The FUT hair transplant procedure is a method of hair transplantation from your donor area onto the bald area. The donor area is so called, because even in the advanced stage of Male pattern baldness, the hairs do not lose from sides of head and back of the head. Because these hairs are naturally being protected from the action of DHT hormone. As we all know, the DHT [Dihydroxy testosteron] is the main culprit to affect the baldness in human beings. Protection against this hormone, make the hairs on the donor area to survive from getting bald. Hence the hairs transplanted in the front or any other area on the scalp in FUT, behave as a protected hairs same as a hairs on donor area. And hence, they also remain forever unless and until your back hairs are there. All hairs do undergo the process of aging. They also become grey eventually too but remain lifelong.

FUT Hair transplant procedure is done under a local anesthesia. Unless and until the anesthesia is given to you the procedure cannot be called as painless. Just to make sure the whole procedure should be painless you have to bear pain for giving a local anesthesia. This may include 5 or 6 local cutaneous injections on the scalp. 1st injection of anesthesia is quite painful, subsequent shots are not that painful. During a procedure if you start feeling any pains, doctors give you additional anesthesia too so that the whole procedure should be run in a smooth and painless way. There is usually a protocol of antibiotics, painkillers and other medications for a week’s time following a procedure. Pain post hair transplant procedure depends on your pain threshold. If you can bear a good amount of pain easily then it is a painless procedure for you. If you have a very low pain threshold you can experience considerable pain post procedure. Surgeons do advise proper medications as per your pain threshold, so not to worry about it.

After the hair transplant procedure, it is recommended not to wash the head at least for a week. The surgeon calls the patient on the 8th day for removal of the clots. After that it is safe to wash the head. Hence, on the 8th to 10th day onward, you can start washing your head. You can wash the donor area from the 3rd or 4th day of the procedure if you want. The bandage is there on the back area for 24 to 48 hours. Once that is taken off, you can wash the area with lukewarm water with gentle rubbing with finger tips only, just to make sure that you must not hurt the area with your nails.

The stitches are removed usually on the 10th day of procedure, though it may extend upto 14 days if the injuries are not healed. There are chances that the skin surrounding the stitching area is swollen and painful with bump formation. In such cases, doctors recommend to wait to remove stitching till the injuries are healed properly.

The question is usually raised once you have done the hair transplant. In FUT, the skin strip is cut. This skin strip becomes a donor area now. Transplanted hairs remain for a lifetime, as long as it is taken from the recommended donor area. Once the hair transplant is done, the new hair growth starts from 3rd months onwards. Full hair growth is completed in around 10-12 months. After the hair transplant procedure, the transplanted hair may fall off within a month though. It is known as shock hair loss. It is a common phenomenon in all hair transplant procedures i.e. FUT and FUE. Transplanted hairs also undergo aging. It also becomes grey. But the hair on the back of the head i.e. on the donor area never becomes thin. Hence the transplanted hair too remains as long as the back hairs do.

FUT is known as Follicular Unit Transplantation. It is one of the methods of Hair transplantation procedures, other being a FUE, i.e. Follicular Unit Extraction. The FUT procedure is done under a local anaesthesia. In FUT, the strip of scalp, from the back of the head is cut. The back of the head from where the hair follicles are taken for the transplantation is called the donor area. The hair follicles are removed from the strip and transplanted onto the bald area. The gap produced due to the cut at the back, is stitched and filled properly. The skin stripped used to cut in FUT is around 1 to 1.5 centimeter [0.5 inches] only. It gives more visibility for surgeons during a procedure. The strip becomes the donor once cut. The best advantage of FUT is, in a very small area, huge amounts of grafts can be transplanted. The strip of around 1 cm will give more than 4,000 to 6,000 hair grafts. All the grafts from the strip are taken for the transplantation. Follicles then are transplanted in the frontal or verex area. The density given by the FUT is better as we have large hair follicles available for hair transplantation. The strip is sacrificed in the end, as there is no role left. The FUT is an old metod over FUE. Though it is effective in the advanced stage of baldness when the larger area is required to cover. Though it took less time, more operative procedure and bleeding happened in it.

Some of the Advantages of FUT over FUE are :-

• Better option if you need more area to be transplanted.
• Shorter operation duration
• Cost Effective.
• Better density.

Some of the Limitations of FUT over FUE :-

• Scar formation on the donor area, due to deep cut.
• Painful as compared to FUE
• Tender feeling on the scalp, post surgery due to stitches on the donor area.
• Longer Recovery time.
• Bumps, swelling, pains post procedure.

