When will FUE become standard hair transplant? When they perfect the technique wouldn't you assume they will be getting rid of the stip, as the fue undeniably in my opinion leaves a way better scar. I plan to get this transplant in 3 -5 years.

Each have their place. FUE will not overtake Strip for sometime, if at all - IMO

In Belgium and Holland, most likely the centre for HT in Europe there are lots of institutes that offer FUE now. Even the strip die hards clinics have widened their offer with FUE.
I would not be surprised if 50% or more of the procedures in Belgium and Holland are now done by FUE.

In our institutes we feel FUE should always be the standard method of choice. Strip is not obsolete, it can always play a small role for those who want max out the donor area in which case both methods are needed.

Bverotti, I have to disagree with your entire post.

I have to especially quesiton the 50% prevelence of FUE you cited. How did you arrive at this unbelievable number?

If this number is accurate, where are the results then? If even 5% of the neatherlands and belgium were FUE, I'd imagine this site would have been swampped with hundreds of, if not thousands, of premeire FUE results.

The truth is, FUE is a long long away from challenging strip. While it does have it's place and it does have a very bright future, it's use is by and large limited as an "adjunct procedure" especially in cases of very limited hairloss. And rightfully so.

Jupiter,
Until you see massive numbers of photos posted on this site CLEARLY demonstrating the consistent success of FUE megasessions, you and all potential HT patients, should steer clear of so called "FUE only" hair transplant clinics. To date not one has produced the kind of consistent "blow your hair back" results per capita as the top strip clinics and they have all had plenty of time to do so.

Look past the hype.

Dr. Feller,
How did I come up with my assumption ?

Well, in Holland there is a hair forum, more or less like this one. My guestimate is that about 50% from all the experience reports are about FUE, a lot of them comming from our institute in fact.

Besides that almost all institutes that previously only did strip work are now also into FUE. Some are actually already pushing the 1500-2000 grafts a day.
In fact, it is getting hard to find an institute around here that is not doing FUE.

I hope this answers your question.

BTW, Laser A., a huge hair transplant center (which produced my oversized smiley) has even bought the ex Gho clinic. They took all the staff and 'bought' themselves a lot of FUE expierence this way ...

Wheres this forum at .Whats the name Bverotti.
I want to see a bunch of grown out fue cases
Thanks

Hey Bverotti I see your online .
Could you please point me to the forums with all the mega fue pictures.

Oh yes,
the website is www.haarweb.nl
You wont find a lot of pics though.
have fun

There are still a lot of questions on the graft survival of FUE procedures. Since they are "relatively" new, no long term studies have been done.

The other concern is the number of grafts possible during any one session, the nubers are increasing but there is an upper limit. The scaring left from this type of surgery does limit the total number of grafts that can be harvested. Not to mention the cost tends to be twice as much or more than the strip method. For smaller surgeries it makes perfect sense.

I don't see it taking over as the standard.

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Originally posted by The Goz:
There are still a lot of questions on the graft survival of FUE procedures. Since they are "relatively" new, no long term studies have been done.

The other concern is the number of grafts possible during any one session, the nubers are increasing but there is an upper limit. The scaring left from this type of surgery does limit the total number of grafts that can be harvested. Not to mention the cost tends to be twice as much or more than the strip method. For smaller surgeries it makes perfect sense.

I don't see it taking over as the standard.

Well, FUE is fairly new if you mean that it has become popular. I had my first megasession back in 2003.
Before that the only person to perform FUE was dr. Woods, I believe he has been doing FUE for over 15 years now.

Total number of grafts is something that evolves.
Strip surgery did not start out with 3000 grafts, maybe the first years 500-1000 grafts where the norm. It takes time and experience to build up confidence and new technique/routines to achieve higher goals.
Same goes for FUE. No doc will start his FUE carreer with 1000 grafts in a single day.
We have used the same aproach in our clinic, going from small sessions back in 2004 to mega session nowadays. Time will tell if we will ever produce giga sessions, who knows ?

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You wont find a lot of pics though

Kind of figured that lol

In my opinion Fue and megga Fue is quite different. It will be interesting to see the results of these procedures down the road.As far as grafts surviving. Mine are still growing strong over 5 years later.

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Originally posted by PLEASE GROW PLEASE:

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You wont find a lot of pics though

Kind of figured that lol

LOL yeah me 2.

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In my opinion Fue and megga Fue is quite different

So far ,very true. Hopefully this will change.
I can see it happening ,but right now there are alot of hit and miss cases of megafue. Alot more consistency with smaller session. There are valid reason for this at this time

I agree,
FUE and mega FUE requires different skills and experience level and highly trained staff.

Same for strip sessions and mega or giga strip sessions, you need special routines and experience and highly trained staff.