What is Fue Hair Transplantation?
Today, hair transplantation operation is quite advanced. One of these developing techniques is hair transplantation with Sapphire Fue. Fue hair transplantation, which is performed with a sapphire-tipped medical instrument (pen), enables smaller micro-channels to be opened by using a sapphire tip in the application of opening the channels. Therefore, the crusting that occurs after the operation is very minimal. Therefore, the healing process in hair transplantation using the sapphire fue technique also results quickly.
The FUE method is one of the most used methods by hair transplant specialists. Hair transplant specialists first perform hair analysis of patients who apply for hair transplant. Thus, the structure and quality of the hair, the density of the shedding, and the quality of the hair follicles in the donor area from which the hair will be taken are determined. Afterwards, if it is decided that the patient is suitable for the FUE method, which is the abbreviation of Follicular Unit Extraction, the procedure is started. The most important advantage of the Sapphire FUE method is that the patient's hair looks natural after the procedure.
Painless and Painless Sapphire Fue Hair Transplantation
If the person who will have a sedated hair transplant operation wants direct general anesthesia, it is a hair transplant application performed by the anesthesiologist by giving sedation. Local anesthesia is applied to people who will only have the head area anesthetized. In both cases, no pain is felt at all. However, the patient experiences an extremely comfortable, painless hair transplant treatment. In general, hair transplantation is not a painful and painful procedure. However, the patients' hesitant behavior in this regard has brought with it more advanced comfort in hair transplantation.
How is Sapphire FUE Hair Transplant done?
First of all, hair transplant specialists determine the front hairline of the patients who apply with the complaint of hair loss in order to achieve a natural appearance after the procedure. The most important reason for this is that the front hairline, which starts from the very front or from the very back, distracts the patient from naturalness. In addition, having the front hairline in a straight line is not a preferred situation in terms of naturalness. After determining the front hairline, the open area where hair loss and loss is intense is determined.
The FUE technique consists of four stages. First of all, the donor area where the hair follicles will be collected is shaved and the work starts. The reason for this is to facilitate the removal of hair follicles with the help of micromotor. After this stage, the area where the hair follicles will be collected is anesthetized with local anesthetic drugs and the second stage is started. During the second stage, the hair follicles are collected from the nape area one by one using the micromotor method. The most important reason for choosing the nape area as a donor area at this stage is that the hair in this area is more resistant to shedding. It takes an average of two hours to collect hair follicles.
After the acquisition of healthy hair follicles is completed, it is very important to preserve these hair follicles without damage. For this reason, the collected healthy hair follicles are placed in a special solution. Afterwards, the area to be planted is anesthetized with local anesthesia. After that, one of the most important stages of the process, the channel opening stage, is passed. After the roots are collected, holes called canals are opened in the area to be transferred with the help of special tools with steel tips, and the collected hair follicles are transferred to the holes one by one. Sapphire FUE hair transplantation process is completed in an average of 7-8 hours. All these are included in the answers to the question of how hair transplantation is done.
Removing Hair Roots from the Donor Area
In general, in hair transplantation, healthy hair follicles taken from the donor area are transferred to the area to be transplanted. The procedure performed under anesthesia is taken from the donor area with a device called a micro motor and transferred with the help of a sapphire tipped medical pen. In this way, both more hair follicles are transplanted and the angle of the transplanted hair grafts is adjusted with zero error.
To Whom Can Sapphire FUE Method Be Applied?
Sapphire FUE can be applied to anyone over the age of 18. Anyone who has hair loss and hair loss problems is suitable for hair transplantation. However, if patients have an additional skin disease, the procedure may not yield the expected result. Patients with any additional disease are first directed to the relevant area. Sapphire FUE method is a widely used method in men, but it can also be used in women who have hair loss problems.
FUE Hair Transplant Advantages
The FUE method is the latest technique used since 2004. Compared to the old method, it is a much more comfortable operation for both the patient and the physician. Since it is a technique that is open to technological developments, it benefits from the blessings of technology more and more every day. Thanks to the motor and tips used, the operation time is much shorter than the FUT technique.
