Regular Member oms Posted March 25, 2003 Regular Member Share Posted March 25, 2003 I was just wondering whether someone could clear this up for me, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member oms Posted March 25, 2003 Author Regular Member Share Posted March 25, 2003 I was just wondering whether someone could clear this up for me, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vocor1 Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 Not always. If you are using a doctor who only does Follicular Unit Transplants, then grafts and FUs are synomymous. If you are going to a hair mill or chop shop that still uses minigrafts and micrografts, then FUs is not equal to grafts. In the "chop shop" case, then each graft may contain several to many FUs. So an FU is a natural grouping of hairs on your scalp -- usually 1-4 hairs. A graft is a donor piece being moved to a new location. Hopefully, in your case, Graft = FU. vocor1 Knowledge is Power If the worst question is the one never asked, then the worst answer is the one never shared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Member arfy Posted March 25, 2003 Senior Member Share Posted March 25, 2003 To elaborate on what Vocor said... A hair transplant is really just a specific type of skin grafting. It's moving bits of skin from the back to the front. The skin just happens to contain hair follicles. Hair transplant doctors started out by taking big pencil eraser-size pieces of scalp from the back, and moving them to the front, where there wasn't any hair. Then after about 30 years of crummy-looking results, some doctors with brains and integrity finally came along, and figured out that a hair transplant would look better by making the grafts smaller, and moving as little scalp tissue as possible (the Follicular Unit graft, trimmed under a microscope). These ethical doctors realized it was important to make the transplant look natural, and not just settle for having the hair grafts "survive". Up until then it was just big plugs and flaps, and Minigrafts (which are just smaller plugs, really.) So a graft is really a generic name for any little piece of tissue that gets moved from point A to point B. It could be any size and any quality, and be harvested in a number of different ways. As you may realize, though, it is the subtle things that make all the difference in the world, when it comes to hair transplants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member oms Posted March 25, 2003 Author Regular Member Share Posted March 25, 2003 thanks guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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