FUT graft and FUE grafts

Please see the two photos. The only difference is the FUT grafts have tissue around its follicles and the FUE grafts have no tissue. 

FUE is a blind procedure, the deeper the cutting, the more chance of dissection of the follicles. The standard method is to blindly punch through the skin then use a strong forceps to pull them out. This is the reason why there are no tissues are around the follicle level and the follicle is left exposed with no protection.

Why we don’t offer FUE procedure?

Why we don’t offer FUE procedure?

Because we don’t think it’s your best interest!

Don’t listen to what people tell you! Take sometime, do your study seriously, ask questions, use your own intelligent and make your own decision.

Differences between FUT and FUE:

The only different between FUT and FUE is donor harvesting.

FUT uses blade and FUE uses punch. The recipient site transplant are completely the same.

Different tool used produced different result!

Comparison	FUE	FUT
Is it the latest technique?	no, it is the oldest punch graft but change the size of punch
Tool	punch	blade
Donor harvesting	blind	under direct microscopy vision
Wound treatment	leave open	closed
Scar	thousand of small punch scars	one linear scar
Scar distribution (in same length)	5 to 6 times wider	one line only
Total Scar Size	10 times bigger
Scar long term effect	permanent	permanent
For keloid patient	disaster-hard to treat thousand keloids	easier- only one scar to treat
Quality of graft	defect graft (no tissue around follicle)	intact graft (come with tissue around follicle)
Growth rate of transplantation	61.40%	86%	Read Dr.Beehner's study
Impact to 2nd surgery	huge-scar tissues change the hair direction	minimum- can use different donor area
Length of hair need to cover up the scar	1 cm	2 cm
Hairstyle options such as marine cut	no	yes
Price	Double

Why most surgeons prefer FUE?

  

FUE: need only one technician

FUT: need 3-4 technicians

Some surgeons do everything by themselves without hiring any assistance to save on business costs. It is for their own best interest, not yours.

In addition to the overhead expense, the surgery fee is double for the FUE technique. The incentive using FUE for physicians are simply irresistible. Especially for new physician who’s just starting his practice with only 3 to 5 surgeries a month. It’s difficult to start a business when you need to hire 3 to 4 technicians to assist.

ISHRS Warning

Learn from one hair transplant surgeon’s own experience.

Dr. M Beehner’s Study about FUE and FUT

Below is  Dr. M Beehner’s  (3560 hairs/ follicles) study which was presented at the ISHRS annual meeting on Sep 2015.

Please see the two photos. The only difference is the FUT grafts have tissue around its follicles and the FUE grafts have no tissue. 

FUE is a blind procedure, the deeper the cutting, the more chance of dissection of the follicles. The standard method is to blindly punch through the skin then use a strong forcep to pull them out. This is the reason why there are no tissues are around the follicle level and the follicle is left exposed with no protection.

The impact to survival rate is 10-14 months after surgery- 

FUT 86% survival rate (765/890) vs FUE 61.4% survival rate ( 547/890).

The difference is 24.6 %.

We all know donor hair is limited, our worst nightmare is that we might run out of it someday .
Remaining concerns are, what’s the impact to the transplanted hair quality and the life of it? So far no one has done this study.    

FUT Scar

Our FUT Scars

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?

No Linear Scar, New Approaches!

You don’t like to have a linear scar at the back of your head.

FUE is not the only option anymore.

We have new approaches:

1, FUT+FUE approach
We can use FUT method to transplant as many grafts as needed (at the 50% of FUE cost ). With the Tricophytics Closure technique, it will ensure a fine scar. After 6 months if you don’t like the fine scar we can transplant 100 to 200 FUE grafts onto the scar to make the scar invisible.

2, FUT+FUT approach
First step as above but instead of using FUE graft to cover up the scar, we can cut only 2-3 cm strips to use as grafts.

3, FUT+TATOO
This approach is much easier.First step as above but use tatoo to make scar invisible.

Advantages of these approaches compare to total FUE (no linear scar from all approaches)-

1, Much better result. Grafts quality is much better to cut under microscope direct vision then blind FUE extraction.
2, No extensive shave at donor site during the surgery.
3, Leave only 100-200 small punch scars compare to thousand scars left from total FUE procedure.4, Save thousand and thousand surgery fee.

Disadvantage-You may need second minor surgery. But anyway, FUE procedure always needs more than one procedure too.