Hi all!

I was wondering if anyone has any pictures of FUE into a FUT scar with short hair.

I want to see if the scar can be covered well if you then decide to shave your head down to a 1 or 2?

Thanks!

I was curious about the same thing. I wear my hair relatively short and my hair is fine so FUE in the scar is definitely somehting I want to explore as well.

Hi,

Is it good to have FUE for around 2000 grafts transplant ?

Will it provide good result?

Thanks,
Sunny

I like the idea but not sure if results are consistent. Scars have less blood flow than other parts of scalp and blood flow is needed for growth. Therefore, yield is an issue with FUE into scar. I'm curious about micropigmentation or tattoo into scar to preserve precious donor hair for future loss.

Yeah I was wondering about the scar tissue accepting the new hair follicles. Does anyone have any pictures of this procedure?

The use of vascular endothelial growth factor could help with grafting scalp hairs into a strip scar by FUE. There's some examples out there of FUE into strip scars. A recent Dr. Feriduni scar repair comes to mind. Google it.

I googled this and at first it just came up with a number of oncology studies, however after probing a bit I was surprised to find many references to minoxidil. Maybe I'm missing something here but are you saying that simply using minoxidil in the scar tissue will help stimulate growth in that area?

No not minoxidil. Yes VEGF is involved in tumour growth. The malignant growth tricks the body to produce VEGF in and around the tumour so that it can develop blood vessels and grow. VEGF isn't actually bad. It's a growth factor that simply acts to help grow new blood vessels. It can be isolated, like PRP, and used in scar tissue to help revascularise it to an extent. Though it's probably not widely used yet it may have some very useful implications for trying to restore some blood flow to a strip scar when implanting FUE grafts thereby increasing the yield of the transplanted grafts in the scar. I believe Dr. Greco has been investigating VEGF along with other growth factors, PRP, Acell, etc.

Sorry for the confusion. I meant to google Dr. Feriduni FUE into scar repair. I've seen one fantastic case where it looks like the hair in the donor has been clipped down to a 1 or maybe a 2 and the scar is pretty much gone. Hope that helps.

I can now take my hair down to a grade 2/3 with no issues after my FUE 'ing into scar. The success of FUE into the scar is down to skill of FUE surgeon to a degree and then the scar and how vascular it is ;-)






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Blood flow to the scar tissue is the number one issue in my opinion for regrowth. That's why removing as much of it first with a revision is really essential in most cases that I have seen.

Take note that it does not necessarily take a high number of FUE grafts into the area to camouflauge the area. In Spexx case, the strip scar was not nearly as long ear-to-ear as we are used to seeing.

And at the same time, he really got a nice result. He also heals really well.

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