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baldness, hair, hair transplant, hair grafting |
The Hairgrafting Technique
A great number of techniques are used in order to graft the hair taken from the nape of the neck. With traditional hairgrafting, people tried to obtain the biggest possible graft because they wanted some volume (thickness). Then, small holes were made with the help of a cylindrical scalpel ("punch") and clumps of scalp containing up to 18 pieces of hair were grafted into those holes. Of course, the technique was extremely painful and the result often looked like a "field of leeks". Thus, for years, hairgrafts had a very bad reputation, and often still do because some clinics are lagging behind and still use such techniques today.
With the emergence of micrografts and soft micrografting, techniques have considerably improved. This time, what was sought was to make the smallest possible graft so as to achieve a greater naturalness.
This is why the concept of grafting hair by hair on the front edge of the scalp was initiated. This technique which is time-consuming and costly for the clinic guarantees a result similar to nature.
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More density in one single session.
Even though micrografts had greatly improved the patients’ well-being and the aesthetic result, a major problem remained. The use of an electric scalpel temporarily impeded any blood irrigation of the hair scalp around the small graft, which made it impossible to implant another graft near the first one, because the lack of irrigation was likely to be fatal to both. The doctor was then compelled to spread out grafts made during the same session.
If the doctor practices Follicular Micrografting according to the rule book, he will no longer use an electric scalpel but a much sharper instrument enabling him to achieve a very dense implantation identical to the natural one. This is even more comfortable for the patient who no longer feels any pain (a local anesthetic is of course given to the patient beforehand) and, what is more, the blood irrigation is perfectly maintained. As a result, it is now possible to graft up to 30 follicular units per square centimeter on the receiving portion of the patient’s scalp !
This means that between 40 to 60 hair per square centimeter can be grafted in just one session, which would be totally impossible in a traditional session of mini or micro-grafting.
The additional 30 to 50 % hairs taken from the donor area of the patient are no trivial matter. Indeed, on some patients, up to 2500 grafts of follicular units (approximately 5500 hair) are implanted in a single session. An extraordinary density is thus achieved in just one operation whereas no fewer than SIX sessions (of around 300 micrografts each) of traditional micrografting would be required to achieve a similar result.
In addition to that, micrografts are always implanted one by one on the front edge of the scalp, following a slightly irregular line. This is a crucial condition to obtain a natural look. After the session, it will be impossible to tell the patient had surgery.
A very satisfactory result in just 6 months.
Follicular Micrografting is tremendously time-saving. More hair is grafted (up to 2500 follicular units per session that is to say over 5500 hair !) in fewer sessions.
Such considerable progress accounts for the choice of Follicular Micrografting in itself.
Single Sessions of up to 5000 micrografts .
With our large team of around 15 persons, we easily manage to have single sessions with around 12000 hair.
One must however bear in mind that on account of the patient's comfort linked to the duration of such large operation (between 8 to 10 hours are needed for 5000 micrografts), it is better not to go beyond sessions of 2500 micrografts.
Also, such large sessions are possible only if the patient has an adequate donor zone.
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