The aesthetic appeal of hair is undeniable. Hairstyle is an integral part of your fashion statement. The same holds good for men with both scalp hair and facial hair including beard, mustache and sidelocks. Now when your skin gets burnt, keeping the physical trauma aside, there is one more thing which bothers you the most – the cosmetic outlook after recovery, which also includes the growth of hair.
If you really think about it, having a burn scar is worse than a regular hair loss. Hair loss is generally uniform but a burn scar just sticks out. Just imagine, you have a thick and dense growth of mustache, styled just the way you want, but then one thin portion just stays bald; no hair! It’s like that burn scar drowns your entire fashion sense in an ocean-deep water.
So, this is the thing – if it’s a small scar high up in your scalp, you can hide it. But if it is near your forehead or on your face, it will catch people’s attention and hence, you need to look out for solutions.
Some people try home remedies but the general notion is that you cannot grow hair on a burn scar. Well, until very recently, that was the truth. But then, medical science caught up!
But first, let understand the complication.
Why hair doesn’t (naturally) grow on burnt areas?
Complications arise when the skin is burnt. If you burn just your hair, rest assured that hair will grow back in due time. But what happens in a burnt area? When a portion of the skin is burnt, the underlying living hair follicles also burn out. An hair follicle is like the root of a hair. Even if you shave hair off, the hair grows back from the hair follicle under the skin. But if the hair follicle is dead, the hair cannot grow back. So, when you burn your skin and you have got a burn scar, the area is devoid of any live hair follicle and hence, there is no hair growth. This is the same technique used in laser hair removal – using light, they burn out the living hair follicle inside.
What are your options for burn scars?
Your options for growing hair in burn scars are extremely limited. None of the traditional ways can grow hair on scar tissue. No home remedy, no topical medicines, no steroids will work. Nothing, yet, can grow hair in a scar tissue, not even surgeries.
But, something new has come up – Hair Transplant Surgery!
How can Hair Transplant Surgery help?
If your hair follicles are only injured and not dead yet, a regular hair transplant surgery can help you to regrow your hair faster. When the tissues are alive, fresh hair follicles can be harvested from a different place in your body and planted in the target area replacing the injured hair follicles.
But, if the original tissue and the hair follicles die, and scar tissue grown instead of it, the situation become a little complicated. In this case, your trichologist will try to expand the live tissue around the scarred one using various techniques.
This way, the live tissue will stretch towards the burn scar. While a slit of scar tissue will still remain, it can be reduced to its minimum extent. Now, over the newly expanded live tissue, growing hair using hair transplant surgery is not a complicated procedure at all. When hair grows in the surrounding area, the hair-thin scar will easily be concealed. Unless you shave the hair around your burn scar or cut it extremely short, you problem of no hair growth in burn scar is solved!
At Hair sure, we have the best Trichologists and Cosmetologists who are highly experienced in dealing with cases of hair transplant in scar tissues like burn scar, scar from injury etc. We have solutions for both old and new, small and large scars. You can talk openly to our doctors about your issues.
If you want to grow hair in your scarred parts, Book an Appointment today!
About The Clinic:
HairSure is one of the leading hair clinics at Habsiguda, Hyderabad and we have the best Hair Transplant Surgeons in Hyderabad practising at HairSure. Trichologists at the HairSure Clinic are experts in hair transplantation and PRP treatment etc. Two of our leading doctors are known to be the best trichologists in Hyderabad.
