Hair Transplant is Risky or Safe: Hair fall or baldness is a problem that is increasing in both men and women. Even after millions of efforts, people whose hair fall does not stop, they get hair transplant done. Hair transplant is a minor surgery that a hair transplant surgeon, skin surgeon or plastic surgeon. Recently a case of Kanpur has come up in which an engineer has lost his life after a hair transplant. In such a situation, questions have arisen in the minds of people who have done every hair transplant, how safe it is?
To know about the hair transplant, we talked to Delhi’s Hair Transplant Surgeon and Dermatologist Dr. Gaurang Krishna and know how safe the hair transplant is and how to transplant training.
Doctor’s opinion in Kanpur case
Talking about the case, Hair Transplant Surgeon Dr. Gaurang Krishna said, ‘Seeing all the information that has come out so far, it seems that the anesthesia has been used very much in this case or maybe he has also been allergic to anesthesia. Because I had read about the case that the head had immediately had a swailing and after that his surgery also went on long. In surgery, the neck was kept in a hyper extension i.e. crooked positions which should not be done for a long time because it also brings cervical problem and it also stops blood flow. So it may be, for a long time there has been a neck in the same situation and has been infected, due to which all these problems came.
‘It has been heard that the doctor who was a hair transplant was a dentist. Now the order of the Supreme Court is that the hair transplant should only do dermatologist or plastic surgeon. Or ENT surgeons in India can also transplant hair. But now dental doctors were doing this case. The Dental Council of India has released the ed that the maxilofacial surgeons can be transplanted because they can also do hair transplant if they do face surgery.
‘According to me, it can be a bit wrong because when skin surgeries, plastic surgery training is imparted, how and how much should the blood be out, how much should the anesthesia be used, what is the right place to inject anesthesia. Meaning, we are trained by the first day. So gradually it comes to the final level. Maybe dental training may not have so much.
Problem in hair transplant
Dr. Gaurang told, ‘One is okay that you are okay to be qualified. The second is experience. Those who are good surgeons, after practice 10-10, 12-12 years, they feel that yes, now it has come to transplant. Now there is a man who is qualified, but he does not know what to do, how to do it. How to do Early Diagnos to the problem? ‘
‘Those who have practiced good, they know within 1 second that something is wrong and we immediately take action accordingly. But those who do not have so much practice goes all the time to know. The second biggest problem has been done nowadays in the transplant that all the work is left over the technician.
Pacific said to the technician that it was hurting, he immediately applied anesthesia. Neither do they see that he is going into the skin, not going in the blood. All these problems which should not come in hair transplant. When these problems come, then the passenger has to bear the brunt of it. If someone does not know how to transplant, then all these problems come. All these problems do not occur in transplant or in minor skin procedure.
How is hair transplant training?
Dr. Gaurang said, ‘After MBBS, if we do super specialization, then we do it in dermatology. Dermatology has a separate branch, of dermato surgery. In this, we are given training of skin and hair surgeries. It consists of a separate module in which we speak Dermato Surgery Posting in which we learn to remove skin cancer, extract tumor, remove cysts, to do white stain surgery. Nowadays, the good centers that are of my training AIIMS, so we started hair transplant at that time that let us know how they do.
‘The rest of the cosmetic surgery, you can go out and do it outside the country. Now training has started taking place in India too, but it was not done 15 years ago. We used to go out and learn what is the right way, what are the safety mazars. So all this was learned and it takes a lot of time. Good hair transplant training takes 2 years.
‘The problem in transplant training is that nowadays people have started doing surgery by looking at YouTube that it is easy, let’s do it. At the same time, there is a technician who has an experience of 4-5 years, keeps it and starts surgery with his help, but it is not so simple.
‘Hair transplant and plastic surgeon training is also very expensive. Those people train in their reconstructive surgery, but how to follow the protocol in the operation theater, how should cleanliness be. If a problem comes, then the emergency should be ready. All this is done by all this during the same domo surgery or plastic surgery training.
‘If we already bring training, then we do not know these types of complexities. At the same time, how your equipment is in the operation theater, how advanced you are, these are also part of successful surgery. Hair transplant is a minor procedure. It does not make it unconscious but by numbness, but still the guideline is that you have to be ready for every possible complications. Therefore, our training, training of every staff of our staff is also done in Basic Life Support Training, Advance Life Support Training.
‘You should also have the equipment that should be needed in emergency. Many clinics invest in equipment which will not be needed even for the next 5000 days but may be needed on the 5001st day. The rules do not follow unfortured 90 % place and then such tragic incidents come out.