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Hair Transplant Surgery to Hide a Scar

San Francisco Hairline Surgery Expert Explains

Hair transplant surgery has been a godsend to lots of men and women who want to replace hair lost to age, illness or health issues. Until recently, however, most surgeries resulted in unattractive scarring that was often difficult to hide. Fortunately, all that’s changed, and now hair restoration can be performed without the risk of excessive scarring thanks to a technique called FUE (follicular unit extraction). In some cases, FUE can even be used to hide an existing scar from a previous hair restoration surgery.
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Scar Revision with FUE Hair Restoration

Hiding Scars with Corrective Hair Surgery

Do you have large scar from previous hair transplant, burn, or accident? Does the scar in the back of your head bother you? Is the scar too large or too visible to shave your head? Do you want to shave your head close to the 1 level without having the scar visible?

There are two techniques to reduce the scar visibility. The two techniques are Trichophytic incision and FUE (Follicular Unit of Extraction). The Trichophytic incision involves shaving one edge of the skin down to 0.5 to1 mm. The shaved edge gets tucked underneath the non-shaved edge slightly when suturing the two edges together during wound closure, angling the root slightly to allow hair to grow through the scar, making the scar smaller. However, there will always be an area of no hair on the linear scar. Continue reading →

URFUT: The Modern Hair Transplant Procedure

Benefits of URFUT Men Hair Transplants

corrective hair surgery san jose Ultra Refined Follicular Unit of Transplant (URFUT) is the standard for modern hair transplantation where one refined but healthy hair graft is placed into each site. There will be no “pluggy” look, unlike the old hair transplant procedures like MUT (Multi Unit of Hair Transplantation), when 10-20 hair grafts were placed per incision site, leading to thick “doll like” hair growth. Continue reading →