Is the Sapphire FUE hair transplant technique truly better? Learn about the technique, benefits, limitations, and how it compares with Bio-FUE hair transplant. Table of Contents Introduction What is Sapphire FUE Hair Transplant? What Is a Sapphire Blade in Hair Transplant? Sapphire FUE vs Bio-FUE: Which Technique Should You Choose What Are the Limitations of Sapphire Hair Transplant? Final Takeaway FAQs For individuals considering a hair transplant, the primary concern is usually the final result. Patients want to know if the procedure will produce natural-looking hair growth and reliable long-term results. However, during their research, many people come across a […]

You would have certainly heard a lot about FUE and FUT, especially if you are looking to get a hair transplant in the near future. While you will certainly find a lot of information about both, it would be prudent that you understand the intricacies of both, before deciding which one would be most suited for you. In this two part article, we will be looking at everything you need to know about follicular unit extraction and follicular unit transplantation. The Overview: The purpose of any hair restoration process would be to ensure that there is a full head of […]

In order to truly appreciate how far the domain of hair transplant has actually come, it is crucial to understand the history. It would be hard to believe that the very first hair transplant had been done in the late 1930s! As a matter of fact, in 1939 and then in 1942, Okuda and Tamura of Japan discovered that hair used from the back side of the head, could actually be utilised to handle the loss of pubic hair. Women in Japan had to take part in certain public bathing rituals and this often led to loss of pubic hair. […]

We received an email from Hari, who wanted to know more about hair transplantation techniques, since he was considering one for himself.    Here are important parts of the information that we shared with him: Hello Hari, Thank you for writing to us with your query and here is the information that you were looking for. In the simplest of terms, a hair transplant is a process in which, small section of hair, along with the follicles are carefully removed from the head and then transplanted into areas which have excessive hair loss or balding. The areas from which the […]

Doctor: Hair Transplant is the only successful, permanent & established treatment of baldness until the successful hair cloning is devised. At the same time, the method of implantation for even cloned grafts still may remain the same as hair transplant. Hair transplantation is a procedure in which hair from the back of the scalp is taken and transplanted in the bald area. Hair transplant has also changed its shapes from punch grafts to robotic hair transplant. But there are primarily only 2 ways in which the extraction is done the strip method(FUT) & FUE. Both techniques are very successful & […]

We receive numerous emails and phone calls each week, asking about which is better – FUE or FUT. Here is a concise description and comparison of both procedures: First of all, it is important to understand what each of the procedures is – while FUE stands for Follicular Unit Extraction, FUT stands for Follicular Unit Transplantation. In FUT, the technique utilised is the strip technique; wherein, a small strip of the scalp skin is removed from the back of the head and hair follicles from the same are harvested. However, in the FUE method, individual hair follicles are extracted directly […]