What’s Better For A Long, Narrow Forehead? Hairline Lowering Surgery or Hairline Correction Surgery? - Hair Transplant

The reasons why people consider getting a hairline lowering surgery over a hairline correction surgery

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Filling the broad forehead with a hairline correction surgery is super expensive.

Hairline Correction Surgeries eliminate baby hair and make the hairline weird.

The transplanted front hair grows sparsely.

The hairline lowering surgery leaves the hairline as is and only reduces the forehead width.

It is cheaper than a mass hair transplant.

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Are they really true? Let me answer them one by one.

Will the hairline lowering surgery reduce the forehead as much as I want?

Hairline Lowering Surgery is a method of making an incision of the skin in the broad forehead, pulling as much as the width you wish to shorten, and closing around the hairline. However, the range of the skin tissues you can incise, pull, and close is smaller than you think. You cannot pull human skin that much like a rubber. This is why some people get disappointed by the result of a hairline lowering surgery.

Will the scars on the hairline disappear after the hairline lowering surgery?

Hairline lowering surgeries leave incision marks after suturing the hairline border,

and they stay for a long time. The scarred tissue with the shiny texture becomes noticeable once you pull up your hair. Therefore, you go back to the idea of a hairline correction surgery to hide these marks. That’s why many people get hairline correction surgery after a hairline lowering surgery.

↑ A client who visited to improve the Hairline scars and the remaining long,
awkward-looking forehead

There are clinics that provide both hairline lowering and hairline correction surgeries. But transplanting hair on scarred tissue requires a particularly highly advanced skill of high-density hair transplant. Many clinics commonly say that scarred areas cannot grow hair well through a follicle transplant. Sometimes, they transplant hair when they cannot do it densely enough. Then, the scars will remain visible.

Are there any other side effects of a hairline lowering surgery?

A hairline lowering surgery is to reduce the forehead height slightly in the front view. The side hairlines, their shape, and their width can still be disappointing and awkward. In the case of M-shaped angles, it is very difficult to fix it through a hairline lowering surgery.

Rather, the nerves right under the skin often get damaged during the FUSS(FUT) stage. As a result, you may experience some abnormal nerve symptoms that can make the hairline region numb or itchy for a while.

Endoscopic forehead lift, a method to reduce the forehead while looking at the skin tissue using an endoscope, also leaves surgical scars. It is not suitable if you don’t need to pull the forehead wrinkles or drooped eyelids as well. Some people experience an unexpected reaction to Endotine, the set screw used in this surgery to anchor the skin as it’s pulled.

In other cases, the hair in the front becomes so sparse because the existing hair follicles drop out due to the surgical stimulus around the hairline after a hairline lowering surgery.

Is there any issue with a hairline correction surgery for reducing the forehead?

I’m not saying that hairline correction surgery is problem-free compared to hairline lowering surgeries. There are cases where the front hair becomes sparse after a hairline correction surgery done on a broad, long forehead, or the hairline becomes awkward with the thick hair sticking out in front. Sometimes, people experience weird symptoms in the occipital regions if the doctor damages the nerves while harvesting follicles.

The important thing is to meet the right doctor with abundant experience and skills in all stages of hairline correction surgeries, from designing to harvesting and transplanting!!

Check the crucial know-how for making a natural-looking hairline while reducing the broad, long forehead.

1. The know-how of hairline correction surgeries

Any doctor with thousands of hairline correction surgery experience and facial plastic surgery skills can create an ideal forehead proportion and a harmonious overall line that consists of a realistic, natural-looking hairline and sideburns. That can even achieve the effect of a facial bone structure surgery.

Designing the overall hairline will prevent the unfortunate cases of reducing the sides only but not the middle part of the forehead or making weird-looking sides.

2. The know-how for mass follicle harvest

Hairline correction surgeries to reduce broad forehead usually require about 2,700 to 3,000 hair to be transplanted. When it comes to harvesting a big volume of hair, the speed in harvesting hair in different thicknesses, including baby hair, is essential.

Also, making an incision to harvest a huge volume of hair from the back of the hair must be done intentionally. The incision should not be long or big to prevent the scar from becoming noticeable. The surgeon must be capable of harvesting a high volume of follicles using the non-shaving, FUE method as well to make the harvest balanced to keep the hair density in the back as well.

3. Transplant high-volume follicles steadily from baby hair to thicker hair, accomplishing a natural gradation.

Since mass follicle transplant takes time, the speed of the transplant impacts the follicle engraftment rate. If it isn’t transplanted quickly, the hair cannot grow properly. This is why the hair becomes sparse on the hairline.

However, unlike a crown hair transplant, hairline correction for both men and women requires the natural-looking thickness gradation of hair from baby hair and thin hair to thicker hair starting from the front. For a doctor who only uses hair implanters, baby hair cannot be transplanted. You must make holes(SLIT) for each follicle by its thickness and transplant each follicle with forceps delicately according to its angle and depth one by one.

The skill to transplant follicles one by one delicately while operating a mass transplant at a swift speed is very highly advanced. However, it is necessary to check these things to improve your broad forehead with a natural-looking front hairline.

Hairline lowering surgery or hairline correction surgery, which one is beneficial?

The rumor that a mass hair transplant for hairline correction surgery is more costly than a hairline lowering surgery is true if you compare the two at the surface level. But if you consider the surgery outcome and various problems, it might actually be false.

Mo&Line Plastic Surgery’s director, Lee Byung-Kwon, has a lot of experience in improving hairlines through hairline correction surgery. He has helped countless clients distressed and concerned about their awkward hairlines and scars after getting hairline lowering surgery. If they assessed the disadvantages of hairline lowering or normal hairline correction surgery, they wouldn’t have ended up getting both hairline lowering and correction surgeries.

It is an exaggerated rumor that hairline lowering surgeries can guarantee a quicker result compared to a hairline correction surgery, which requires time for hair to grow. After a forehead plastic surgery, you need to let down your bangs for a while due to the swollenness after the surgery, noticeable scars, and redness. A hairline correction surgery is not a skin incision surgery; those surgical marks do not show. With the EGF sprayed over the scar areas from right after the surgery, they can recover quickly.

After a hairline correction surgery, you can still style your bang well to make sure nobody notices it during the 4 months of waiting for the hair to grow out. You can get the follicles transplanted without any shaving, as well. This is the hairline correction method that the director, Lee Byung-kwon uses for celebrities who have filming or photo shoots right after the surgery.

Consult with Mo&Line Plastic Surgery’s director, Lee Byung-kwon, who can reduce broad foreheads and make smaller faces with a natural-looking hairline correction. Check the facts and make a wise decision!! Covering the scars of a hairline lowering surgery, and improving the hairline are more than possible with the director Lee Byung-kwon’s experience and skills.

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