Hair Loss after Face Lift Surgery
Sunday, August 16th, 2009Q:
Scar of face lift surgery
I believe I am a casualty of a brow lift gone wrong. Three and half years after my brow lift surgery, I am seeing extreme hair loss on the top of my head, with itching burning and a crawling sensation at the affected area.
If this conclusion is correct will any treatment stop the hair loss? Will hair transplantation work?
Thank you
A:
Recession of hairline in a male patterned after a face lift surgery
The condition you are describing may be the beginning of cicatricial alopecia or hair loss secondary to a face or brow lift surgery. You need to be seen by a good hair restoration surgeon or dermatologist for a close evaluation. Brow Lift or face lift surgeries require incisions in the scalp that result in scarring and hair loss at the point of incision and around it on the temporal or frontal areas. This hair loss condition could be seen as a complication of the face lift procedure with unknown mechanism.
Although a rare side effect of the face lift surgery, as a hair transplant surgeon with particular experience and interest in scalp scar revisions, I see many patients with hair loss after face lift procedures in our California hair transplant offices. Your condition has two components; 1. the scar of incision in the hairy part of scalp; 2. the loss of hair on the temples and frontal areas. Both these problems can be easily treated with transplanting hair into the scar and on the hair loss areas of the scalp. If the procedure is done through follicular unit transplantation the result should be quite natural.
