Fue Hair Transplantation

FUE Hair Transplant

FUE – or Follicular Unit Extraction (or Excision)  is a hair transplant process that replaces lost or thinning hair by taking healthy follicles from a donor area of the head and transplanting them to a thinning area of the head, such as the hairline or crown. FUE is a minimally invasive hair restoration option. It is painles procedure that leaves no visible scar. It demands skill and precision and achieves the best and most natural result.

The FUE hair transplant is divided into two or three operating stages: first of all, hair grafts are harvested. During the process, individual follicles are removed under local anaesthesia. Each of these individual graft is checked under a microscope. Then, teh surgeon will make a series of tiny incisions with a needle or other small, sharp tool (we prefer sapphire)  where the extracted follicles will be inserted. Finally the grafts are implanted in the recipient area. Donor area is cleaned and bandaged for recovery.

Follicle, Follicular Unit, Graft

From a medical perspective; a follicle is a single hair, a follicular unit is a group that can have 1 to 4 follicles, a graft is a piece of living tissue that contains single or multiple follicular unit.   The follicular unit not only consists of a small group of hair follicles, but it also contains nerves, blood vessels and a tiny muscle. The whole unit is packaged in collagen that surrounds it and makes the follicular unit a distinct structure.

Follicular Unit Excision

Follicular unit extraction (FUE) is a hair transplantation technique that uses small punches (0.8mm in diameter) to extract the follicular units. The goal is to obtain the best quality of grafts in order to have the maximum regrowth rate; for this the graft must contain the heathy follicle (hair shaft) and the tissues with collagen because they contain the stem cells that will reproduce the hair cycles.  It is also necessary to avoid damaging the neighbouring follicular units.

Hair Cycle

The growth and loss of hair may seem like a simple process, but the hair growth cycle is actually composed of four distinct phases:

1. Growing phase (Anagen) is the longest phase lasting about 3-7 years. At any time, about 90 percent of the hairs on your head are in the anagen phase.
2. Transition phase (Catagen) lasts about 10 days or so. Hair follicles shrink and hair growth slows.
3. Resting phase (Telogen) typically lasts around 3 months. Hairs don’t grow during the telogen phase, but they don’t usually fall out either.
4. Shedding phase (Exogen) can last about 2 to 5 months, hair is shed from the scalp.

Remeber that these phases are for your hair, not for you. At anytime you have hairs on each phase; growing hair, resting hair and shedding hair.  When this cycle starts growing less hair line or stop growing new hair, then you face with hair loss problem. This is a naturel result of aging. Genetic heritage is another most common cause of hair loss. Hormonal changes, stressful lifestyle, medications, misuse of hair care products and rotten teeth are among other reasons of  hair loss problems.