Hair Transplant Adviser

Question:
Is numbness in the back/donor area permanent?
Answer:
The loss of feeling associated with the strip technique of donor hair harvesting should be temporary. The nerves in the back generally carry sensation vertically in an upward fashion. When the incision is made these nerves are severed, which causes a numb-type feeling directly above the incision [...]

Question:
What’s the difference between the Strip method and FUE (follicular unit extraction) for getting the donor hair?
Answer:
First and most importantly, I make sure my patients understand the greatest limit to any hair transplantation is that there is a fixed and limited amount of good genetic hair that we can transfer to the balding areas.
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When a scalp is shaved and magnified, it is noted that the hair does not come out only as closely-spaced, single hairs. Instead, the hair exits the scalp in small bundles. These are follicular units. Although some follicular units do consist of a single hair, the majority are 2 and 3 hair units. In scalps [...]