FUE: Follicular Unit Extraction

The FUE procedure is a type of hair transplant surgery that involves extracting individual hair follicles from a donor part of the body, usually the sides and back of the head.

How it Works FUE Transplant?

FUE is the procedure that is more popular because each follicle is removed with a tiny round surgical punch.

In FUE harvesting, individual follicular units are extracted directly from the hair restoration patient’s donor area, ideally one at a time. This differs from strip-harvesting because, in strip harvesting, a strip of skin is removed from the patient and then dissected into many individual follicular units. The follicular units obtained by either method are the basic building blocks of follicular unit transplantation (FUT).

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Is FUE Transplant Scarless?

There is no linear scar and patients are usually free to cut their hair as short as they wish.

FUE harvesting of grafts causes “pit” scarring, small, round, and typically white scars in the patient’s donor area where the grafts have been removed.

Both the pit scarring from FUE and linear scar from strip harvesting are often hard to detect when hair in the donor area is at a normal length and the extraction is performed by a skilled surgeon.

While the outcome of the healing process, and thus the appearance of scar tissue, depends on several variables (including the type of extraction, the skill of the surgeon, and, in strip harvesting, the method of wound closure), in both FUE and FUT short cropped hair or a shaved head will typically reveal little.