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Lunchtime procedure? This is a surgery. A very delicate, lengthy process. An FUE procedure with roughly 2,000 grafts takes 8-12 hours for me to perform. How much area you can cover depends on your donor zone and donor density.
The time depends on the number of grafts implanted. Every step of FUE procedure is done one by one but normally it takes around 7-8 hours.
Plan on a full day for over 1000 grafts.You start in the morning and you end around lunch time.The area of coverage depend on the number of grafts.
From our team, for about 3000 grafts, we take 9-10 hours. A typical surgery starts at 08:30 and ends at around 18:00.
Definitely not a lunch time procedure!FUE is very meticulous and with our current technology it may take 6-10 hours for an average procedure of 1500-2000 grafts. The coverage you get with a FUE procedure has to do with the characteristics of your donor hair, and number of grafts that you need to discuss with your hair transplant surgeon.
Let's start off my asking the question differently, How long would 2000 graft FUE take to perform from the beginning to the end of the procedure? We perform two types of FUE procedures. (1) The manual FUE which we have been doing since the mid-1990s and this is the fastest procedure where 2000 grafts would take a total of about 5 hours. IF we use our ARTAS robot, it increases the time by about 3 hours to 8 hours, on average, This requires that there are no previous FUE procedures.
The biggest challenge I find for patients is their haircut after an FUE procedure. We shave an area on the back of the scalp and thus patients have a funny looking haircut for about 10 days or so. In the first few days there is scabbing on the grafts as well which is noticeable. So yes, p...
As this is a cosmetic procedure,I am not aware of any insurance companies that will cover the costs of the procedure. We have tried at our clinic and have had no luck with the insurance companies.
Thanks for the question. There is no specific age for a hair transplantation. But people under the age group of 18 years to 80 years usually options for hair transplantation as the symptoms of balding and spot balding occur within this span of life. I wish you all the best.
Thank you for your question. In experienced hands, the craft success rate is 95%, Make sure you find an experienced surgeon. Best wishes.
I don't have my patients apply anything to the scalp after their FUE procedure. I have them wash 2x a day with baby shampoo. Light exercise is ok after about a week. I recommend patients not to smoke as it interrupts wound healing and lowers oxygenation in the tissue to grafts that already h...
Usually patients feel completely normal within 1-2 days. They look normal after 1-2 weeks depending on their haircut and hair style and how long they wear their hair. You should start seeing hair growth within the first 6 months and the results will continue to improve out to 1 year.
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