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In your first consultation with a practitioner, you should clearly explain your expectations of the hair replacement treatment. Your practitioner should then tell you whether this is the right treatment for you and whether it can achieve the results you’d like.
Make sure that you obtain as much information as necessary to enable you to make a fully informed decision about this procedure.
The practitioner should also ask for your medical history to make sure that there are no reasons why you shouldn’t undergo hair replacement treatment. At this point, you would also normally be asked to sign a consent form which means that you have understood the future benefits and possible risks associated with the procedure.
Photographs of the area to be treated may also be taken by the practitioner for a “before and after” comparison later.
At your next appointment, or sometimes straight after the consultation if you are happy to proceed, the practitioner will start on the design stage of the hair replacement treatment. This is where measurements and details such as hair colour and type are taken to make a custom fit product for each individual.
The hair replacement systems are all hand made and therefore take between 8 and 12 weeks to come back for the final fitting, which can take up to 2 hours. At this point, the hair replacement system is professionally ‘cut in’ to match the style and length of hair you had/want, and blended into your own hair (if you have only partial hair loss) so the finished look is undetectable.
Maintenance of hair replacement systems will be necessary once every 3 to 4 weeks whereby the hair system will need to be removed, cleaned and re-attached. This takes approximately one hour and is a pleasant experience, rather like visiting a regular hairdresser.