The Mediocrity of Neograft Hair Transplantation – How SFET has set the standard.

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For men and women suffering from hair loss, the physical toll of its impact is as equal, if not greater, as its emotional toll in confidence. However, with technological advances in today’s society with Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), people are able to not only restore their hair growth, but also grow back their confidence as well.

FUE is defined as a hair transplant technique in which a small round punch is used to extract follicular units (meaning groupings of 1, 2, 3, and 4 follicles)  from a patient’s bald resistant areas. These grafts are then transplanted into a patient’s balding areas.  The FUE extraction is also done so without the use of a scalpel, meaning the procedure will not require stitching and has no linear scar, making it a far more minimally invasive procedure.

Many plastic surgeons specializing in hair restoration use a machine called the NeoGraft. It is an automated hair transplant tool that assists doctors in performing hair restoration surgery using the FUE technique. How the Neograft works is that it uses pneumatic pressure and precision automated control to extract the hair follicles without damage and can be immediately transplanted to the selected area of the scalp.

Although it has gained some popularity, mainly due to the previous method of strip harvesting surgery which is far more painful, leaves scarring and insufficient results, the Neograft system provides very little evidence that it is superior to other techniques that have arose with more promising results.

One of the more advanced and state-of-the-art procedures is the Single Follicle Extraction and Transfer (SFET), which is a form of FUE and Body Hair Transplant (BHT). This revolutionary technique is a minimally invasive treatment that requires no scalpels, strip surgery or stitches.  Not only is the procedure famous for its rapid healing rates and better overall yield and growth of transplanted hair follicles on the scalp, but best of all, the procedure allows for the use of body hair.  By using this advanced and innovative method, it provides the number of transplantable hairs to increase, allowing a more successful re-growth and outcome for patients.  Furthermore, patients are able to recover in a more rapid amount of time and are able to return to a normal life immediately.

Clearly, BHT greatly differs from traditional hair transplants. Traditional transplants require redistribution of permanent hair from the back and sides of the head, limiting the donor supply to 5,000-7,000 hair follicles. For a patient who is significantly bald, this leaves only 1/10 of what has been lost to be replaced using this method. The results are often thin and requires the cutting of a slice of flesh from the back of the head, leaving a scar.  However, a patient who undergoes the SFET procedure will have no linear scarring, and hair can be safely removed from anywhere in the head, face and body and be successfully transferred to the area in need.

Compared to the Neograft, undergoing the more advanced BHT procedure using the SFET method potentially adds the entire body hair supply to the donor resource, enabling successful hair restoration to be far greater, especially for individuals suffering from severe baldness. Not only will the SFET method using BHT restore hair, and do so in a minimally invasive way, but it was also restore the much needed confidence which was once taken away due to baldness and mediocre techniques such as the Neograft.

As the most technologically advanced method procedure for the most successful hair restoration outcomes, it not only meets patient’s expectations, but also surpasses it.