An Introduction To FUE Hair Transplants
Minimally invasive Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) hair transplant is actually becoming the more popular option for hair transplantation, thanks to results that look very natural with very little downtime, no scars and no discomfort. Here is an article about what the latest developments in FUE hair transplant procedures are all about and how are they done, along with the benefits and the issues or risks associated with this method, along with the outlook for the future of hair restoration.
FUT (Follicular Unit Transplantation) Hair Transplants are performed under local anesthesia. Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) is the ‘strip’ approach: the surgeon removes a thin strip of dense-growing tissue hair from the back or sides of the head and divides it into individual follicular units and transplants these one by one into the bald or thinning areas.
What Is A FUE Hair Transplant?
It’s called Follicular Unit Extraction, or FUE, and rather than sides of your skull a your own scalp ( or FUT), the in all these hairs one by one, literally picking them up and transferring them to parts of your head where it is thinning and/or balding. One of the big selling points of FUE is that it doesn’t create big sutures and so a person will have minimal to no scarring – this is actually one of the big reasons that the procedure is becoming so popular, with recovery times noticeably shorter than the old-school incisions-based approaches to putting a new head of hair on a man.
How FUE Hair Transplants Work
The FUE procedure is carried out in several steps:
Shaving the donor area: The patient’s donor area was shaved before surgery to give the surgeon more access to the hair follicles. These are typically untouched by the hair-loss hormones so the hair transplanted in that area will continue to grow naturally following its relocation.
Follicle Extraction:
With a single-hair follicle punch instrument, the physician excises individual hair follicles from the donor area. Often, the physician removes each follicle singularly. In this fashion, the extraction of hair follicles through the scalp is accomplished with the least amount of tissue trauma.
Recipient Area Preparation:
After the donor follicles are harvested through either a strip excision or FUE (as mentioned in step 2 or 5 above), the recipient area must be prepared by making a scattergrid of incisions into the bald or thinning areas where the follicles will be implanted.
The next process is follicle transplantation:
follicles after being removed should be transferred to the recipient area, keep the correct hair angles, hair transfer depth and direction as well as the hair growth texture of the patient, control density of hair.
Patients offer precise instructions for a process of self-care:
Many patients don’t know what to do when they get home and they say it [the prep] made them want to do something. They want to know what they can do if they have itching or bleeding and it makes them more comfortable,’ said Dr Shapiro. Recovery: The patient’s instructions for self-care foster the growth of his hair and improve blood flow to the implanted grafts, thereby ensuring the success of the doctor’s surgery. Initially, the transplanted hairs are fine but within three months they are long and pretty.
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The Benefits of FUE Hair Transplantation
Minimally Invasive:
Because it has to take its material from that long thin strip of scalp (and that strip has to be removed), it cannot hope to compete with FUE, where the risks are minimal, the pain less and the recovery even quicker.
No Linear Scarring:
And because it doesn’t leave an obvious (linear) scar on the back of the head — the one bit of your anatomy on which widespread hair loss really looks bad — FUE is particularly attractive to the sorts of people who don’t have the cajones to make it all the way through puberty with their hair long enough to cover the scar. It heals fast and clean: the exit holes are so small (1mm in diameter) you can hardly see them.
Natural-Looking Results:
Since the surgeon transplants each hair follicle, FUE will also be more natural. The surgeon can make the patient’s hairline more natural and plant each hair to resemble what the head looked like in his youth.
Quick Recovery:
The number of patients can safely return to their normal activities is almost at 100 per cent, in just a few days. On average it takes about 7-10 days for the patient to fully recover. The new hair will start to grow after about three months.
Permanent Solution:
The transplanted follicles act similarly; they resist the hormones that could cause the hair loss, which means that the results of an FUE transplant are permanent. Your hair transplant – two reasons why you can exhale. The hair that grows in when you have your transplant will grow for the rest of your life.