Extraction And Transplant

Hair loss can affect a person looks very badly. For those people who have experienced permanent hair loss from male pattern baldness or from stress, hair replacement surgery may be the best possible solution. The best hair replacement surgery should be patient friendly and minimally invasive.

Nowadays due to the advance in technology and medical science, hair transplantations without a scalpel and stitches are possible. In follicular unit extraction and transplantation method, a patient doesn’t find any linear scars in the back of the scalp after the surgery is done. Though follicular unit extraction and transplant is costly, it is the best hair restoration surgery and a best way to make your hair look natural and beautiful.

In this follicular unit extraction method, a small round punch is used to extract follicular units from the patient’s back of the scalp where healthy bald resistant hair grows. These 1,2,3,4 follicular units are then examined under the microscope to ensure that there is no damage in the donor strip. After it is thoroughly examine, the follicular units are transplanted on the patients bald areas. This procedure is time consuming and tedious and also cost twice as much as the cost of standard follicular unit transplant. Due to its time consuming nature, a physician is limited to transplanting only 400 to 500 follicular units in a day.

How Is a FUE transplant performed:

During the follicular unit extraction, a small one millimeter or less sized punch is used to excise the individual follicular unit grafts one at a time. To enable the physicians to see the patient’s scalp, the donor area where these grafts are taken out is cut short. Using multiple step processes, the follicular unit is extracted. At first, a sharp and small punch is used to score the skin around the follicular unit. Then, a dull punch is used to go deeper into the patient’s soft tissue that surrounds the follicular unit. While separating follicular units from the surrounding soft tissues, the small dull punch tends to envelope the follicular unit. This process is typically known as blunt dissection. After the follicular unit is separated from the surrounding soft tissue using dull punch, it can be extracted by gripping the hair using a forceps. The tiny wounds left after the extractions are not noticeable to the naked eye. It gradually heals resulting the tiny scars to become smaller and less visible.