Is FUE Hair Transplant painful? Is it safe? Anesthesia?

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How much pain can a person expect with the FUE hair transplant? Will it be more painful than just plucking hairs out of their head? What does it feel like when they are transplanted? What kind of anesthesia is used (if any at all)? How safe is it?

Emrah Cinik, MD · Answer

During the FUE operation you can feel pain during the local anesthesia injections until the donor and recipient area gets numb. after the operation first 1-2 day little bit of pain is normal. You can take painkillers.

Ozge Ergun, MD · Answer

First of all, thank you for your question.Generally, FUE hair transplant surgery is not a painful procedure. Once local anesthesia is done, you will not feel any discomfort or pain. During a FUE transplant surgery, pain is usually limited to injection of local anesthesia. 
Maybe you can feel the pain while local injection, but after that, you will not feel any pain. After the procedure, you may feel discomfort for 1 - 2 days but this managable pain is avoidable with pain killers.

Jae Pak, MD · Answer

FUE is surgery.  It is not plucking hairs from your head.  Doctors drill or core our a part of your scalp.  Fortunately doctors will give you local anesthesia so it will not be painful.  Surgery itself is pain free.  It is a safe procedure.  However, there was a death around 2006 from a hair transplant surgery when a technician did the surgery and the patient died from an overdose.  Make sure a doctor does your surgery.  This is an issue when doctors let their techs do the FUE.

Arslan Musbeh, MD · Answer

The FUE hair Transplant is a prodecure without  suture so no scar and Painless.
The FUE is done under a local anesthesia: the first couple of needles is Painful especially on the back side up of the neck and it will takes 5 mins at most.
After the surgery, we provide a painkiller and you wont have any pain.
During the healing phase, you will have the itchiness and stretching feeling on the donor area and you will feel the recipient area numb. It will last at most 2-3 weeks after the surgery. We recommend a special ointment for that.

Satinder Singh, MBBS, DNB · Answer

FUE hair transplant is generally not a painful procedure. One may feel the pain while injecting local, but once local anesthesia is done patient does not feel any pain or discomfort. After the procedure pain is generally not an issue but there may be some discomfort for initial 1 to 2 days for which generally pain killers provided. Feeling of numbness is experienced by the patients which goes away with time.

Ilker Apaydin, MD · Answer

This type of procedure has been around for about 60 years, but the techniques and methods have continued to improve as technology has advanced. These improvements have allowed for the procedure to become less painful and less invasive for patients. It is important to remember that it is a surgery, so there will be some minor discomfort afterwards. A local anesthetic will be given prior to the procedure and once the anesthetic starts to numb the skin, it should eliminate the patient from feeling anything throughout the procedure.Some patients have said that they felt a minor pulling or tugging feeling during the procedure, but the anesthetic makes it so you will not feel any severe pain. Most patients are usually very surprised at the ease of the procedure and appreciate that there is only minor pain associated with it.

Parsa Mohebi, MD, FISHRS · Answer

Pain during a FUE transplant should be limited to the injection of local anesthesia.  We apply local after giving the patients sedation so most people don't even remember the injections.  After FUE transplant pain or tightness are very unlikely.  We generally provide pain killers but most patients don't use them at all.

Is FUE Hair Transplant painful? Is it safe? Anesthesia?

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