Are your existing hair follicles damaged during an FUE procedure?

FUE is a method of harvesting hair follicles. It may cause damage to the hair follicles during the harvesting phase.

It's certainly possible but the extent to which is happens is really dependent on the doctor's experience. A doctor who has done many of these procedures should cause an extremely small amount of damage to pre-existing natural hairs.

In the hands of an experienced FUE Hair Restoration surgeon, grafts can be safely implanted in between your existing hair without issue. 

Minimizing damage is based on the skill of the hair transplant surgeon and surgical team. You will continue to lose hair in a weak recipient area depending on your degree and stability of current hair loss. Most skilled surgeons will only perform FUE twice from a donor area as there is scarring under the skin in the donor area.

A good surgeon can keep the recipient making instrument apart from the normal native hairs which he/she should be able to see when the recipient area sites are made.