Message From the Doctors
Consult a properly trained hair transplant surgeon offering both FUE and FUT for your best option.
Advantages & Disadvantages
We have been offering both FUT and FUE techniques since 2009. As the traditional FUE had many drawbacks, FUT was our main technique for many years until 2018, when we successfully developed the 3rd generation FUE-HD. FUE-HD not only produces result comparable with FUT, it can be combined with FUT as the COMBO technique. Now 85% of our patients opt for FUE-HD. Here we are comparing the pros and cons of FUT and FUE-HD ( not the traditional FUE ).
FUT |
FUE-HD |
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|---|---|---|
Good Candidate |
• Not Want Shaving • Extensive Balding Areas • Requests minimal downtime • Medium length hair style • Tight in Budget • Women |
• Most cases in Men • Very tight scalp • Previous Hair Transplant • Wants to keep short hair • Do not want Scar or Keloid-prone • Donor hair mixed quality |
| Unit for Estimating Cost | • Per Graft | • Per Hair ( Usually 1.8-2 hair per graft ) |
| Donor Area Shaving | • No Need | • Necessary |
| Harvesting Technique | • A strip of hair-bearing skin is excised • Follicles isolated under microscopes • Wound closed with 2 layers of suture • Measures to minimize donor scar |
• Follicles are punched out one by one • Punch diameter 0.8mm • Only good follicles are extracted • Requires a larger donor area |
| Area Covered | • Medium to very large | • Small to medium |
| Size of Graft | • 0.8 - 1.2 mm in diameter | • 0.6 - 0.8 mm in diameter |
| Graft Per Session (Average) |
• 1,800 - 2,800 Grafts • ( 3,200 - 5,000 Hair ) |
• 1,200 - 1,800 Grafts • ( 2,800 - 4,200 Hair ) |
| Graft Per Hour (Average) |
• 1,800 Graft ( 3,200 Hair ) | • 1,000 Graft ( 1,800 Hair ) |
| Our Top Number | • 4,500 Grafts • ( 9,000 Hairs ) |
• 2,500 Grafts • ( 5,500 Hairs ) |
| Quality of Grafts | • Good | • Better |
| Graft Transection | • 1 - 2% | • 1 - 3% |
| Pain | • No Pain during Procedure | • No Pain during Procedure |
| Density | • High | • Higher than FUT |
| Suture Removal | • Yes, after 5-7 Days | • No Need |
| Scar | • Linear scar, covered with hair | • Numerous small white dots |
| Donor Thinning | • No | • Not after 1st procedure |
| Resume Exercise | • After 2-3 Weeks | • After 1 Weeks |
| Common Complications | • Shock Loss ( Hair Shedding ) | • Numbness & Folliculitis |
| Recovery | • Tightness donor site 1st Week • Subsided after Stitches Removed |
• Numbness donor site for weeks • Slowly back to Normal |
Graft Quality
Functions of Surrounding Fatty Tissue
• Prevent dehydration when follicles out of body
• Protect the fragile hair root ( Dermal papillae )
• Contain Stem Cells which are required for regeneration of the follicle after transplant
FUT vs. FUE Grafts
For years we were told that follicles extracted by FUT has more fat and thus a higher survival rate and better final result. However after years of observation we have no doubt grafts extracted by FUE-HD, though having less fat, produce comparable if not better result, thanks to the use of latest biotechnology such as:
• ATP Spray and Storage Solution
• Low Level Laser Therapy
• Copper Peptide Supplement.
NEW FINDING !
Amount of fat plays a lesser role in protecting the extracted follicles when ATP and Laser are used.
Donor Area Postop
Even though the donor area needs to be shaved in FUE-HD, the 0.8mm punch holes heal rapidly and most patients cam return to work after one week.
FUT Donor Scar
FUT-Strip technique creates linear scar, on average 2-3mm in width. It can be covered by just 1 cm of hair.
FUE-HD Donor Scar
Tiny white dots are visible only on skin head. Donor thinning very uncommon after one procedure.
