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Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) and Transplantation
Follicular
Unit Extraction Offers Minimally Invasive
Surgery Technique to Hair Transplantation.
Hair
transplantation is simply the transferring of
hair from a "permanent" area of the scalp to
another area in which hair has fallen out due to
heredity or some other cause. For most men and
women who lose the hair on the top of their
head, the hair on the back and sides of their
head is relatively thick and is likely to remain
so for the rest of their lives. This "permanent"
hair is harvested by means of Follicular Unit
Extraction (FUE), and then meticulously
dissected under the microscope to produce
hundreds of tiny follicular unit grafts of one
to three or four hairs each.
 In
hair transplantation, these newly created tiny
grafts of "permanent" hair are distributed
artistically over the balding scalp according to
a carefully planned pattern. They quickly take
root and, after a short resting period of four
to six months, grow and keep on growing for the
rest of your life.
Both the
removal of hair follicles and subsequent
transplantation create small surgical "wounds."
Prior to Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), donor
hair was removed by the more traditional method
of "strip harvesting," which created a wound
that had the potential to scar when healed.
Over the past
decade, significant progress in the techniques
of hair transplantation have tended to further
reduce surgical invasiveness. Hair
transplantation has moved steadily from the
grafting of "plugs" containing 20 or more hairs
to the use of donor-hair follicular units
containing one to three hairs.
The technique
of follicular unit extraction (FUE) has shown
the potential to harvest donor hair with minimal
invasiveness and much reduced potential for
scarring at the site of donor hair removal.
Follicular
unit extraction is the method of removing single
hair follicles from a donor site, using
extremely small excisions, and is considered to
fall within the definition of minimally invasive
surgery. Hair transplant surgery as a
whole is considered as outpatient procedure.
Currently,
the most common method for removing donor hair
on the scalp is to surgically remove a small
strip of follicle-bearing skin and underlying
tissue; the follicles to be transplanted are
then dissected out of the follicle-bearing
strip. Although donor wound scarring is an
infrequent complication of such a procedure, the
potential for scarring concerns some patients.
FUE offers an alternative for selected patients
who have a medical history of scarring or who
are concerned about the possibility of scarring.
Follicular
unit transplantation continues the ever-growing
emphasis on achieving a “natural” look for hair
transplant patients, especially in the
all-important area of the front hairline. It is
a technique that, like micrografting, uses one
to four follicular units to achieve a natural
distribution of hair coverage over the scalp and
avoid the corn-row or “pluggy” appearance that
has historically been associated with hair
transplantation.
An additional
advantage of follicular unit transplantation is
that individual follicular units are the natural
hair-bearing structure in the scalp, and
transplanting them as units increases the
likelihood of natural growth after
transplantation.
The
availability of Follicular Unit extraction and
transplantation expands the number of options a
patient may consider for surgical hair
restoration. Whether it is the best option for
an individual patient depends upon the
individual patient characteristics, including
cause of hair loss, type of hair loss,
likelihood of hair loss progression over future
years, and the patient’s wishes for the
“look” that he or she wishes to achieve from
hair restoration.
After this
new hair grows out, it can be washed, cut, or
styled in whatever way you like. There is
nothing fragile about transplanted hair. It can
even be permed or colored. A person with a
transplanted head of hair can sleep, swim, ski,
go to the barber shop – in other words – do
everything they ever did before, knowing that
once again they have their own hair back again.
And best of all, no one will know!
Live life the way you want, without
embarrassment, without being self-conscious, and with a
full, beautiful, luxurious hair again. Take the first
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