What are the latest advances in hair transplant procedures?
One of the latest advances in hair transplantation includes a technique called follicular unit extraction, using a neograft device. Plastic surgeon Anthony Youn, MD, describes this new treatment option for those with hair loss.
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There's a device called the NeoGraft device, where you can actually take the hair follicles one by one, and then those hair follicles are then
reimplanted into the areas of your scalp where your hair is thin. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Hair transplant surgery has been around for a long time. And it kind of started with punch grafts, where we would take punches, several hairs at a time,
and implant that into the scalp. But the problem with that procedure was that people would look like they had literally doll's-type hair.
Well, the newest technique is called follicular unit extraction. And there's a device called the NeoGraft device, where
you can actually take the hair follicles one by one, and then those hair follicles are then reimplanted into the areas of your scalp
where your hair is thin. And this is different than the old style harvesting of the hair, where you literally have to cut a strip of scalp
out from typically the back of the scalp, and that would create a long scar. But by taking it follicle by follicle out of the scalp,
the scarring is very minimal, and you can use it a lot in people who are scar conscious, people who develop keloids, and that type of thing.
The problem with the traditional hair transplant surgery is that you would have to literally cut an actual segment of hair from the back of the head,
and this would create a long scar, which could have a couple of weeks recovery time with permanent scarring. The follicular unit extraction technique,
the one using NeoGraft, you take out follicle by follicle, and so the downtime is much less and the scarring is much less, as well.
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