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Thank you CIT for making common sense clear for any newbies (Hair Transplant)

posted by benji, 20.05.2008, 20:08

Ive seen pics over the years of stretched donor scars on these websites.


That is what some of the strip proponents seem to convieniently forget. Even if you pre-stretch the scalp, that skin is going to want to pull back over the YEARS post-surgery, and its going to pull in all directions around it. When the scar stretches, there is that thickening white line of scar tissue, just STUCK there....................inhibiting a man from buzzing the back short.



Furthermore, there is another reason to not want to remove strips of donor flesh from the back of the scalp at this time. Follica, and more remotely, ACELL. If Follica's method of wounding the skin and generating new hair follicles by inhibiting epidermal growth factor post-re-epilithialization works....................a man would be throwing away the skin with the cell lines that produce the best donor-area hair. Skin that he could use to perhaps grow MORE DONOR HAIR in the future if either of these two methodologies work out. If a man gets a FUE (or CIT or whatever you want to call it), the skin is STILL THERE. The patent (Follica's anyway) calls for new hairgrowth even in a scar also...............so the potential for "making" new donor hair would exist even in the small holes where the FUE was extracted. But if one cuts out a big swath of the donor area...........that skin is gone for good. No hair can be "made" from it.

Even if one FUE's IN hair to a strip scar..................the skin color and stretching are still going to be an issue if he cuts his hair short, and the slight changes in direction of surrounding hair might also present a problem. Small-instrument FUE's done by professional hands are easily the least invasive, least scarring kind of hair surgery available now.



Ive seen some stretched donor zip scars that pulled out fairly wide when the patient swore that it "used to be pretty small" in the past. Its a concern for anyone getting a strip.


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• Simulated scalp reduction - donor stretching - CIT, 20.05.2008, 19:53 (Hair Transplant)
  • Thank you CIT for making common sense clear for any newbies - benji, 20.05.2008, 20:08
    • Thank you CIT for making common sense clear for any newbies - nwone, 21.05.2008, 09:11
    • No Benji, thank you for actually being able to understand - CIT, 21.05.2008, 14:23
      • half the board is too dense to see the truth on this - HanginInThere, 31.05.2008, 13:36
    • Thank you CIT for making common sense clear for any newbies - mwinston, 22.05.2008, 14:39
      • Thank you CIT for making common sense clear for any newbies - mwinston, 31.05.2008, 12:35
        • Thank you CIT for making common sense clear for any newbies - CIT, 05.07.2008, 14:41