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FUE vs FUT
by Wafaa E. WriterFUE and FUT
are both types of hair transplant surgeries that you may have heard about. You
may be wondering, though, as to exactly what these two methods involve and
which of the two would suit you best. The FUE and FUT are different in how the
grafts are removed during the harvesting stage of the process. Both methods do
involve transplanting of follicular units, which contain up to 4 hair follicles
in each case.
What the FUT method involves
The FUT (Follicular
Unit Transplantation) is the older method of hair transplantation that was
developed in the early 2000s. It involves removing hair follicular units, but
first a strip of skin containing several of these is extracted. The place of
extraction is usually at the back of the head where a fairly large area of skin
is cut out. The hair at the back of the head continues to grow and is not
affected by androgenic alopecia unlike hair in other parts of the head.
Once the
tissue is removed the hair specialist has to remove hair follicular units from
the actual tissue and then prepare these for grafting in to the scalp of the
patient. The doctor uses a microscope to carefully remove the follicular units
which are then stored temporarily in a chilled tissue solution. The donor part
is next sewed up and closed, and should heal in about two weeks.
The grafts
are positioned into small incisions made in the part of the scalp where the
hair is needed. The specialist often uses an implanter device to carefully
place grafts to match the surrounding hair.
Physicians
and scientists soon decided, though, that the FUT works well but it could be
better. There are some benefits over the newer method in that it is less expensive
and is quicker to perform, but the FUT results in a noticeable scar in the
donor section. In response to the shortcomings of the FUT, the FUE was
invented. This method has many similarities with the FUT but it has some
distinct differences that are actually very beneficial and represent major
improvements.
How the FUE improves on the FUT
The FUE (Follicular
Unit Extraction) method has a different means of extraction of the hair
follicles to the FUT. In fact, in the FUE, the actual follicular units are
extracted individually and directly from the actual donor site in one step. This is done after the area is shaved and a
punch of between 0.8 and 1 mm is used to excise follicular units.
The next step
is to make tiny cuts into the section where the follicles are to be grafted. By
making only small incisions during extraction and grafting, it minimizes the
risk of infection, bleeding and scarring. Clearly these are big benefits and it
is also likely that healing will be improved as well. Not having a large scar
at the back of the head is obviously a good thing and certainly it means men
who want to have very short hair do not need to worry that a big, unsightly
scar will be seen. For most people the FUE is the better choice today and it
gives good results.
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