FUE Hair Transplant Good or Bad

FUE hair transplant is a modification of standard follicular unit transplantation. The planting of follicular units into the recipient area is identical in both techniques.

The dissimilarity is found in the method of harvesting the hair from the donor area. Instead of excising a strip of hair, the follicular units in FUE hair transplant are removed from the scalp individually, one by one. Consequently, there is no wound to be sutured and there is no need for microscopes. The follicular units are removed by placing a 1 mm punch around a single follicular unit and cutting a small circle through the skin around that follicular unit. The follicular unit is then gently pulled away from the loose connective tissue surrounding it underneath the skin.

Once it is removed, no additional preparation is needed. It is prepared for planting. The small hole left behind is left to heal in by itself which it does over one to two weeks. This process is repeated hundreds of times until the desired number of follicular units are obtained. Proponents of the FUE hair transplant claim the advantage is less noticeable scarring and no tightness of the scalp.

Although good in theory, the FUE hair transplant does have some major drawbacks. One of the greatest is that not every patient scalp is amenable to follicular unit extraction. In these patients, the follicular unit tends to tear while it is being teased out of the skin. Damaged follicular units will not grow as well, if at all.

One more major problem of the FUE hair transplant is that is difficult to perform large sessions. The extractions are slow and tiresome. Patients desiring large sessions may have to return multiple days rather than a single day as during standard follicular unit transplantation.

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