SMP for High Contrast Scalp and Hair

Dr. Rassman,

For patients who have high contrast scalp and hair (ie. dark hair and fair skin). Wouldn’t a combination of SMP and surgery help minimize some of that contrast and maybe achieve a more fuller look?

Yes! It would be advantageous to complement the scalp micro-pigmentation (SMP) with a hair transplant for a full and realistic (3-dimensional) look. No one treatment is perfect. Hair transplantation can never give you the complete fullness you once had, since it is just rearranging what you currently have. But hair transplants can give you a good hairline, adequate coverage, and even almost normal densities if the area covered is small.

SMP can give you the look of fullness but it will not be real hair, since it is like using concealers (think DermMatch or Toppik) but without the daily applications because it is permanent.