Category: FUE (Follicular Unit Excision)

Dr. Steven Gabel is honored to join several prominent leaders in the Hair Restoration field as a faculty member at the 2019 hands on cadaver lab and live surgery workshop in Istanbul, Turkey. The three day workshop will take place April 19 – 21, 2019. At this event, each step of the Follicular Unit Excision […]

Surgical Restoration for Straight Hair Certain hair characteristics will shape the surgical treatment options best suited for a particular patient. People with straight hair are generally considered better candidates for FUE graft harvesting than curly haired patients. Harvesting the individual follicles from patients with straight hair is much less labor intensive when compared to patients […]

Post-Operative Care of Your Hair Transplant in Portland, Oregon For our patients who had a hair restoration in our Portland, Oregon practice, the postoperative care is vital for optimal results. In fact, even though the actual hair transplant lasts 8 to 12 hours, the postoperative care and instructions last for a few weeks. The most […]

Calculating Your Hair Grafts The amount of hair needed to create a cosmetically impactful hair restoration is an art as much as a science. It requires the aesthetically trained and experienced eye of a hair transplantation surgeon to evaluate each patient based upon their goals, their treatment plan, personal physiology, age, and a variety of […]

At the Gabel Center, we strive to accommodate and assess every hair loss patient in a holistic and customized manner. For patients with extensive baldness that exceeds their donor area’s ability to safely provide grafts for transplantation, alternative sources of donor hair can be found and evaluated throughout the body. Harvesting body hair allows surgeons […]

FUT (Follicular Unit Transplant) and FUE (Follicular Unit Excision) are both procedures at a skilled surgeon’s disposal for hair restoration. The preference about when to call upon which method is based upon the mutual discretion of the patient and physician. The variation in the techniques used to harvest donor grafts between the two methods can […]

Dr. Gabel strives to make sure patients experience optimal healing and minimal scarring after their hair restoration procedures and he has made certain that his methods are conducive to reducing scar tissue and mitigating the cosmetic impact of potential scars. Scarring After A Hair Transplant A scar is a byproduct of your body healing an […]

Follicular unit excision (FUE) Follicular unit excision (FUE) is gaining popularity for a variety of reasons.  In most consultations with patients desiring a hair transplant at our Portland Hair Restoration Center, I discuss the virtues of FUE for my patients.  I also discuss the pros and cons.  There is a misconception that FUE is scarless […]

Dr. Steven Gabel offers his patients a wide array of hair restoration treatment options and strives to stay on the cutting edge of modern medicine while doing so. One of the most sought after surgeries in the field is follicular unit excision (FUE, formerly Extraction), which can cosmetically benefit many patients suffering from hair loss […]