Great (& hilarious) post scar5. I can understand why you think clinics push FUT over FUE.

As you said:
I know you were being sarcastic but I think all of those reasons are legitimate ones for clinics. I get your point though that some clinics may push strip for their own interests rather than the patients.

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Strip is certainly the best option for most but the guys with no significant loss in their family history, or the ones that have exceptional donor density or even the ones who are not as concerned about the crown may be best served by FUE.

I know much has been said about the numbers available by FUE but I know for a fact there's two doctors out there who have done 10,000+ FUE over multiple procedures for many patients (one is IAHRS approved, the other guy is on some the ISHRS and the ESHRS(? think that's the European one)). Both docs are in Europe where everyone wants FUE. I've seen a video of one guy with 10,700 FUE with his hair buzzed to a 1 and it is immaculate but then again he clearly had exemplary physiology to heal that well. He was a norwood 6 too and had very dense donor.

Strip probably still shades it for most patients but I think Acell is helping to close the gap. It certainly appears SMG is getting really robust growth with it.

So you can predict hairloss based on family history?
Certainly?

Just sayin..

FUE has issues with robust graft survival and careless extraction.

I agree that strip gives you profound and satisfying short-term returns.

I would be very interested in knowing who these 2 doctors are, as I'm considering FUE myself.

The vast majority of us have nothing like that number available by FUE.

I absolutely agree although I truly wish we all could potentially harvest that much from our donor zones. And it is very important for patients to remember that we are all different and the reality is that very VERY few individuals can harvest those upper end numbers.

In addition, what appears to be the "safe zone" in our younger adult years can and will change as we age. One will never know for sure until the future how much of the harvest was in fact terminal hair when the limits are pushed that high.

Time tells all things...

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Excellent points Gillenator . . . I think time mega session FUEs garner way too much hype and time will tell whether these procedures are successful