With FUE, we shave the back and sides of the head all the way around. Then, we numb the area—starting with the sides, then the back, and finally the other side. Once the area is fully numb, we apply a solution that slightly swells the scalp. This helps reduce bleeding during the procedure.
Using a specialized drill, we extract the individual grafts we need. Because of the way FUE works, we are thinning out the donor area to extract grafts while leaving other hair behind to cover the area. This ensures that when the hair grows back, it will cover the FUE extraction sites and no one will notice anything has been done.
However, if we take too many grafts from the back and sides, it can thin out the donor area too much, making it over-harvested. This is difficult to recover from, and we may need to transplant hairs back into the donor area to fill it out again. This is why it’s important to be respectful of the donor area during FUE, as we’re literally thinning it out.
In the video we’re showing here, you can see what I mean about ensuring the donor area remains intact. We’re doing a comb-through of a large post-FUE treatment, several months after the procedure. As you can see, it looks as though nothing has been done—the hair is thick and dense at the back, despite us having taken a large number of grafts to replace lost hair on top.
