I'm going to move to the new thread that Bill started, but I want to mention here and now that white dotting, or what some doctors wrongly call "depigmenting" most certainly CAN happen with punches smaller than 1mm in diameter. It's just that the CHANCES for obvious white dotting is DECREASED with the decreasing diameters.

FUE is NOT a scar-free surgery. It produces MORE scar tissue by an order of 10 BUT, the scarring is more distributed and therefore harder to detect.

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Feller Medical, PC
Great Neck, NY

Dr. Alan Feller is a member of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians

Providing Hair Transplants and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatments

Dr.Feller,

Are you saying FUE causes 10x as much scarring in the donor area as strip? If so, why?

The thing about hair surgery is that only local anesthetics are used and patients typically hear and see almost everything that is going on (which I believe is a good thing).

During most surgeries patient are put asleep and dont know a thing what happened to them ... and if you know some surgical assistants than you should talk to them, you wont believe your ears when you find out who is doing what during surgery.
One of my best friend is an ER surgycal assistant and sometimes I believe patients are bettter of not knowing what is going on.

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Consultant-co owner Prohairclinic (FUE only) in Belgium, Dr. De Reys.

sorry to hear about it.
So what was final out come of it?