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What You Need to Know About Hair Transplantation

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This chapter describes the technique of hair transplant surgery and touches upon some of the more contentious debates in the field. Two harvest techniques, follicular unit excision (FUE) and strip/elliptical harvest, are described, and the pros and cons of each are discussed briefly. The design of the surgery in the recipient area should mimic nature, creating the illusion of density by producing a grade of hair density using grafts with different numbers of hairs and different densities of recipient sites. The most significant limitation continues to be the available source of donor hair, although this supply can be somewhat expanded with the use of a combination of techniques. The latest developments in hair transplant surgery enable skilled and experienced surgeons to consistently produce undetectable results.

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  1. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, New York, NY, USA

    Robin Unger

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  1. Fredric Brandt Endowed, Professor of Dermatology, Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

    Antonella Tosti

  2. Dermatoncology & Trichology Clinic, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

    Daniel Asz-Sigall

  3. Department of Dermatology, Santa Casa da Misericordia, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

    Rodrigo Pirmez

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Unger, R. (2020). What You Need to Know About Hair Transplantation. In: Tosti, A., Asz-Sigall, D., Pirmez, R. (eds) Hair and Scalp Treatments. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21555-2_6

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