What's the difference?

[Oink]

Guys,


For years I have known about taking hair from a donor area at the back - that will never recede) and transplanting it to the bald areas. Thing is, back then it was called micrografting. Now you have FUE and, even more recently, URFUT. But they all talk about removing hair and having a specialist reseed it in a certain manner, and at a certain angle so as to give the best, most natural results.

A version I remember actually cut the skin from your scalp, stitched thw wound, and then dug the hair out of the strip of flesh. I think the newer methods don't do that anymore but they all talk about placing them individually and stylistically in the bereft areas so in terms of replanting then donor hair, is there any difference between these methoids ebcause they all sound the same to me.


Thx.

 

[Rutt]

Not sure what URFUT is, sounds like a newer version of strip surgery?

FUE surgery uses a small punch (iirc ~2mm diameter) to remove hair one hole at a time. it leaves a large number of very small circular scars which are largely regarded as invisible with hair buzzed to a 1 guard or higher.

It is more expensive but allows the option of shaving the donor area down, and doesn't have the linear scar associated with FUT surgery. It is however more expensive and makes somewhat less efficient use of donor hair.

It's recommended for younger patients who want the ability to shave down later (should hairloss continue unabated) and/or only have a minor/moderate amount of hairloss (NW2- maybe NW4).

There's probably under a dozen really good doctors for FUE spread across the U.S. (plus one in Canada)

 

[Oink]

Hi,

Why does FUT make less use of the donor hair than the strip method?

As for URFUT, here are some links. Be great to hear what you think about it:

http://ezinearticles.com/?URFUT-Vs-FUE- ... id=2978937

http://www.hairlaserremoval.co.uk/hair- ... afting.htm.