Follicular Unit Extraction or FUE Harvesting – individual
follicles of hair are removed under local anesthesia; this micro removal
uses tiny punches of between 0.6mm and 1.25mm in diameter. Each
follicle is then reinserted back in to the scalp in the thinning area
using a micro blade. Because individual follicles are removed, only
small, punctate scars remain and any post-surgical pain is minimized. As
no suture removal is required, recovery from FUE is within 7 days.
It differs from the FUT method in that no strip in the scalp is
produced, namely scalpel and blades are not used to incise the donour
site and the follicular units are extracted one by one by special biopsy
needles.
In the first years of application, only a limited number of grafts,
about 300 to 400 in one session, were produced. Thanks to the
developments in the instrumental tools, the number of grafts produced
increased up to 2000. This condition enabled both the physicians making
transplantation and the patients tend to prefer the FUE method.
In 2010′s FUE method has become the major hair transplantation method worldwide.
Now let us explore the respective stages of the FUE method :
1-Local Anaesthesia and Sedation
2-Receival of Hair Grafts from the Donour Site
a) Dissection of the Follicular Grafts
b) Collection of the Dissected Grafts One by One
3-Microchannel Development in the Recipient Site
4- Implantation of the Grafts