Fue hair transplant procedure is a unique technique by transplanting hair root / follicle as a whole to get rid of the baldness. The success rate is around 90-95%. Meaning if you transplant 100 hair follicles, 90-95 do survive. FUE is a manual surgical procedure in which the surgeon removes one hair follicle at a time and transplants it simultaneously. Hence there are changes to have manual mistakes. Also in medical fiend no one can promise 100% results. Hence considering practicality and expected results, the FUE hair transplant procedure is definitely successful.

Yes. FUE hair transplant procedure is done by zero shaving of hairs. Small hair along with its roots / follicles are removed and then transplanted. The hair follicles are implanted into the skin layers. Changing the location of hair follicles from donor area to bald area becomes a shock to hairs. It is medically termed as shock hair loss. Hence the FUE hairs do loose within a month or two from the scalp. Not to worry at all the follicles or roots are intact inside which starts producing the new hair growth from 3rd month onwards, and continues to grow to its fullest extent till 10-12 months.

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The FUE method is known as follicular unit extraction. In this method the hair follicles are removed entirely and transplanted onto the bald areas, one by one simultaneously. It is also known as the punch method of hair transplant. It is a minimal invasive technique. There is no strip cut on the donor area. Hence there is no scar formation.

Same as FUT FAQ’s ans no 06. Copy pasted for the reference with necessary changes.

The FUE hair transplant procedure is a method of hair transplantation from your donor area onto the bald area. The donor area is so called, because even in the advanced stage of Male pattern baldness, the hairs do not lose from sides of head and back of the head. Because these hairs are naturally being protected from the action of DHT hormone. As we all know, the DHT [Dihydroxy testosteron] is the main culprit to affect the baldness in human beings. Protection against this hormone, make the hairs on the donor area to survive from getting bald. Hence the hairs transplanted in the front or any other area on the scalp in FUT, behave as a protected hairs same as a hairs on donor area. And hence, they also remain forever unless and until your back hairs are there. All hairs do undergo the process of aging. They also become grey eventually too but remain lifelong.

The cost of the FUE hair transplant procedure depends upon a lot of things. It depends on the area of baldness, nature of donor area, numbers of hair follicles to be transplanted, density to be achieved, number of sittings required in the entire process, the quality of surgeon and expertise he is putting in it, pre procedure investigation, post procedure follow up and treatment and therapies [PRP or Mesotherapy if any] recommended, taxes, OT [Operation Theater] charges, paramedical staff and nursing charges etc.

The cost usually varies from Rs.25,000/- to Rs.1,50,000/- depending on the case to case requirement.

The question is usually common once you have done the hair transplant. In FUE the hair follicles are taken from the donor area. The donor area is so called, because even in the advanced stage of Male pattern baldness, the hairs do not lose from sides of head and back of the head, as they are naturally protected from baldness causing hormone. Hence transplanted hairs remain for a lifetime, as long as it is taken from the specific donor area.

Once the hair transplant is done, the new hair growth starts from 3rd months onwards. Full hair growth is completed in around 10-12 months.

After the hair transplant procedure, the transplanted hair may fall off within a month though. It is known as shock hair loss. It is a common phenomenon in all hair transplant procedures i.e. FUE as well as FUT.

Transplanted hairs also undergo aging. It also becomes grey. But the hair on the back of the head i.e. on the donor area never becomes thin. Hence the transplanted hair too remains as long as the back hairs do.

After the day of hair transplant procedure, usually the patient is called on the 8th day for clots removal procedure. All the sediments, clots are removed by a professional person. The patient then advised to take head wash. The head wash must be with gentle shampoo [baby wash usually] so that no irritation is produced. The shampoo on the wet scalp must be applied gently through finger tips only. You should not involve your nails in washing, just to avoid any damage and cross infection. The bandage on the donor area is removed in 24 to 48 hours. Once that is taken off, you can start washing the donor area from the 3rd or 4th day onwards in a similar fashion. Or else you can wash it from 8 th day onward too.

Hair transplant is a procedure in which the hairs are taken from your back and side of the head. These hairs have genetic protection against baldness naturally. Even if the person advances to last stage of baldness, these hairs always remain. As a result, when these particular hairs are taken for hair transplant, the transplanted hairs also remain the life-long. So we can definitely say that such hair transplants are permanent. These hairs do go through the natural growth cycle, that means even they fall when they complete their life cycle, but don’t worry the root still remains intact inside, which means, they will grow again after fall. If the hairs are mistakenly taken from some other areas of the head in a purpose to cover lager bald area, then it will not give surely of life-long life, which may also occur in inexperienced surgeries if done unprofessionally. The same may be seen in body hair transplant when the donor area is weak and transplant requires much more hair than what you require. In such cases the hair transplant may not be permanent.