Scalp clinic in Seoul — scalp micropigmentation and LLLT scalp care

What SMP is

Scalp micropigmentation puts pigment into the skin at the depth of a very short hair, reducing the contrast between a pale scalp and darker hair so that the scalp stops showing through. It is a medical procedure with a medical purpose: it solves what a transplant cannot — visible skin between existing hairs, a widening parting, a whorl that shows, a strip scar, or a head that is kept shaved by choice.

LLLT and scalp care

Low-level laser therapy runs through the entire post-operative programme, from the day after surgery to the one-year review, and is used to settle inflammation and swelling early on and to support the growth phase later. O₂ scaling is added at the one-month visit, when transplanted hair is shedding and the scalp needs cleaning rather than stimulating.

Surgery or treatment?

That is decided at diagnosis, and the two are not alternatives. Where the donor area is sound and the loss is patterned, a transplant does what treatment cannot. Where loss is diffuse or still progressing, treatment first is the honest answer — and micropigmentation sits alongside both.

Pigment placed just under the epidermis to close the colour gap between scalp and hair.

Scalp micropigmentation puts pigment into the skin at the depth of a very short hair, reducing the contrast between a pale scalp and darker hair so that the scalp stops showing through. It is a medical procedure with a medical purpose: it solves what a transplant cannot — visible skin between existing hairs, a widening parting, a whorl that shows, a strip scar, or a head that is kept shaved by choice.

• Three to four sessions, two to four weeks apartColour is built up gradually rather than laid down in one pass, which is what keeps it looking like hair rather than a wash of pigment.
• Dots the width of a hair shaftThe work is done in points sized to a hair, so it reads as stubble at conversational distance. This is slow, and sessions run long as a result.
• Placed above the follicle, not into itThe pigment sits just below the epidermis; follicles lie deeper in the dermis and are not touched. Existing hair is unaffected.
• A transplant afterwards is still possibleBecause the pigment depth and the graft depth are different, micropigmentation does not close off a transplant later.
• No scheduled retouchingThe clinic does not build the treatment around periodic retouch appointments.
• Performed by the directorThe same person performs every session.

Questions

Low-level laser therapy, O₂ scaling and regenerative scalp laser, through the recovery year.

Low-level laser therapy runs through the entire post-operative programme, from the day after surgery to the one-year review, and is used to settle inflammation and swelling early on and to support the growth phase later. O₂ scaling is added at the one-month visit, when transplanted hair is shedding and the scalp needs cleaning rather than stimulating.

• From day one to year oneLLLT is given at the day-one, one-week, one-month, four-month and eight-month visits.
• Early: inflammation and swellingIn the first week the purpose is settling the operated scalp.
• Later: the growth phaseFrom the fourth month it accompanies MTS as regrowth begins.
• O₂ scaling at one monthAdded at the visit where shedding is at its peak.

Questions

Scalp clinic — what patients ask