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Progression of Hair Growth Compared to
Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) & Strip Transplant

We would like to explain the difference in the progression of hair growth in comparison to the other techniques:

There are three different ways hair growth may occur after implantation:

The first way is when they continue to grow directly after implantation. This happens to the majority of implanted hairs.

The second way is when the hairs fall out quickly after implantation, after which they grow back. Since we are not implanting the whole hair follicle, the re-growth can sometimes take more than four months.

The last but not least way is that some parts of the hair will remain in the hair follicle and do not fall out. These hairs are visible and are 2 to 3 mm. in length. The hair follicle parts of these hairs have to develop a new hair follicle again and then push out the remaining hair.

Remaining hairs in the recipient area (blue arrows).
Newly growing hairs (green arrows).

There are rarely cases in which spots are visible due to having a lower hair density than the surrounding areas. The overall density increases after four months of growth.

As you probably already know, a follicular unit consists of two to three hairs. Since we are not implanting the whole hair follicle, you can image that there are sometimes hair-follicles in the transplanted follicular unit which contain insufficient tissue to allow re-growth, although the parts which remain in the donor area will always regenerate. However, the hair parts which remain in the hair follicle will not harm the remaining hair follicles in the follicular unit and eventually they will fall out.

Dr. Jennifer Martinick, MBBS, of Perth, Australia has conducted scientific research to study the long-term growth characteristics of hair follicles with horizontal sectioning. She revealed that these partial hair follicles can even regenerate after more than 12 months and she came to the conclusion that it is necessary to conduct hair count studies for 18 months instead of the traditional six months done in the past. She received the Platinum Follicle Award for this study during the ISHRS meeting in New York in October of 2003.

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The above discussion on Follicular Multiplication is provided by Gho Clinic.
Readers are advised to do thorough research before choosing any doctor for
hair transplant procedures.