DUSHANBE, July 29, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- Hair transplant surgeries will be performed in Tajikistan starting September this year, Tajik Medical University Chancellor Ubaidullo Qurbonov said in an interview with Asia-Plus.

According to him, six hair transplant surgeries performed in Dushanbe this year were successful.  “Therefore, we have decided to widely use this practice and prove that Tajik specialists are not any worse than the foreign ones,” the chancellor said, noting that the first transplant surgery was performed on May 13 this year.

Professor Qurbonov, who is known Tajik microsurgeon, also heads the reconstructive microsurgery department within the Republican Center for Cardiovascular and Chest Surgery.  On My 13, he and his colleagues performed hair transplant operations on three patients.  The operations that lasted four to six hours each were successful.

Hair transplantation is a surgical technique that involves moving skin containing hair follicles from one part of the body (the donor site) to bald or balding parts (the recipient site).  It is primarily used to treat male pattern baldness, whereby grafts containing hair follicles that are genetically resistant to balding are transplanted to bald scalp.  However, it is also used to restore eyelashes, eyebrows, and beard hair, and to fill in scars caused by accidents and surgery such as face-lifts and previous hair transplants.  Hair transplantation differs from skin grafting in that grafts contain almost all of the epidermis and dermis surrounding the hair follicle, and many tiny grafts are transplanted rather than a single strip of skin.