What Is FUE?

Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) is a revolutionary advancement in the way that individual hair follicles are harvested for transplant.

     The traditional method involved removing a strip of skin, complete with follicles, from the donor area at the back of the head. When this area was sewn back together it would leave a fine but continuous scar across the back of the patient's scalp. FUE completely eliminates the scalpel and associated scar from hair transplant procedures.

     Using advanced FUE methods, the surgeon is able to isolate and extract a single follicle from the donor area at either the back or side of the head and then transplant that follicle into an artistically placed pinhole in the patient's balding or thinning area.

     A specially designed tool, only 1mm wide is used to perforate and loosen the skin around the individual
hair follicle before extracting the follicle with a pair of precision jeweler's forceps.

     Some of the benefits of FUE as opposed to traditional methods include:

●Less bleeding
●Less visible scars
●Less recovery time
●No scalpels, no sutures

FUE may be used exclusively for an entire procedure, or in conjunction with the standard strip method to increase the overall number of grafts possible per surgery.