Technique of Choosing the Hair Transplant Procedure

In hair transplantation, hair follicles are transplanted from the donor’s safe zone to the recipient’s scalp, where they are needed to cover the bald area and relocate the hair follicles to achieve an aesthetic result in the form of a natural hairline and a dense graft pattern for the bald area. The process of hair transplantation is gaining relevance and importance day by day as it achieves sustainable results for hair regrowth and a natural hairline design. It is an important aspect of concern about the technique of hair transplantation so that the higher number of hair follicles could be transferred in a single session. The second thing that comes in this aspect is about the cost of hair transplant for the particular technique that is decided in terms of harvesting maximum grafts as well as getting more natural results.

To avoid the disadvantages while planning the hair transplant, it is important to have a thorough knowledge about both procedures that decide the suitability for a particular procedure based on your condition of baldness and physical or anatomical layers.

There are two main types of hair transplant techniques; FUT (Follicular Unit Transplant) & FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction).

FUT (Follicular Unit Transplant): FUT technique is a powerful and real choice when there is a need to extract the higher number of follicular units to cover the higher NW class, and in FUT it is possible to achieve the highest number of graft extraction and implantation in a single session. FUT hair transplant technique is most widely used in the patients with the highest degree of baldness, and it requires special skills of the surgeon to achieve an aesthetic result. In FUT hair transplantation, how efficiently the surgeon extracts the strip is a matter of aesthetic skills, and it is a matter of expertise and perfection of work. It is necessary to cut the strip area with the blade with less depth so that the hair roots are viable and after cutting we need to hold with the help of the hook so that the superficial line catches the hair roots in the most viable way.

What should be considered in FUT procedure from the surgeon’s side are mentioned below:

Are the follicular units microscopically dissected under the magnification of 20x so that the transaction rate of grafts will be minimized?

Does your hair transplant surgeon use the single bladed knife to harvest the strips of follicular units from the safe donor portion?

Are the technicians well-versed and having many years of experience?

How many microscopes are being used during the dissection of grafts

Aforesaid are some important questions before opting for the FUT surgery from the particular clinic and all the answers that you are seeking should be in positive from your surgeon’s perspective.

FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction): The follicular unit extraction procedure of the hair transplant is in itself a systematic process of single follicular unit extraction, in which surgeons extract the follicular units one by one directly from the targeted spot by using the motorized or manual punch of DIA 0.75 to 1 mm. Here the chances of damage rate will be higher because the procedure requires the special set of skills of perfection and expertise by which a surgeon decides in punching depth and it’s all about the speculations and predictions that the surgeon applies during the extraction of follicular units. The punching and drilling of harvesting the hair roots should be at the proper angle and direction so that the surgeon efficiently extracts the follicular units and hence the transaction/damage rate of follicular units are higher there and the outcomes are also of lesser value. FUE is suitable for those candidates who are suffering from the lesser grade of baldness with minimum NW class.

The FUE technique takes much time for harvesting the grafts and the surgeon harvests the grafts repeatedly until enough graft is collected for the planned hair restoration. The FUE technique takes a whole day to complete the procedure, but there may be multiple sessions as the graft requirements to cover the bald portion and the recovery time varies as per the sessions are multiplied and the needed healing time over the course is of 5-7 days. The wound after the surgical procedure of FUE will appear as tiny white scars in approximate 1-mm in size. These scars can be easily buried in the rear and sides of the scalp containing the hair.

Now it has been easily determined that the particular cost for a particular procedure of hair transplant as per the usable technique and ranges of follicular units that are harvested in a particular procedure varies accordingly.