The Latest on Hair Transplants

A regular hair transplantation procedure requires the removal of donor strip of hair from the back of the head from where the follicular unit grafts are dissected under a microscope. After this process, the grafts are then kept in saline for preservation purposes. They are then transplanted to a bald patch near the crown area of the scalp.
The time consuming and tedious process enables a minimal amount, 500 to 600, of folicular grafts per day. However, thanks to the recent hair transplant advances, this technique is often replaced by the follicular unit extraction (FUE). The cost per graft of FUE is typically twice the cost of the standard follicular unit hair transplant procedure discussed above but it is comparatively faster and minimally invasive.



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Standard FUE procedures involve making a small round punch in the donor area to extract the follicular grafts. The follicular units extracted using this process is typically referred to as "blunt dissection" where a punch is made to envelope the entire follicular unit separating it from the surrounding soft tissues.



Once the underlying follicular unit is separated from the surrounding tissues, it is easily extracted using a small forceps. The small holes left behind after the follicular unit extraction gradually heal over the next few days and are not detectable to the naked eye once the patient's hair grows out. The healing process duration is much less than the extraction procedure.



While the FUE method has been implemented by most hair transplant clinics, the standard strip excision method is still the most well-known hair transplant method because it is more affordable than the FUE.



Additionally, because of several recent hair transplant breakthroughs like the usage of trichophytic closure technique, the linear donor scar made by the strip excision procedure is now often made almost undetectable to the naked eye . Due to this advancement, the FUE procedure has been rendered much less appealing.




Hair transplantation analysis



In addition to the hair transplant advancements in the hair transplant procedures, plenty of research is also ongoing to clone the hair. If the hair transplantation research is successful it will be possible to make several copies of donor hair in the laboratory. The application of this technique would be used in the form of hair transplantation. In the traditional procedures, the biggest limitation is often the donor which is not able to meet required density. However, hair cloning promises to overcome this problem by having the amount of hair required to be grown in a laboratory from a single donor hair and then implanting it into the scalp.



The research underway for the cloning process is rather difficult. There are many hurdles that must be overcome pertaining to the safety and cosmetic characteristics of cloned hair. However, the research has already allowed for some significant breakthroughs in hair loss medication such as Dutasteride.



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