There are several people working in the world of football who have benefitted from a hair transplant.
The Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has made no secret of the fact that he has had a procedure, and his hair looks great.
The other Premiership manager who has received help with his hair is the Chelsea boss Antonio Conte.
Why Has Antonio Conte Had A Hair Transplant?
If you go online you will see a lot of fans have been searching for terms such Conte Balding or Antonio Conte Hair Loss – no doubt because they are so impressed with the transformation of his hair.
Like a lot of men, Conte started losing his hair in his late 20s and early 30s when he was a successful player in the Italian league and playing for the Italian national team.
He was pictured several times during this time showing all the signs of advanced male pattern baldness.
Since becoming such a successful manager, Conte has had at least two hair transplants to cover up the bald areas at the front of his hairline.
It is likely he would have opted for an FUE (follicular unit extraction) procedure. This is where the grafts are removed individually from the back and sides of the scalp and then replanted in the balding areas.
Around 80% of patients coming to Crown Clinic to our consultant surgeon Asim Shahmalak now opt for FUE.
This is a big change on five years ago when the majority of our patients chose the more traditional method of hair transplantation known as FUT (follicular unit transplantation) or strip surgery.
Why Choose an FUE Transplant Over An FUT?
The advantage of FUE over FUT is that there is less scarring. Most FUE patients are simply left with some red pin pricks where the donor hair is harvested and replanted which go away after a few weeks.
Famous Crown Clinic FUE patients include the model Calum Best, Gogglebox star Chris Butland-Steed, Homes Under The Hammer presenter Martin Roberts and the football pundit Didi Hamann.
FUE is slightly more expensive than FUE because it requires more time to carry out. This is because the donor grafts are removed individually rather in one single strip of skin which is surgically removed, which is what happens under FUT.
Crown Clinic’s most famous FUT patient is the TV doctor Christian Jessen who has had two FUT transplants with Dr Shahmalak. Scarring is greater with FUT and all patients are left with a lined scar on the scalp where the strip for the donor hair is removed. This soon heals and if you wear your hair relatively long, like Christian Jessen, it is very difficult to see the scar because the hair grows over it. However, the scar is visible if you like to wear your hair short or shaved, like Calum Best, so we recommend FUE for all patients who like their hair short. Around 20% of Crown Clinic patients still prefer FUT. There is evidence to show that slightly few grafts are lost in the donor hair harvesting process by removing the grafts in one go – so that is an advantage of FUT.
Chelsea manager Conte has not spoken about his hair transplants, so we don’t know for sure which method he chose.
Whichever one it was, he is to be congratulated on his choice and the work of his hair transplant surgeon because he has an excellent result.