Advancements in Hair Transplantation

Standard method of hair transplant, remove the strip of donor hair from the head, from which grafts of follicular units are dissected under a microscope. These grafts are then stored in saline solution and then planted a bald patch on the crown area of ​​the scalp.

Given the nature of time and tedious operation that, a hair transplant surgeon is often able to transplant only 500 to 600 follicular unit grafts per day. However, recent advances in hair transplantation, this technique is often replaced by follicular unit extraction (FUE). The cost per graft of FUE is usually double the cost of the standard procedure of the follicular unit hair transplantation mentioned above, but is relatively quick and minimally invasive.

Some advances in hair transplant

In a typical procedure was a small blow everything is done in the donor site to be drawn directly from 1, 2, 3 and 4 transplants, follicular unit hair. The follicular units extracted using this process is called a "dissection", where a hit is made on the follicular unit is separated from the surrounding soft tissues.

Once the underlying follicular unit is separated from the surrounding tissue, it is easy to remove with tweezers. Small holes left after the extraction of follicular units gradually heal the coming days and are undetectable to the naked eye when the patient's hair grows. The healing time is much less than the extraction procedure the donor strip.

Although the FUE procedure has been adopted by most hair transplant clinics, the standard strip excision procedure is still the most popular hair transplant because it is more economical than the FUE.

Moreover, given the recent advances in hair transplantation, such as the use of the technique of closure trichophytic, a linear scar created by the donor ribbon cutting procedure is now often performed almost imperceptible to the naked eye. This step in the procedure FUE hair transplant technique has been relatively less attractive.