Hair Replacement Techniques: An Overview

A History of Tissue Expansion

“…The varied applications of tissue expansion include the long term placement of custom fitted expanders in children with soft tissue defects and the gradual expansion of the implants to preserve symmetry in the growing child 65 . Tissue expansion has also been an important hair replacement technique in scalp surgery providing the ability to cover large areas of alopecia with a cosmetically undetectable decrease in hair density 66–70 . Reconstruction of the ear has also been refined 71,72 but remains troublesome as the thick, viability‐sustaining capsule interferes with the cosmetic result.…”