The most important difference between Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) and the Strip Method is the technique used for extracting the hair follicular units. With FUE, each individual hair follicle is individually extracted from any part of the body using a specialized punch with less than 1mm in diameter. The main advantage of this technique is that follicular units which means that we do not need to use stitches or a scalp.

A punch of under 1mnn diameter is placed in the skin to the depth of the hair's root allowing Dr Choudhuri and Dr Jabbar to remove the hair from the skin without causing damage.

This new non-invasive technique is offered by very few hair transplantation clinics in Europe because FUE requires special know-how and correct practice from the medical team in order to complete this procedure in a way to produce results. The hair perfect clinic is amongst the most experienced teams in the world and has been mastering this new technique from the very beginning.

FUE, enables the surgical team to offer small Hair Transplant sessions of 500 grafts especially to patients who are in initial stages of hair loss and might need to cover only their hairline or temporal area to a full mega session resulting a in a full head of hair, It is also the ideal technique for patients who want to shave their heads since it leaves no visible scarring in the donor area.

The photos below will help you to understand better the FUE technique

In this photo you can see the sites that have just been created by using a 0.75mm punch. You can also see the sites that have been punched the previous day, 20 hours after surgery. The healing of these sites is amazing. After a few days it will extremely difficult to notice that the patient has undergone hair extraction from this area.

In this photo you can see the harvested follicular units with 0.75 mm punch. Notice the follicular units are intact with a very low transection rate and with the proper amount of sebaceous material to protect the grafts and generate new arrector pili muscles and oil glands after being moved to the recipient site-area.

These follicular units have been harvested with same punch size as above. They are all single Follicular Units and they are to be placed on the hairline where we only use singles. They are intact with all the necessary tissue to give them an excellent growth in a few months.

In this photo you can see a cross-section of the scalp after removing a follicular unit via FUE. Notice that the neighbouring follicular units have remained intact.

The main advantages in brief of the FUE Technique are:

• Expansion of Donor area
• Ideal for moustache, eyelash or eyebrow replacement
• Ideal for small sessions and for patients in initial stages
• Ideal for patients who wish to shave their heads
• Less invasive - with no visible scarring in the donor area

Scars caused by follicular unit extraction are less visible than scars caused by other techniques. Visibility of scars also depends on the patient’s hair length and the experience of the physician.