Follicular unit extraction hair transplant

Hair transplantation has come a long way from the days of Punch Hair Transplant by Dr. Orentreich in 1950s to Follicular Unit Hair Transplant (FUT) of 1990s and the very recent Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) technique. With the advent of FUE, the dream of 'no visible scarring' in the don...

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Published in:Journal of cutaneous and aesthetic surgery 2010-05, Vol.3 (2), p.76-81
Main Authors: Dua, Aman, Dua, Kapil
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Baldness
Hair
Hair follicles
Physiological aspects
Review
Transplantation
Transplants & implants
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Summary:Hair transplantation has come a long way from the days of Punch Hair Transplant by Dr. Orentreich in 1950s to Follicular Unit Hair Transplant (FUT) of 1990s and the very recent Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) technique. With the advent of FUE, the dream of 'no visible scarring' in the donor area is now looking like a possibility. In FUE, the grafts are extracted as individual follicular units in a two-step or three-step technique whereas the method of implantation remains the same as in the traditional FUT. The addition of latest automated FUE technique seeks to overcome some of the limitations in this relatively new technique and it is now possible to achieve more than a thousand grafts in one day in trained hands. This article reviews the methodology, limitations and advantages of FUE hair transplant.
ISSN:0974-2077
0974-5157
DOI:10.4103/0974-2077.69015