While shopping for follicular unit extraction (FUE)...

[WHTC Clinic]

The aspects of FUE that patients should be mindful of is cost, transection rate of the surgeon, and experience of the surgeon's medical assistants. Surgical hair restoration is an investment for the patients that can be for better or worse. A patient shouldn €™t pay too much and shouldn €™t pay too little for an FUE session. FUE is more labor intensive than FUT, and hence there is difference in cost of the procedures.

Transection is the terminal damage of a patient €™s precious donor resources. Since donor resources are certainly finite, patients should want to ensure that their surgeon is producing minimal trauma in their donor area. A good FUE surgeon can provide its patient with a relatively low rate of transection. Damaging a significant amount of hair will usually provide poor aesthetic results and insurmountable loss to restore future hair loss. There is no better way of describing this atrocity than considering a patient to be a donor of their hair follicles to medical science. Wasting hair to inefficient harvesting methods essentially realizes a patient to be an unsuspecting victim and statistic.

Knowing just a few small details can help a patient explore the many options available by follicular unit extraction. Any surgery will produce scarring. Similar to FUT, FUE can also cause noticeable scarring when performed by untrained hands. Oftentimes, physical scarring will also cause emotional scarring that can have permanent effects. Taking the advantage of available knowledge is the best way to identify a bad FUE surgeon. Ironically, the lack of knowledge can produce a bad FUE surgeon. FUE surgeons will be better than others regardless of their experience so proper training is key.
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[Westcoaster]

The problem for the prospective patient is that unless there is an online presence about doctors they can claim to be the best in the world on their websites regardless of their skills. Forums like this are invaluable whilst researching, it may be labor intensive but it's worth the man hours.

 

[WHTC Clinic]

@westcoaster

Agreed. This online community has so much to offer those who seek the knowledge. It creates a necessary government for the consumer.

Yes. Follicular unit extraction is totally worth the extra effort. The aesthetic results in the donor area, the doctors' ability to select quality grafts, and the patient is offered more time with the surgeon. These are all great reasons to negotiate the pricing differentiation.

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My opinions are my own.

 

[Bigmac]

Nice post, thanks for sharing.

 

[WHTC Clinic]

On another important note. You could think of transection as cutting a graft at any particular location in a straight-through fashion. Transection is unintentional terminal damage to a hair graft in the conventional FUE hair transplant session. Typically the FUE transection of the grafts will occur during the extraction process while the graft remains in the patient €™s donor area. In a conventional FUE and FUT session, each transection is essentially sufficient to prevent the hair from any further growth. You definitely don't want hair transection during any conventional surgical hair restoration procedure. A conventional session of FUE should never encompass the intentional transection of any hair.

There's a simple technique of donor hair regeneration where the surgeon intentionally bisects the graft at a certain location (above the dermal papilla) after it has been successfully removed from the donor area. When the graft has been bisected at the appropriate area, there are two parts that remain for implantation. The idea is that each portion will produce a complete hair after the patient's growth factors are added, thus providing two hairs that can possibly be used more than once.
The term bisect is more commonly associated with the unconventional FUE donor regeneration procedure involving bisecting a graft into two portions. With certain hair regeneration methods, the bisection of the graft occurs above the dermal papilla. The idea is to implant these two portions of the graft along with growth factors to allow for stem cell production to produce two hairs. Donor regeneration protocols and procedures are still in developmental stages. Somehow I hope we are able to see something positive come from the time we are devoting to articulate hair doubling procedure.

 

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Have a lovely weekend everyone!







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