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Follicular Unit Transplant(FUT)

FUT (Follicular Unit Transplant) or Strip hair transplant is an old hair transplant method that restores hair loss. It initiated in the 90’s and it spread quickly worldwide. Lately, it is recorded a rapid withdrawn of the FUT –Strip hair transplant technique as the minimally invasive FUE hair transplant method expands and prevails.

This is happening because the results of the FUE hair transplant technique are very impressive. Moreover, FUE technique does not lead to the unpleasant consequences of FUT. Thanks to the advancement in FUE technique it is possible the extraction of a large number of hair follicles – a fact that during the previous years was solely capable with FUT hair transplant method. This fact was actually the main advantage of FUT – Strip technique.

Post-operative FUT – Strip Side Effects

The main disadvantage of FUT technique is the creation of permanent and dysmorphic linear scars in the donor area. Moreover, it is quite common the existence of a chronic hyperesthesia and/or painful neuromas located in the area where the scars are situated. At least 5 – 10% of those patients who have undergone an FUT-Strip hair transplant, have post-operatively reported chronic pains in the scar’s area. Additionally, in a 20 – 25% of the patients who have undergone an FUT-Strip hair transplant, is reported hyperesthesia in the scar’s area. Moreover, when multiple FUT-Strip hair transplants take place, the probability of complications’ existence is significantly increased.

An additional drawback of FUT technique is that due to the strip’s processing, the hair follicles are injured, thus the survival of the implanted follicles is limited. The creation of receptions intensifies the bleeding, the swelling and the pain post-operatively. Furthermore, the implantation of large-sized grafts leads to an unpleasant aesthetic result, the phenomenon known as doll-like effect.

Chronic pain

Hypoesthesia

Nowadays it is quite common patients who have undergone FUT-Strip hair transplant address specialised plastic surgeons so as to restore or eliminate the scars. It is essential to underline the fact that in Advanced Hair Clinics, a 35 – 40% of the patients that undergo an FUE hair transplant have experienced FUT hair transplant in the past. Those patients trust Advanced Hair Clinics so as to increase hair density or in order to create a natural-looking hairline. Furthermore a 15 – 20% of the FUT hair transplant cases ask for restoration of the dysmorphic and apparent scars. Consequently, the application of FUT – Strip method has reduced internationally.