FUT seems to yield better results due to something to do with a fatty layer included with the hair follicle which cannot be extracted with FUE. All the pictures I have seen FUT gives more density and luscious hair (compared with the SAME amount of follicles for FUE).
Can you elaborate more with this "fatty layer", and why couldn't it be extracted by FUE?
The fact with "i've seen pictures with FUT giving more density at the same amount of follicles" can be VERY misleading. The fact with "luscious hair" is false, simply the hair would look the same regardless of the method it is transplanted.
Photos of hair in general can be misleading.
And after that, be aware that the number of grafts can be misleading too.
A graft can have an average of 1.5 follicles or it can have an average of 2.5 follicles, so the final number of hairs would be different. The quality of hair shaft matters as well.
These arguments can't convince me that STRIP is better than FUE.
Maybe some years ago when FUE was only in its begining, it could have been true that STRIP produced better results, but now there are very experienced surgeons on FUE, the growth rate is over 95% at them, and i'm sure even STRIP can't yield 100%. So for a difference of 2-3 percents to have a nasty scar in the back of your head, i strongly think it isn't worth.
But it is your decision. If you go down the STRIP route, for your own good, do it with a top-class surgeon, not at some ordinary unknown surgeon, this is very important.
And be aware that not only shaving the head would be a problem, if you get the scar, you need to keep the hair in the back much more longer than zero length in shaving, probably some 2 centimeters or more.
I don't know your current hair loss pattern, but suppose after some years , even with the transplant, you will thin drastically on top/crown(only a supposition).
Then your top will be very thin, but you would need to keep the back 2 cm long, that means the "george costanza" look for the rest of your life. At least, with the top thin, if you buzz the sides/back very short, it would be more acceptable, but if you coudln;t buzz the back...then it would be nasty i think.
Body hair into the scar? Hm dr Umar is a good doctor, but i don't think body hair into the scar would match with the thick hair around it...
And yes, i enforce what Fred said, don't look at the money.
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If that's what you want to do to the back of your head, then go STRIP:
I don't get how this kind of barbaric graft harvesting technique still exists in 2014...