What Happens During FUT Hair Transplant Surgery?
If you do decide that FUT is your best option, we can refer you to one of our trusted colleagues. Here’s what to expect:
Preparing for Surgery
All hair transplantation methods require careful pre-planning to ensure adequate grafts are obtained from easily concealed areas. For FUT, hair-bearing skin and tissue are removed from the lower back of the scalp. This area is shaved down to stubble length to prepare it for extraction.
The hair and scalp are cleaned using a special antibiotic wash, which decreases the risk of infection after your procedure. To ensure a natural-looking hairline, the surgeon will use a wax marking pen to map out grafting areas, providing maximum coverage with allotted grafts.
Applying a Local Anesthetic
When the area is prepped and ready to go, the surgeon will apply a local anesthetic to numb the harvest site.
Removing the Tissue Strip
The surgeon creates a long incision using a scalpel and removes the tissue strip. This strip of extracted tissue is usually less than 1.5 cm in width. The surgeon will then close the incision using stitches or staples.
Dissecting the Tissue
The strip of tissue is examined while one of their technicians carefully harvests hair follicles for grafting. Technicians count each graft to make sure we extract enough healthy hair follicles to achieve the desired hairline and cover the treatment area.
Implanting the Grafts
After the grafts are ready, the surgeon will use a local anesthetic to prepare the scalp for hair transplantation. This process is highly complex, as each graft must be placed at a specific depth and angle to ensure that grafts look natural.
The surgeon works carefully to create results that will blend seamlessly into the surrounding hair. Hair transplantation is a slow and meticulous process, so plan on spending an entire day with us for this process.
