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Threats (Hair Transplant)

posted by Dr. Feller Homepage, Great Neck, NY, 18.05.2008, 18:32

Franklin,
FUE was largely unkonwn in this country at the time you sought your first transplant. That's why it wasn't offered. Unfortunatley, there are still MANY strip doctors who unfairly deride FUE for the very reason many of the kool-aid drinkers on here allude to, that is, they can't do it and they don't want to lose the business.

John,
Thank you for posting that video. Now we have something substantive to talk about.

Did you see how the doctor stabbed the skin and twisted vigorously? THAT is problem number one with FUE. That twisting may functionally transect the graft even if the graft LOOKS intact afterward. The more the graft is twisted back and forth, the more damage is done. I believe this is the number one reason for poorer FUE yields compared to strip where no such force is encountered.

The second area is where the graft is pulled out of the skin with forcepts. In this particular patient the grafts came out without much difficulty and that DOES happen in a number of lucky patients. But MOST patients are not that lucky.

In most patients the amount of traction is much higher than in this video. You will not see an edited video demonstrating this. The problem is that in some patients, if the doctor cuts too low with the punch it will cut the graft. So to insure that happens he cuts a bit more shallow. When that happens, however, it's harder to remove the graft from the skin because there is still too much lower skin anchoring it. To overcome this problem the doctor has to pull HARDER with the forcepts and SQUEEZE harder to keep a grip.

Those are the three forces that I believe have limited FUE with comparison to strip:
1. Torsion
2. Traction
3. Compression.

This is a UNIVERSAL fact of all FUE to date. Notice that NO FUE doctor has come on here to SPECIFICALLY refute this truth. They know that if they did, they would not be offering "informed consent" and would therefore be breaking the law and opening themselves up to lawsuits.

Forget about the rest of the noise, those 3 forces are all that count.


Dr. Feller is located in GREAT NECK, NY and he is available to meet: NO

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Feller Medical, PC
Great Neck, NY
http://www.fellermedical.com

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