The Hair Loss Problem & Advantages of Having FUE Hair Transplant

Hair Loss Problem and Solutions – Hair loss problem has become pervasive, and patients as young as 20 are experiencing rapid hair thinning. Hair loss is caused by genetics, medication, and lack of sleep, poor diet, malnutrition, scalp disease, trauma, and stressful activities.

Hair thinning may be temporary or permanent, and a skin or hair specialist is necessary for accurate diagnosis and treatment.

Rapid hair loss may lead to permanent baldness and male pattern hair loss, which has the following disadvantages:-

• Hair thinning on the sides and loss of hair on the forehead leads to low self-esteem in the patient.
• Bald patches on the crown and sides of the head are not only unattractive but they also cause embarrassment to the patient.
• Rapid hair loss can be also be accompanied by other symptoms such as itching, redness, sores, and irritation of the scalp.
• Men and women with thin hair lack the aesthetic appeal that is necessary for modern popularity and media presence.

Thankfully, the technology, techniques, and tools used in hair replacement surgery also developed by leaps and bounds in recent years.

The hair restoration methods rely on re-distribution of available hair on the scalp, and hair transplant is one of the most popular and efficient surgical techniques.

Since the 1990’s follicular unit hair transplant surgeries such as FUT and FUE have become very popular due to their efficiency in treating male pattern baldness.

Modern dermatology experts use the descriptive term Follicular Unit Hair Transplant (FUHT) to encompass all the available hair restoration surgeries.

FUE Transplant

Follicular units are very small in size and they include terminal hairs, villus hairs, sebaceous glands, muscle tissue, and collagen.

The surgeon performs a densitometry study using computer technology and hand-held devices. The study estimates total amount of movable donor hair, size of individual follicular units, and size of balding area.

The surgeon makes round incisions and directly extracts the follicular units from the donor area. A large number of such units are extracted one by one unlike the strip harvesting of FUT procedure.

The units are then transplanted to the recipient area using manual punching devices to accelerate the surgical procedure and make it more efficient and painless.

The success rate of FUE depends on many factors, but the advanced techniques and tools have greatly reduced the problem of transection and follicular unit damage during the transplant.

Advantages of FUE

The best hair transplant clinic in Mumbai offers the services of experienced surgeons for performing the FUE procedure on eligible candidates.

The FUE hair transplant procedure makes efficient use of hair proximity on the follicular units and offers the following set of advantages:-

• Unlike FUT or strip harvesting, FUE is an excellent procedure for minimizing and eliminating scarring of the donor area.
• The recipient wound size is also kept minimum as a result of extensive planning during the pre-operative stage of the surgery.
• A single FUE session is more than sufficient to safely transplant a large number of grafted units to the recipient/balding area.
• The extracted follicular units are also placed very close together by the surgeon for maximum effectiveness during subsequent hair growth.
• The skin surface on the recipient/balding area of the scalp is not modified by the FUE procedure.
• Post-operative healing is accelerated, and the new hair growth blends well with the natural hairs on non-donor areas.