Today, many hair transplant specialists now prefer the motorized system to save time. The FUE method is the latest technique used since 2004. Thanks to the Sapphire Fue hair transplantation motor, grafts can be taken at more frequent intervals, and when the same amount of field scanning is compared, more grafts can be removed from the field taken with the motor. Another advantage of the motor used in Sapphire Fue hair transplantation is that the rate of fragmentation of grafts with multiple roots, namely 2-3 and 4 roots, is less, in other words, the success of maintaining the integrity of the follicular unit is higher. For these reasons, it can be said that hair transplantation has become a more comfortable operation thanks to the motor used in Sapphire Fue hair transplantation. Since no incision is made, the patient is much more likely to be convinced and feel comfortable during the operation. There is no need to spend extra time to decompose the roots. Since there is no stitching, only 3 days of dressing is sufficient in the FUE technique, instead of dressing times that take approximately 15 days. 2500-3000 grafts (average 6000-6500 hairs) can be transplanted in a single session.
FUE hair transplantation and DHI Plus Gold techniques do not leave any traces, unlike the FUT technique. Sapphire FUE hair transplantation is suitable for multiple sessions and to take a large number of grafts. In fiber FUE hair transplantation, 85% of the patients are closed with a single session. A second session may be required for only 15% of patients. Fiber FUE hair transplant operation time is shorter (average 5 hours). No extra time is required for the separation of the grafts. Sapphire is clean and free of residues taken in the FUE technique, so it is possible to open smaller channels. In this way, no traces are left in the planting area. The patient is discharged without a bandage on his head and wearing a daily hat. The patient is able to do office work the next day. It is also possible for the patient to return to work immediately after the first wash (approximately 36 hours later). This period is much longer in the FUT technique. The FUE method, which was preferred by very few physicians at the beginning, has become very common among physicians today and has shown that it is a more reliable method.
What are the Advantages of FUE Hair Transplantation?
FUE hair transplantation is one of the methods with a high success rate that is widely used in the world. Rapid developments in the field of technology cause the FUE method to develop gradually. For example, FUE technique, in which channels are opened with a tip made of a valuable substance called sapphire instead of steel tips, allows much smaller channels to be opened compared to the classical technique. In addition, during FUE, hair is genetically taken from the area where shedding is least.
Therefore, the chance of success after hair transplantation is very high. In addition, one of the most important advantages of the procedure is that the channels where the hair transplant is performed are quite small. This accelerates the healing process after the procedure. In addition, the opening of very small channels in the FUE technique allows more hair follicles to be transferred. In this way, the FUE method can be applied easily in people with advanced hair loss problems.
Since the procedure does not require stitches, the recovery process after the procedure is also faster. Since the success rate of the FUE procedure is high, a single session is usually sufficient. If the patient has an advanced hair loss problem, a second session may be required, albeit rarely. Patients can return to work the day after the procedure.
How Many Hours Does Fue Hair Transplantation Take?
Hair transplantation operation is not a very long operation, especially when the sapphire tip hair transplantation technique is used. Generally, the decision stage of the patient affects the duration of hair transplantation. After deciding on hair transplantation, the physician should decide whether the patient is suitable for hair transplantation in the first examination. In addition, the causes of hair loss are investigated and it is examined whether it is due to any reason.
Because in order to get the desired successful result, hair loss should not continue after the hair transplantation process is performed. It is important how healthy the hair taken from the donor area is. Thus, all examinations are performed before the hair transplant operation is performed, and the hair transplant operation is performed.
What Should Be Done After Hair Transplantation?
The first 3 days after the hair transplant operation is important for the patient. During this period, the patient should not touch his head with water and should not wash his hair. The practicing physician probably calls the patient for dressing after 2 days and changes the dressing.
Again, the doctor has recommendations and the patient has to pay attention to them. In the first 3 days, he should not go out as much as possible, if it is very necessary, he should go out wearing a hat that does not sweat. Because the risk of infection is high in the first 3 days, the patient should be meticulous in this regard.