Painless Hair Transplants with Needle-Free Anesthesia
Anesthesia is often the only painful aspect of hair transplant surgery. However, patients can opt to undergo needle-free anesthesia to reduce pain and discomfort. Here, you’ll learn more about how needle-free anesthesia works and what it might cost you.
What Is Needle-Free Anesthesia For Hair Transplant?
Needle-free anesthesia uses a jet injector instead of needles to administer local anesthesia during the graft harvesting and incision-making parts of a hair transplant surgery. The goal is to minimise the discomfort patients experience from the injection of anesthesia with traditional needles.
Though the process of numbing itself can be painful when conventional needles are used, you should not experience pain during the procedure. Post-operative discomfort can occur, but your surgeon will prescribe medication for its management.
How Does The Needle-Free Anesthesia Work?
Needle-free anesthesia for hair transplants works by utilising a high-pressure delivery system to introduce the anesthetic agent into the skin, making the process less invasive and enhancing patient comfort.
Benefits of Needle-Free Anesthesia in Hair Transplants
The anesthetic is administered with a jet injector, allowing for rapid absorption and effective numbing of the scalp. This method has seen faster administration of anesthetic in a pain-free manner that not only ensures those with needle phobia can undergo treatment in comfort but relieves the pain of needle insertion.
Needle-free anesthesia can be used for FUE, DHI and Sapphire hair transplants of the scalp.
Is the needle-free method suitable for beard transplantation?
Though needle-free anesthesia can be used to numb your donor area during scalp transplantation, it will not be used on your face for the procedure.
Is Traditional Anesthesia Still Necessary After Needle-Free Anesthesia?
Conventional local anesthetic injection is still required after needle-free anesthesia to achieve a deep numbing effect. Still, one of the advantages of getting needle-free anesthesia before is that it hurts less when the actual needles are used. Bear in mind that it won’t make the process completely painless, but it does reduce it.
Can hair transplant be done without anesthesia?
A hair transplant surgery is typically done under local anesthesia and sedation (to ensure you’re relaxed). As a result, though you’ll be awake during the surgery, you will not experience pain. Having the surgery without anesthesia can, however, result in notable pain during the procedure, which is not only unpleasant, but might also make the surgery difficult as you move around in pain.
How Much Does Needle-Free Anesthesia For Hair Transplant Cost?
At Longevita, you can get needle-free anesthesia with your hair transplantation surgery at no extra cost. Once you book your plan, your surgeon and medical team will be informed, ensuring you receive needle-free anesthesia during your procedure
Interested In A Hair Transplant?
Longevita is a facilitator of quality and affordable hair transplants in both London and Istanbul. We have a 98% satisfaction rate and work with a team of highly qualified professionals to help you achieve the best possible results. To learn more about our offerings, don’t hesitate to get in touch!
Dr Cagla
Dr Cagla earned her medical degree at Trakya University’s Faculty of Medicine in Bulgaria and has almost 6 years of hair transplantation experience. She is a specialist in FUE, DHI and Sapphire hair transplants of the scalp, eyebrows and beard and has performed over 6,000 surgeries. Dr Cagla is multilingual, with fluency in English, Bulgarian and Turkish.