Hair Transplant with the FUE Technique

The inability of the FUT Method to meet the demand for hair transplants and its many disadvantages led to the search for a new hair transplant technique. The FUE Method, which emerged about 10 years after the FUT Method was first applied, is the result of such a search. The FUE Method, which collects follicles one by one from the donor area with special devices following the invention of the micromotor device, was in fact one of the revolutionary developments of its time.

In the FUE Method, the number of grafts to be transplanted into the patient evaluated as suitable for a hair transplant is determined. If the nape donor area is suitable, donors are taken one by one with micromotors only from the nape donor area; if not, from the donor area that exists along the lower beard and the chest. They are collected with special forceps and kept in isotonic sodium chloride. Afterwards, local anesthesia is applied to the transplant area and the area is swollen with a special mixture fluid called tumescent. This fluid is applied to minimize bleeding and to create sufficient tissue tension while opening channels. As many channels as the planned number of grafts are opened in the transplant area, and this takes about an hour and a half. The follicles to be transplanted are carefully placed by two people with special forceps into the opened channels; this takes between three and six hours.