FUT hair transplant to treat acute baldness

FUT hair transplant is performed under local anesthesia and lasts several hours.

The small groups of hair that grow on the scalp are called follicular units. So, in order to extract them and then graft them, this method follows the following steps:

The extraction of the hair band

The surgeon first makes an incision in the back of the skull In order to extract the hair follicles. He cuts a strip of the hair whose length depends on the bald area to be repopulated. In general, it varies between 10 to 25 cm in length and 2 cm in width

In order to minimize trauma to follicular units and hair follicles, the band is extracted in a single step, that is the advantage of this technique which allows to have a large number of viable follicular units. The scar is then closed with staples or stitches.

Cutting the strip and isolating the grafts

In order to collect the grafts, medical technicians take the hair band and cut it under a microscope. The technique used, called Single Strip Harvesting, provides a good quality of grafts thanks to stereoscopic binocular microscopes that enable the professionals of the hair transplant to cut out the follicular units carefully and finely.

The Incisions and the Implantation of grafts

Once the grafts are collected, the surgeon inserts the hair implants one by one into the incisions. After preserving and ensuring the growth of the hair follicles, he inserts them. Indeed, the second advantage of the FUT technique is that the surgeon uses tiny reception sites by making micro incisions. The surgeon must respect the distribution, the density and the re-growth angle of the hair for a homogeneous and a natural effect.