Hair transplantation is a surgical technique that removes hair follicles from one part of the body, called the ‘donor site’, to a bald or balding part of the body known as the ‘recipient site’. The technique is primarily used to treat male pattern baldness.
FUE TRANSPLANTATION
• Follicular unit extraction (FUE) is a type of hair transplant done by taking individual hair follicles from your skin and moving them to another part of your body where hair is thinner or absent.
• FUE has become more popular than the follicular unit transplantation (FUT) procedure, which led to the “hair plugs” look.
• Surgeons use micro punches to extract single follicles and move them, leaving behind almost no signs of extraction.
• FUE is an outpatient procedure, so you can typically go home after each procedure.
• The cost can vary widely based on how much hair is being transplanted and how experienced your surgeon is.
• Hair transplanted into a new area of your body typically begins growing back in about 3 to 4 months.
HOW DOES FUE WORK
• As you get older, the three-phase cycle of hair growth and regrowth shortens until follicles no longer regrow hairs. This process is different for everyone. Some people start balding in their 20s, while others bald much later in life.
• FUE hair transplants restore hair by replacing these old follicles with new follicles that are still able to grow hair.
STEPS OF THE PROCEURE
FUE involves the following steps
EXTRACTION OR PUNCH EXTRACTION
Using a small microneedle, The doctor makes a circular incision, less than 1 mm in diameter, around a follicular unit on your head, to isolate a graft.
Then, using a tweezer-like instrument, the doctor extracts the follicular unit from your donor area. Multiple follicular units are extracted like this way.
CLASSIFICATION OF GRAFTS
SLIVERING OF GRAFTS
GRAFT IMPLANTATION