Very Small Sessions/ FUE

[Spanker]

Anyone know of or how it would go about to do very small FUE sessions....like "maintenance" sessions??

 

I have a little bit of thinning at the hairline and some temporal recession/thinning. Most people would not consider a transplant where I am but I am kicking around the idea of doing small sessions and trying to "keep up" instead of waiting til I need 3000 grafts. (if I ever do)

 

Sure it would be under a 1000....but prolly like 6-8 hundred

 

I would also like to do non-shaved....

 

I know some doctors only do one proceedure a day....but would a doctor block a day for such a small session?

 

Any thoughts?

[Tom60]

i am sure you will be able to find a doctor that would be up to do it. It may cost a bit though.

 

600 grafts...you just may want to try and rogaine it or something, save yourself some money.

 

but anyways, I am sure some doctor would hook you up.

[hairthere]

I just had Dr. Feller do 400 grafts to reconstruct my temple points. He did an awesome job!

[RCWest]

The only problem with FUE is you pretty much HAVE to shave to get the cutter over the graft. You won't necessarily have to shave the recipient area though.

[mattj]

Yes, shaving the donor is necessary and most doctors will want to shave the recipient zone, too, to clear the way so to speak. 600-800 grafts will be difficult to hide post-op. It's not even that small of a procedure as far as FUE goes.

 

What you want is certainly possible and not even unusual, really. Be advised though that people often underestimate the number of grafts that they'll need for their goal.

[scar5]

The original FUE doc only does that many in a day, max. Others have a 'minimum' charge. I've seen Harris (Denver?Rockies?) patients with FUE extracted in parallel bands within fully grown hair in the donor, so that no extraction is evident and with the kind of procedure you're looking at -assuming you have NW2 (or NW2 to3)hair on top, I cant see why you can't comb over the recipient bits for six months. Shockloss is always a worry short term, another reason to go big as possible.

[RCWest]

Here's an additional question: even though FUE grafts are cleanly cut perfectly round grafts, are they trimmed additionally to make them small as possible?