Reversing Hair Loss with FUE Restoration : FUE Innovations
The inclusion of the follicular unit extraction (FUE) technique was a remarkable innovation in the industry. It offers many more advantages and less disadvantages of past techniques. Benefits include better aesthetics and reduction of visible scars. FUE is also a less aggressive surgery with a faster healing time period.
Initial hair restoration surgeries for hair loss stem from the punch graft, first used in Japan and then refined in the U.S. It remained the standard transplant technique for more than two decades.
FUE Advantages over Fuss for Hair Loss
- Follicular Unit Strip Surgery (FUSS): Also known as follicular unit transplant (FUT), FUSS is the most practiced method at the moment. It takes less time, is generally cheaper and more surgeons know how to do it. Surgeons remove an elliptical strip from the head where adequate hair is available. The piece of scalp with follicular units intact is then harvested and split into smaller grafts. The grafts are transplanted to areas of hair loss. Unfortunately FUSS leaves a noticeable.
- Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE): This technique is gaining in popularity. Surgeons excise follicular units one at a time rather than removing a strip of scalp. Harvesting is done using with about 1 millimeter punches. FUE is a refined hair transplant so it takes longer and is usually more expensive. Surgeons who only perform FUE tend to be more experienced with a higher level of technical and artistic skill.
- scar at the donor source.