I had a consultation and the doctor said that FUT is more powerful procedure than FUE and has more advantages, What is Dr. Cole opinion?

FUE allows for the harvesting of hair all over the permanent zone. This allows for potentially more hair than one may achieve from strip surgery especially if strip surgery is limited to a single strip scar. The disadvantage to FUE is that you will thin out the donor area. This should be carried out in a manner such that the area is equally thinned out. Also FUE is not a completely scarless procedure. In some individuals white spots may occur at the extraction sites. Overall these white spots are considerably less noticeable than the strip scar.

Strips result in distortion of hair growth angles. Properly performed FUE does not distort the direction of hair growth angles. FUE is a far better procedure that is in the hands of the physician. Conversely, strip surgery yields fewer hairs per graft and the graft dissection is in the hands of the surgery technicians with varied degrees of skill and no medical license to practice medicine.

FUE is a far more advanced procedure with greater potential to the patient. Patients have the capacity to receive more hair from fewer grafts. This results in better results from fewer grafts. The transection rate from FUE is better than with strip surgery in nearly 100% of the cases.

Dear, Dr. Cole my nature of hair is curly can i use my body (leg. chest hair) in crown area by FUE in your clinic. i did no more donor area but the doctor said to me i can’t do FUE because my hair is curly!!! and the grafts will be damaged during extarcting. Is it true?

Those with curly hair can be good candidates for FUE, however, it is very important that these individuals select an experienced physician who is properly trained in how to remove such grafts.  The extraction process must be modified slightly because it is more difficult to detect the direction of follicle growth underneath the surface layer of the scalp.    Curly hair will generally take more time to extract but, as with all hair types, the transection rates and yield will ultimately depend on the physician’s expertise and skills.

One advantage to curly hair is that it provides more coverage value than straight hair, meaning that less grafts will be needed, per square centimeter, to achieve desired results.

I am a 25 year old male who is a NW class 3. I like to keep his hair short so i am afraid of the strip procedure because i knows it will leave a scar. I prefers FUE, but i know it’s more expensive. I save the extra money, however to avoid the strip scar. My concern is that i have been told by strip physicians that FUE does not produce as good a yield as a strip procedure. Is this true?

Dr. Cole responded to the misinformation he’s heard from strip physicians regarding hair growth yield from FUE, and to a number of other myths that strip physicians promulgate regarding FUE.
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How long after an FUE hair transplant before a person can – A, shave his head with a razor and B, shave his head with a number 1 or 2 setting? Also, how does HGH affect hair growth and hair loss?

Often times the head is shaved in preparation for an FUE procedure. It is possible to shave the head immediately after a procedure, but it is probably best to wait about 3 weeks. The appearance of the shaved donor area will depend on the total number of FUE grafts obtained in a procedure. FUE removes intact follicular units from the donor area. This will result in fewer follicular units. If 25% of the follicular units are removed from the donor area, this will leave gaps in the donor area where follicular units were removed in an effort to relocate them to the top. A number 1 guard will conceal these gaps, however. It is possible to clip to a number one at any time after a FUE procedure. If you are concerned about gaps in the donor area, one way to minimize these is to add body hair into the FUE extractions at the same time that grafts are removed.

There is no scientifically documented relationship between human growth hormone and hair loss or hair growth. There are anecdotal reports of grey hair regaining color and an increased rate of growth with HGH.

Can beard hair be removed through hair transplantation?

There are two ways to remove hair from the donor area. One is by strip method. The other is by removal of individual follicular units. The strip method is not acceptable because it will leave a permanent linear scar. Individual follicular unit removal is acceptable and does work. In fact we often employ this for transplant of beard hair to the scalp. We also use this method to remove unwanted facial hair. This can occur with some forms of face lifting where the hair from the beard is relocated behind the ear. This can be a very difficult and unnatural place to get a razor to shave the beard. We have also used this method to relocate eyebrow hair from a location well above the eyebrow and re-implant the hair into the thinner medial aspect of the eyebrow to create a natural eyebrow transplant.

You should first consider laser hair removal for unwanted facial hair. This may require more than one procedure to remove all the hair. Laser hair removal is only indicated when you have pigmented hair. If there is no pigment in the hair or the hair has turned “grey”, you laser hair removal will not work. Removal of facial hair by CIT or FIT may require more than one pass, as well, to remove all the hair.