Comparison of advantages and disadvantages of FUT and FUE in hair transplant surgery

The principle of hair transplantation is to transplant the healthy hair follicles in the posterior occipital region that are not attacked by the male pattern baldness gene to the hair loss area.

Hair transplant surgery is further divided into: FUT and FUE. The difference between the two is in the way of "hair removal". The hair removal technique determines the integrity of the hair follicle and also affects the survival rate of the hair follicle after surgery.

FUT hair transplant surgery

Advantages: The price is low, and a large number of hair follicles can be obtained at one time. It is suitable for patients with excessive hairline, a lot of hair loss, baldness, and male pattern baldness. Because of the fast hair retrieval time, the survival rate of hair follicles is relatively high.

Disadvantages: The recovery period for surgery is long.

FUE hair transplant surgery

Advantages: Small wounds, faster healing, and hair transplants from other parts of the body. Most of them are used for beauty hair transplants, beard transplants or small amounts of hair transplants for scars.

Disadvantages: It takes a long time to drill a single plant, the price is high, and the number of hairs to be retrieved is limited. It is not suitable for patients who need a large number of hair transplants and need a second hair transplant in the future.

Is hair transplant surgery really scarless?

Many clinics emphasize that there will be no scars after surgery, is that true? What is the difference between FUT and FUE hair removal scars?

FUT hair transplant surgery

A thin skin flap is extracted from the back of the occiput to separate the hair follicles, and then special suture techniques are used to make the scars extremely difficult to detect. Even a second hair transplant will not add additional scars.

FUE hair transplant surgery

Scattering individual hair follicles in the posterior occipital area will leave punctate scars in a large area. If you want to re-transplant, the scars will be cumulative and make the operation difficult.

Any wound will leave a scar. In addition to the human body healing the wound on its own, modern medicine has also made the treatment of scars less and less obvious, but it is difficult to achieve complete scarlessness, so stop believing in exaggerated and false advertising terms. !

Why many clinics are reluctant to do FUT hair transplant surgery

In addition to years of surgical experience and aesthetics, FUT hair transplant physicians must also have a stable and manpower hair division team in order to achieve better postoperative results more efficiently.

FUE hair transplantation is the choice of many physicians just entering the field of hair transplantation due to its technicality, low threshold for manpower allocation, and no need for a multi-person team.

Generally, newly opened clinics can only focus on FUE hair transplantation due to the lack of long-term training hair division teams.

The pros and cons of hair transplant robots

With the advent of hair transplant robots, many people think that the first choice for hair transplants is hair transplant robots. Is this true?

Although hair transplant robots are the trend of the future, the current technology is not mature enough. Although they can replace labor, there are still many parts that cannot replace manual labor. Even if many clinics use them, they highly appreciate the advantages of hair transplant robots, but they do not tell you about hair transplant robots. weakness is:

• The hair transplant robot has a large diameter of hair removal, so that the scar after healing will be more obvious, and due to the limitation of the instrument, it cannot be uniformly removed.
• Manual hair removal can be adjusted at any time according to the direction of the hair root, while the hair transplant robot uses the estimated hair removal angle with parameters, and the relative hair removal truncation rate is also high.
• The robotic arm is not like a human, except that it can drill into the hair follicles other than the back of the occiput (for example: beard, chest hair, leg hair) and the softer skin near the neck.
• The robot claims that the average hair removal speed is about 600 plants per hour (excluding pre-operation, setting, auxiliary adjustment and hair follicle extraction time), and experienced surgeons can even drill faster than the robot.
• The hair transplant robot takes the hair by drilling holes (each drilling is called a havest attempt). After drilling the holes, the hair follicles are extracted. After these two steps are completed, the patient can be allowed to get up and wait for the next stage of hair implantation, and a lot of time has been spent in the hair removal part.
• During the execution, it is necessary to fix the post-pillow hair removal site completely immobile, and the pain index is high.
• It needs to be able to accept bald head styling or a large area of ​​shaving. Due to the limitation of machine hair removal, shaving may take more than 8 cm.
• The hair transplant robot should be called a "hair removal" robot. The currently developed technology can only fetch hair but not grow hair. However, if you choose to use it, you must first pay a high start-up fee.

The pros and cons of other hair transplant machines on the market

The machine advertises that the hair follicles are all in a closed and sterile space from hair extraction to hair transplantation: the hair follicles are at risk of drying out in the high-speed flow of gas, and it is difficult to accurately control the depth of the hair follicles after the hair follicles are pneumatically pushed into the holes.

There are machines that claim that the original hair follicles can regenerate after hair removal, and the removed hair follicles have a 97% survival rate: this is very conflicting and paradoxical. There is no academic paper to prove this statement, and the removed hair follicles have a 97% survival rate. The more complete the transplant, the higher the survival rate of the transplant; if the hair follicles in the original site can be regenerated, doesn’t it mean that the removed hair follicles are incomplete? So where did the 97% survival rate come from? The concept of hair transplantation is to reallocate existing resources and cannot increase the overall number.

Advantages of manual hair transplant

Although machine hair transplantation is a future trend, the current technical stage also increases the risk of hair follicle wear. The pure hand-made Korean hair transplantation is an absolute test of the doctor's hair transplantation technology, surgical experience, careful patience and hand dexterity. of fluency.

Is the whole process of hair transplant performed by a doctor?

Generally speaking, it is a professional and formal practice for doctors to implant the separated hair follicles one by one after the hair removal operation is completed. Putting on the blindfold or gauze indirectly reveals that the clinic may not complete the hair transplant surgery by a physician, but by a non-professional assistant or by assisting in the implantation action, or by an inexperienced physician, which may affect the hair transplant surgery. after effect.