Hair transplant procedures guide: find out all you need to know about any surgical hair transplant procedure

In the old days (think 1980s), there was no mistaking who had a hair transplant. The telltale corn row, doll hair, pluggy-looking hair transplants of yesteryear were -- believe it or not -- once considered state-of-the-art. But that was well before the evolution of hair transplantation. Over the last 20 years, hair restoration techniques have evolved considerably. These techniques have become so refined and results so natural-looking that most people cannot tell if someone has even had a hair transplant.

With the rise of the internet and globalization, the world is literally at our fingertips. Not only can we easily cross borders for leisure travel and tourism, it is possible to visit nearly any country to conduct business or to purchase goods and services.

We conclude our three part series, “Strip Harvesting versus FUE” in discussing a number of remaining issues between the two procedures.

We continue our comparison of the hair restoration surgical procedures of Strip Harvesting versus FUE hair transplants.

Years ago, experts started advocating a new way of performing hair transplant surgeries. Instead of the traditional strip harvesting– meaning that doctors would take strips of hair-bearing tissue from part of the head and place them elsewhere, the experts started advocating FUE hair transplants. 

Improvements in instrument technology and technique have now made follicular unit extraction (FUE) a procedure competitive with strip harvesting for obtaining donor hair for transplantation.

Follicular unit extraction is one of the techniques for obtaining donor hair for hair transplantation. 

New findings from research help explain why hair loss happens (ie. specific gene/hormone carried by individual).

Although hair transplantation alone is by far the most common method of hair restoration utilized in modern times, excision of bald scalp after either tissue expansion or scalp extension can play a very useful and important role in hair restoration as well.

Skin flap surgery is a method of moving a "flap" of skin from one area of the body to another. Scalp flap surgery has an important but limited role in hair restoration.