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Prohairclinic FUE and SMP
Preserving donor area? What strategy works and why?
Patients are for obvious reasons focussing on the results of a hair transplant. However they often forget the other side : the donor area.
Although the end results of a hair transplant should look naturall, the donor area should not be forgotten.
In our clinic we focus both on the 'problem' area as well as on the donor area.
We have learned through our 15 year experience performing FUE on a daily basis that preserving the donor is a balance excercise.
Basically there are 4 key factors that play an important role in preserving donor area
1. Instruments should be as small as possible, but not so small so the larger grafts do not fit (multigraft)
2. Extraction pattern should be random and 'feathered' towards the edges as to create a smooth transition between the extraction area and the non used area
3. the amound of grafts should be limited in order not to risk shock loss. This is technically very challenging since it involves many factors.
4. extractions skills are key. An unexperienced extractor will damage grafts during extractions and even possibly damage surrounding grafts. Furthermore failed transections should be limited to at maximum 1% since every missed graft mussed by made up by extractions additional grafts.
There are more issues that are required to preserve a donor area, but these are probably the most important ones.
There are no 'default' settings that can be learned when defining the extraction area. There is no black and white. There is no 'map' or preset instructions since every patient has difference characteristics.
Only professionals with a long track record can achieve a prestine looking donor area, again and again.
(picture : before - right after treatment - 20 days after treatment with partial shave)
Patients are for obvious reasons focussing on the results of a hair transplant. However they often forget the other side : the donor area.
Although the end results of a hair transplant should look naturall, the donor area should not be forgotten.
In our clinic we focus both on the 'problem' area as well as on the donor area.
We have learned through our 15 year experience performing FUE on a daily basis that preserving the donor is a balance excercise.
Basically there are 4 key factors that play an important role in preserving donor area
1. Instruments should be as small as possible, but not so small so the larger grafts do not fit (multigraft)
2. Extraction pattern should be random and 'feathered' towards the edges as to create a smooth transition between the extraction area and the non used area
3. the amound of grafts should be limited in order not to risk shock loss. This is technically very challenging since it involves many factors.
4. extractions skills are key. An unexperienced extractor will damage grafts during extractions and even possibly damage surrounding grafts. Furthermore failed transections should be limited to at maximum 1% since every missed graft mussed by made up by extractions additional grafts.
There are more issues that are required to preserve a donor area, but these are probably the most important ones.
There are no 'default' settings that can be learned when defining the extraction area. There is no black and white. There is no 'map' or preset instructions since every patient has difference characteristics.
Only professionals with a long track record can achieve a prestine looking donor area, again and again.
(picture : before - right after treatment - 20 days after treatment with partial shave)
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