FOLLICULAR UNIT GRAFTING

Before making a decision about hair transplantation, it is important to understand the basic process of hair growth. The average person is born with 100,000 – 125,000 hair follicles distributed throughout the scalp. Hair naturally grows out of the scalp in irregular groupings called follicular units. Each follicular unit bundle may contain one, two, three, or even four hairs. Since your native hair naturally grows in these follicular units, state-of-the-art hair transplantation utilizes follicular unit grafts to obtain the same natural appearance.

The evolution of hair transplantation has progressed from large plugs containing 20 – 30 hairs, to minigrafts containing several follicular units in one graft, to individual follicular unit micrografts which contain one to four hairs tightly arranged in a bundle. These bundles naturally occur in the scalp. Follicular unit grafts are taken from the donor hair that is removed from the back of the head. Then our highly trained and experienced technicians use stereoscopic microscopes to prepare the follicular units. These high-powered microscopes are essential for cutting premium grafts and eliminating the possibility of damage to surrounding follicles.