Dr Devroye - HTS Clinic - Long hair FUT

[Dr. Jean Devroye]

After seeing the beautiful results of long hair FUT procedures obtained by my Brazilian colleagues – such as Dr Marcello Pitchon, Dr Ricardo Lemoset, Dr Clerisvaldo Almeida Souza – during a recent meeting in Brazil, I also decided to start performing long hair FUT procedures.

 

It consists in transplanting follicular units of which hair is 4 to 5 cm long.

 

This is an amazing technique that immediately shows the final result. This does not stop the extemporaneous result from deteriorating in the upcoming months as the grafted hair can fall before growing back. The main advantage is the possibility to see the result immediately, and thus to manage better the hair distribution. You must indeed understand that the difficulty for hair surgeons is often to foresee and thus to manage optimally the graft distribution. The grafts contain more or less hair and their distribution can be different according to other factors, such as colour, diameter and hair thickness.

 

The transplant of long hair essentially takes place through the FUT technique. Some FUE trials are performed with punches that have a slit. Dr Boaventura has recently submitted an article in this regard. I am right on track to shortly offer for sale modified punches that will indeed enable to perform long hair FUE with very little aggressive hybrid punches. This will probably be designed for minor hair transplants, but this will enable to perform FUE procedures absolutely undetectable.

 

What struck me with the Brazilian examples – and I could notice that this was also the case for my patient – is the extraordinary healing.

 

The postoperative pictures were taken the day after the patient’s surgery and look more like a situation after one week.

 

2788 FUE grafts, 5166 hairs

1h: 835 – 2h: 1577 – 3h: 327 – 4h: 49

 

In short, that is a very efficient technique that I now perform very often.