Indications and Contraindications to FUE hair transplant.

Indications and Contraindications to FUE hair transplant.

Indications for FUE hair transplant

The method is shown in the following conditions:

• When the patient is not accepted by scar
• When orientation is a less invasive procedure
• In patients where the donor area is very dense not to allow the strip surgery
• In patients with thinning or limited in those who require small sessions, including patients with male pattern thinning of Norwood Class 3 with a small area of alopecia or summit
• For the treatment of limited areas, such as transplantation of the eyebrows, whiskers
• In the treatment of small areas of alopecia secondary to the resolution of dermatological scars arising
• from traditional strip surgery scars
• If subsequent to trauma or neurosurgical procedures.

Contraindications to transplant hair F.U.E.

Essentially contraindications to F.U.E. identify with:

• Inexperience in the conduct of technical
• Deficiencies or unable to provide the proper instruments of accession to the correct patient and informed consent Expectations
• Not meet the real possibility
• Inadequacy of the donor scar
• Orocesses that make problematic the adoption of the technique and patient

Preparation instrumental requirements

Patients candidates F.U.E. are initiated for the preparation of the donor. This is to shave the area where follicular units will be drawn up to achieve short hair from 1 to 1.5 mm. This area is infiltrated with local anesthetics in order to induce local analgesia subcutaneously.

For proper and efficient execution of the method is necessary to have a special binocular microscope with possibility of enlargement of the visual field from 6 to 10 times, so as to obtain optimum viewing. The use of specific punch from 0.6 to 1 mm in diameter, with manual or automatic, allows the extraction of follicular units.

As was previously mentioned, it is essential to establish the correct positioning of the punch when it penetrates the skin, so that it results in a certain angle of insertion between the instrument and the hair shaft. The importance of this phase is to limit or minimize the trans-dissection, which would compromise quality and vitality follicular unit.