There are still a lot of questions on the graft survival of FUE procedures. Since they are "relatively" new, no long term studies have been done.

The other concern is the number of grafts possible during any one session, the nubers are increasing but there is an upper limit. The scaring left from this type of surgery does limit the total number of grafts that can be harvested. Not to mention the cost tends to be twice as much or more than the strip method. For smaller surgeries it makes perfect sense.

I don't see it taking over as the standard.

Well, FUE is fairly new if you mean that it has become popular. I had my first megasession back in 2003.
Before that the only person to perform FUE was dr. Woods, I believe he has been doing FUE for over 15 years now.

Total number of grafts is something that evolves.
Strip surgery did not start out with 3000 grafts, maybe the first years 500-1000 grafts where the norm. It takes time and experience to build up confidence and new technique/routines to achieve higher goals.
Same goes for FUE. No doc will start his FUE carreer with 1000 grafts in a single day.
We have used the same aproach in our clinic, going from small sessions back in 2004 to mega session nowadays. Time will tell if we will ever produce giga sessions, who knows ?

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Kind of figured that lol

In my opinion Fue and megga Fue is quite different. It will be interesting to see the results of these procedures down the road.As far as grafts surviving. Mine are still growing strong over 5 years later.

LOL yeah me 2.

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So far ,very true. Hopefully this will change.
I can see it happening ,but right now there are alot of hit and miss cases of megafue. Alot more consistency with smaller session. There are valid reason for this at this time

I agree,
FUE and mega FUE requires different skills and experience level and highly trained staff.

Same for strip sessions and mega or giga strip sessions, you need special routines and experience and highly trained staff.

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