Hair Transplant 3-Hair Grafts

Types of 3-hair Grafts, a Guide to Safe Dissection in Hair Transplantation

Dr. John Cole

Reprinted with permission by Dr. John Cole
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John P. Cole, MD

There are three different types of three hair natural follicular groups. Understanding the anatomy of the individual groups is essential to the safe dissection of the grafts with minimal damage or trauma to the hairs, as well as, the insurance of the production of natural three hair follicular groups. Natural follicular groups consisting of three or more hairs assist with the grafting and coverage of the top of the scalp and internal frontal areas. They are a natural means of achieving cost effective coverage. Unnecessary fractionation of these natural three hair clusters an inefficient means of grafting unless one is concentrating on hair line coverage alone in Norwood Class Two or less patients with high calculated densities or a high number of hairs per follicular group.

Type one consist of three hairs lined up in a row. Type two consists of two hairs exiting from the same follicular canal with one hair exiting lateral to this in a separate follicular canal, and type three consists of three hairs exiting from the same follicular canal. I call this third type a T-pee formation because it resembles an Indian's T-pee. These three types were discovered and named by John P. Cole, MD in 1998

Three Hair - Type One

Three Hair - Type Two and Type Three

John P. Cole, MD

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