I had been looking into hair transplant for a very long time, as a middle aged man I was very distressed to find out that I was loosing my hair. I had memories of my father always having a thick head of hair at my age, so I was shocked when I began thinning out. That's when I came across FUE, a technique of hair transplant that is rather new. I had been rather concerned at how dramatic and severe actual surgery was for hair, but my self esteem really was suffering.

Once I came across the FUE procedure I thought that is sounded perfect for me, but I found all of the information rather daunting. I would encourage anyone to research thoroughly before making a decision regarding FUE. I found out that the biggest difference between Follicular Unit Extraction and the strip method is actually down to the technique used for extracting the follicular units. With FUE, a specialised punch is used to extract follicles from the scalp. The main advantage of this is that the units are extracted separately rather than in a large group, which removes the use of scalpels and stitching within the procedure.


Although this new procedure is a break through for hair transplants it is still quite difficult to find surgeries that are able to offer this process due to the specialist technique that it involves. I did manage to find a surgery that was appropriate for me, but my advice to anyone who is looking, is that your transplant surgeons should be able to demonstrate their previous experience with this method, and present the results to you. I had my own surgeon do this and it meant I felt entirely comfortable with the procedure and the end result I would be left with.

FUE allows for patients to receive smaller hair transplants for those that are in the initial stages of hair loss such as myself. The grafts can be at around 500 hairs per session and really do suit those who need to have areas such as thinning hairlines and temporal areas. I would recommend this surgery to someone who usually wears a shaved head, as this type of surgery is so non-invasive it leaves no visible scarring to the donor area. Having said that I would like to mention that with all surgeries there are the possibility of complications and although FUE has been extremely successful for me, all surgery procedures should be well researched. Good Luck!