FUE - Body Hair Transplant
Here are a series of very good questions on hair transplant with FUE (follicular unit extraction) and body hair transplant from a patient who did his homework and educated himself on his upcoming surgery.
Question 1: Do you have a pre op protocol for chest to scalp?
Answer: For FUE from chest I want to have a clean wet shave from the whole chest one week before the surgery day so in a week when we do harvest the grafts we only remove growing hairs (the ones that are in anagen phase). Scalp hair on the other hand, I don’t want it shaved at all and I will do my own clipping right before the procedure. We do FOX test for all new patients to determine their candidacy for FUE with a small number FUE harvesting under local anesthesia.
Question 2: How many grafts can you transplant per day and how many hours is a typical working day?
Answer: Just for you to get the idea of how long does a FUE hair transplant may take, the last two FUE that we did in US hair restoration office were 1500 grafts per day each. One of them took 9 and the other one 11 hours. In both surgeries we used scalp hair only.
Question 3: Are grafts that are extracted placed straight into the recipient incisions or are they checked under the microscope first?
Answer: All grafts need to be visualized under microscope to make sure they are intact (not transected). Most of them need to be trimmed too. We usually have to remove some of the upper layers of skin and a little of extra fat around the grafts for them to be in the ideal size for transplant.
I will post the rest of this Q and A series in next few days.
Tags: anagen, body hair transplant, chest hair, follicular unit extraction, fox, fue, grafts, scalp hair, telogen