As consumer’s appetite for surgical hair transplants procedures grow in
the exploding cosmetic industry, the need for hair transplants information
and education is important.
For
years, cosmetic surgery was done by obtaining donor hair using linear
incision. Today there is a buzz about follicular unit use in
hair
transplants. Follicular unit is a group of 1 to 3 hairs that grow
naturally together, including glands, muscle, nerves and blood vessels.
Today,
the use of Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) is greatly extended. It is a
new method of obtaining donor hair for transplantation where individual
hair units are plucked from one area, the donor area, using only 1 mm
circular incision size, and then inserted directly in the balding area.
Follicular Unit Transplantation FUT still uses a final hair
transplantation act of implanting single hair into the balding area, after
it was plucked and dissected from a strip. Here the name is referring to
the way the follicular grafts are obtained strip harvesting and dissection
vs. direct extraction and implantation. Strip harvesting a strip of hair
approximately 10 to 20 cm long is removed from the donor area (back of the
head below the ears) and is then divided and cut into follicular units
under a microscope.
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FUE does not leave a linear scar but instead small incisions. Therefore,
it is used for patients who want to wear their hair very short and those
who have a very tight scalp. There is a shorter healing time since the
incisions are so small. It is best used when a limited number of
grafts are needed damage may occur due the large but small incisions to
extract the hair follicles. Another problem may occur when epidermis and
upper dermis may separate from the rest of the follicle during the pluck
incision, called “capping.” Another incision is needed for a new
follicle.
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FUE is
less efficient in harvesting hair, since it is taken from several areas of
the donor areas. In FUT, the strip is taken from the optimal section of
the donor region so all the hair in this area can be removed and
transplanted at once.
In FUE,
while hair is extracted, the skin between the follicular units is not
removed. Therefore, the hair transplants surgeon must leave
enough hair in the area to cover the remaining donor scalp. Consequently,
there is considerably less total donor hair available. To compensate for
the inability to harvest all the hair from the permanent zone, the surgeon
may eventually be tempted to harvest hair from the upper and lower margins
of the original donor area and risk the hair being of poor quality or
being non-permanent. In FUE small hundreds or thousands of
scars are left open to heal. This scarring distorts adjacent follicular
units and makes subsequent sessions more difficult, this limits future
donor supply.
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