Most popular hair transplant technique Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT) - 3

5 Advantages of Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT)

1. The main advantage of FUT is the natural results.

The FUT has the closer placement of hair grafts and creative flexibility in designing the hair line. It perhaps the most natural looking hair transplant results to the bald area.

2. This advantage that was the main reason for the development of the Follicular Unit Transplant technique is that it does not cause a linear scar.

Therefore it is useful in patients who for one reason or another may in the future want to have their donor area very short. Fox example : the hair < 1cm in length.

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3. The Follicular Unit Transplant has the minimally invasive so shorter healing time and no bandage required after surgery.

The FUE procedure does not entail excision of a donor strip from the donor area. So there is no dissection of follicular units and they are directly extracted one-by-one. It is done using custom-made, precise micro-surgical tools. These tools are less than a millimeter in diameter.

4. The Follicular Unit Transplant is a simple and painless procedure.

The donor area heals up within 2-4 days. The procedure is also free from any risk of damage to nerves. A notable advantage of FUE is possibility of quality control during the transplantation procedure. The surgeon needs only one assistant during the follicle hair transplant.

5. Possible to use body or beard hair for transplantation if required.

2 Risks Of Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT)

1. The Follicular Unit Transplant is expensive. Almost twice as expensive to other hair loss surgery.

The session of FUT is time-consuming, requiring more surgery team, and are more costly to the patient.

2. The other one greatest risk of the FUT is that not every patient scalp is amenable to follicular unit extraction.

In these patients, the follicular unit tends to tear while it is being teased out of the skin. Damaged follicular units will not grow as well, if at all.

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