedure, it is quite normal.
• Some patient’s develop small red individual spots in some areas of the head some months post procedure. This is an irritation of the skin and can be cleared up easily by using Betadine medicated shampoo once a day for 4 days (during this period no other shampoos or hair products should be used on the head).
• If an infection occurs it is necessary to ask your doctor to prescribe antibiotics. The usual reason for infections is that the patient is not washing the scalp thoroughly / hard enough and that a build up of dead skin blocks the new hairs from coming through, causing infection. It is EXTREMELY important for the first 4 months to wash the scalp very thoroughly in order to avoid this. The main thing to remember is that the scalp needs to be thoroughly free of dead / dry skin built up.
• It is normal for some of the newly placed hairs that were attached to the new follicular units will fall out within the first 4-8 weeks post procedure. Do not be concerned as this is normal. After the hair has fallen, a new growth cycle begins, bringing the earliest hairs through within 2-4 months. The newly placed hairs will be full grown between 8-10 months following the procedure.
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Do you have the moth-like look of the back of your head due to the large number of extracted follicles? |
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Absolutely not. The extraction instrument is minimally invasive, the healing is extremely rapid and one cannot tell if you have done something to your head, five days after the procedure.
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How can someone detect that you had an operation? |
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The first days after the session, there are visible tiny red spots in the donor and recipient area which gradually heal and disappear in one week.
After that period, there is no visible sign, scarring or stitch to either the donor or recipient area.
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Do you have to be very gentle few days after the procedure not to damage new hair follicles? |
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Your doctor and consultant will provide you with the necessary post-op full set of instructions. In general, you have to avoid strenuous exercise for 7 days following the procedure or expose your head to strong direct sunlight for 14 days.
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Will the DHI Doctor be there for you in case something goes wrong (i.e. infection)? |
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The DHI doctor is available at any time to be contacted and help you at any situation.
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My hair is thinning on top. Should I wait until I lose all of my hair? |
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You may begin implanting hair in the thinning area of the scalp.
There is no need to wait until you completely lose your hair. One can always return for more implants to replace the lost hairs.
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Would it affect the hair now if I did the operation? |
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The operation would not affect the hair you have now.
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