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A regular hair transplantation process entails the removal of donor strip of hair from the back of the head from where the follicular unit grafts are dissected under a microscope. These grafts are then preserved in saline and are then transplanted on a bald patch on the crown region of the scalp.

Given the time consuming and tedious nature of this procedure, a hair transplant surgeon is usually able to transplant only about 500 to 600 follicular unit grafts per day. Even so, thanks to the recent hair transplant advances, this strategy is often replaced by the follicular unit extraction (FUE). The price per graft of FUE is normally twice the expense of the standard follicular unit hair transplant process discussed above but it is comparatively more quickly and minimally invasive.

Some hair transplant advances

In a common FUE process a small round punch is created in the donor location to directly extract 1, two, 3 and four hair follicular unit grafts. The follicular units extracted making use of this process is typically referred to as "blunt dissection" where a punch is created to envelope the complete follicular unit separating it from the surrounding soft tissues.

When the underlying follicular unit is separated from the surrounding tissues, it is very easily extracted employing a tiny forceps. The small holes left behind immediately after the follicular unit extraction progressively heal over the next few days and are not detectable to the naked eye after the patient's hair grows out. The healing time is a lot much less than the donor strip extraction process.

Although the FUE procedure has been adopted by most hair transplant clinics, the standard strip excision technique is nevertheless the most well-known hair transplant process because it is much more cost-effective than the FUE.

In addition, due to some latest hair transplant advances such as the use of trichophytic closure technique, the linear donor scar developed by the strip excision process is now often rendered almost undetectable to the naked eye. This advancement in the hair transplantation strategy has created FUE process comparatively less appealing.

Hair transplantation study

Besides the hair transplant advances in the transplantation procedures, a lot of research is also underway to clone the hair. This wonderful quality shoulder reconstruction las vegas