Hair Transplant Surgery

Hair transplant surgery at Angeline Yong Dermatology is performed by Dr. Angeline Yong, who brings rare specialist credentials to this procedure — she was the founding consultant and lead of the Hair Transplantation Service at Singapore's National Skin Centre, the country's premier public dermatology institution. This background distinguishes the clinic from the many aesthetic centres offering hair transplants as an add-on service; at AYD, hair surgery is…

Hair transplant surgery involves harvesting follicle units from a donor area (typically the occipital scalp, which is genetically resistant to DHT-driven miniaturisation) and transplanting them to areas of thinning or baldness. The two principal techniques — Follicular Unit Excision (FUE), which extracts individual grafts via small circular punches, and Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT), which removes a strip of donor tissue for dissection — are each…

A critical differentiating feature of Dr. Yong's approach is her emphasis on accurate pre-operative diagnosis. Because hair loss is often multifactorial — involving androgenetic alopecia, inflammatory conditions such as lichen planopilaris or frontal fibrosing alopecia, or systemic triggers — proceeding to transplant without a thorough medical evaluation risks poor graft survival or ongoing loss in non-transplanted areas. The clinic integrates…