Showing posts with label bare graft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bare graft. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Compare the Quality of FUE Graft and FUT Graft


FUE grafts are cut blindly using punch, basically are bare grafts, no tissue at button part. No study discuss about regrowth hair rate, quality and life time yet.



FUE Grafts:




FUT grafts are cut under microscopic direct vision, contain a lot of tissue including regrowth elements bulge and sebaceous gland.

FUT Grafts:



Which type of graft do you prefer?




Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Wine and Hair Transplant

The top news around the world today. ONE GLASS OF WINE A DAY INCREASES
RISK OF BREAST CANCER. It shocked so many people, because not too long ago, they said to drink one glass of wine a day to protect your heart and was published on all medias, That encouraged many people to drink wine every night.
This kind of controversial report it is not the first to happen, and it happens very often. It is
like vitamins, they always have controversial reports.
It happened in hair transplant field too. To try to transplant more and more grafts in certain area, the grafts should be cut smaller and smaller, without doing any study about its impact to the quality of regrowth and hair quality. Especially a lot of FUE grafts and not even a intact graft
( like bare graft)
We all know donor hair is limited if it were wasted, we never be able to undo it.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Sharp Punch and Dull Punch

Hair alignment is different in and out of the scalp.

Using FUE procedure to punch the grafts is a blind procedure.

There is no way to see through the skin. Therefore, two types of punch (sharp and dull punch) are used to reduce the transection rate.


Deep Level

Advantage

Disadvantage

Sharp Punch

shallow, only cut through skin

less transection

bare graft
caping

Dull Punch

deep to whole follicle

punch out whole follicle

more transection




* Sharp punch only punch through skin, need to use two forceps to pull out the grafts.Because the tissue around the follicles didn’t separate, a lot of time follicle come out without any surroundings tissue,that we call bare grafts. Sometimes during pulling, only skin pull out,follicle still stay in the scalp, that we call capping.*Dull punch method,use blunt dissection to isolate the follicular units from the surrounding tissue.Require more experience and skill to perform, even the speed of punch is very important.