Strip Hair Transplant

FUE Hair Transplant

Stitch

Cutting open the skin and closing it with stitches
So can have stitch related problems

No stitches
Minimally invasive

Scar

Stitches leave permanent scar at the back of the head. You cannot keep your hair short because the scar will be visible

Multiple pin head tiny marks which are not visible even if you keep you trim your hair to the size “0”

Stretching of scar

Can prolong healing period and one has to avoid physical activity for weeks

No such problem and one can start physical activity soon after transplant

Recovery

2 – 3 weeks usually need 1 month of rest for atheletes, body builders etc

3-4 days. Exercise, weight training, sports, can be resumed in 4-5 days

Donor complications

Not uncommon e.g. wide scar, painful scar, delayed healing of stitches and give away of stitches

Practically nil

Short hair style

Scar becomes visible, so sporting long hair style is mandatory

Can easily sport short hair style

Numbness above stitches

Numbness above the stitches often last for months or permanently due to division of nerves in the line of cut

No numbness because there is no division of nerves

Pain in the stitches

Pain for 10-30 days and sometimes even permanently due to entrapment of nerve in the area of cut

Practically no post operative pain

Tightness in the donor area

Common for few months

Nil

Blood loss in surgery

More

Minimal

Operation time

Less

More

Donor hair availability

3000 and sometimes 3500 in one sitting
Usually not more than 6000 in two or three sittings

5000 in one sitting
Could be even more than 10,000 with body hair transplant

For grey hairs

Difficult to visualize and can have more transactions

Procedure and transaction rate remains unchanged with grey hairs

For limited or poor donor area

You cannot select good number of 3 and 4 hair grafts

Maximum number of 3 and 4 hair grafts can be selected to increase the number of transplanted hairs

For patients with tight scalp

Larger sessions and multiple sittings become difficult

Ideal method

Shock loss

More chances due to more invasive nature of procedureesp in the donor area

Rare, due to minimally invasive nature of the procedure

For those with more risk of scarring like Asians

More chances of stretched out scar and hypertrophic scar

Minimum such chances

Control on graft harvesting

It is possible that the strip may have less or more hairs than pre calculated

You can calculate and control the exact number of grafts extraction as you wish

Special advantages

• With FUE, you can select single hair or multiple hair follicle when needed
• In patients with tight scalp or multiple strip scar only FUE is effective
• FUE can correct scarring caused by strip technique

Time for transplant

3000 grafts in 5 hours

3000 grafts in 10 hours

Surgeons time

Surgeon spends 20% of time
Technicians spend 80% of time on the procedure

Surgeon spends 80% of time
Technicians spend 20% of the time on the procedure