Combo technique:

We started doing the Combo technique in 2009 and called it FLUTE technique then. It was under the mistaken surmise that a combination technique will give more grafts. Many doctors...

Does FUE give lower yield than a strip surgery?

FUT surgeons have always since the past one decade put forth their vociferous points of view about poor yield. If you state a lie a thousand times, it takes control...

What is the Golden harvest?

Golden Harvest refers to Anagen Selective Harvest. Anagen Selective FUE grows better hair. The hair in FUT which are in regression phases have a high chance of going into dormancy...

What are the indications for FUE?

All patients who are candidates for FUT are candidates for FUE. However, FUE has widened the horizon of surgical hair restoration by allowing the surgeon to look beyond the traditional...

What are the complications of hair transplant as a whole that may defame/bring disrepute to the procedure in general with catastrophic outcome?

Young surgeons falling to propaganda of companies selling their wares. There is a common misconception that some machines do all the work which is absolutely unfounded and spread by unethical...

What are the principles of the various steps in the procedure?

FUE is the harvesting of follicular units using refined miniscule punches which may range in size from 0.65-0.85 mm in internal diameter. The system used may be motorised or robotic....

What are the misconceptions about the FUE technique that may be misrepresented by those indulging in propaganda?

There is no scar. (scar tissue is present after every surgical technique.) FUE gives better density (there is no difference in density in either technique if you have selected your...

How is FUE different from FUT – both technically and conceptually?

FUT is currently the gold standard of surgical hair restoration. FUE is different from it only in the manner of harvesting. In the former, as strip of skin as wide...

Why is it that FUE is not reproducible in the hands of many surgeons, where as in the hands of a dedicated surgeon the procedure can be executed to such a level of finesse & excellence that rapid FUE harvest and other unique features can be a part of the procedure? Is it purely due to lack of training or something else?

FUE has a long learning curve longer than that of the traditional FUT procedure. FUE requires long hours of patient learning under high magnification. Once you take up FUE as...

Does FUT provide a greater number of donor grafts than FUE?

No It does not! If we consider the fact that we can harvest up to 40% of the donor scalp over 2-3 sessions using FUE technique, a strip area which...

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