Basic guidance for modern hair restoration procedures

Hair restoration and hair transplant are different terms to use for different purposes. While hair transplant is the surgery procedure, hair restoration is anything that restores hair from both hair loss and baldness. It can be medicines, it can be laser combs or it cans hair restoration surgery that is same as an FUE or FUT hair transplant surgery.

There are only one way for hair restoration surgery that is to extract baldness resistant hair from the patient’s “donor site” of the scalp and to replace it in the baldness affected “recipient site” site. And to do this there are two methods: Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT) and Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE).

FUT – modern hair restoration surgery is all done by means of follicular extraction in different methods. Follicular Unit Transplant takes the traditional concept of strip harvesting to an ideal stage where it could really look natural and be permanent hair restoration. Strip harvesting technique is to strip off a thin 2cm thick skin off the donor site that is patently the back of the scalp of the patient. With local anaesthetics the treatable area is less prone to invasiveness. The follicular units of hair are extracted from the skin strip and the stripped area of the scalp is sutured back finely. Then the hair follicles are planted individually. With FUT, just the linear scar and some post-surgical trauma like pain, swelling might be the only cons of FUT, but the pain can go off after a day or two, so would the swelling and there are various tricks to hide the linear scar while on its way to fade out within 1-2 months. 

FUE, it is vulnerable to a number of cases. FUE is the most useful surgery when going for hair transplantation to smaller areas, FUE is very useful when it comes to Eyebrow hair transplant, or special cases of hair loss like any accidents or patchy loss of hair in some specific areas of the scalp. As well as when with limited donor hair the FUE can harvest hair follicles from other parts of the body as well, that will be also genetically immune to baldness. The body hair follicular unit extraction (BHFUE) proves to be a good idea, but it can result in uneven texture of hair in the final result because apparently, the hair in the chest differs in texture than the hair in the scalp.

 All said and done, assessing the patient, his/her hair condition and expectations can only decide the kind of hair and hair transplant surgery that is right. Every individual has an individual case and requirements. With regards to this, the most important thing to do for the patient would be choose the proper hair clinic and qualified and experienced surgeon who would best understand an ideal hair transplant surgery.