FUE HAIR TRANSPLANT SURGERY
What Is An FUE Hair Transplant?
FUE (Follicular Unit Excision) hair transplant surgery is a procedure that involves extracting individual hair follicles from the back and sides of your head and transplanting them to a part of the scalp that suffers from thinning or balding.
Patients can undergo FUE hair transplant surgery to a receding hairline or temples as well as a balding crown. The Treatment Rooms London is a hair transplant clinic that excels in providing men, women and transgender patients an FUE hair transplant procedure, giving all patients dedicated Surgeon-led care.
How Does FUE Hair Transplant Surgery Work?
FUE transplant surgery involves relocating hairs from the back and sides of the head to a balding area such as a receding hairline or thin crown. Over a 6-12 month period, these hairs will grow, recreating hair where it has previously been lost. The end result is a rejuvenated appearance of naturally grown hair.
The process takes place whilst the patient is under local anaesthesia. Once the patient is unable to feel anything, our leading surgeons extract each hair follicle individually.
The extracted hair follicles are then reinserted using specialist sub-millimetre techniques, puncturing the areas of the scalp that are due to receive the transplanted hair follicles. The next part of the procedure applies an artistic touch as our surgeons must consider hair depth, angulation, direction, and density to provide as natural and realistic a look as possible.
The donor area where the hair has been extracted from, heal with dot-like scars less than a millimetre in diameter. These FUE scars cannot be seen once the hair has grown to a grade 1 or 2.
In the first 1-3 months, the newly implanted hair will shed before growing again in 4-12 months, this is when the full results will be realised.
As hair is taken from an area that does not suffer from the underlying hair loss process, FUE hair transplants should last for 20 years and potentially a lifetime.
Who Is A Candidate For An FUE Hair Transplant?
There are a number of factors that go into deciding whether or not you might be a candidate for an FUE hair transplant. Most commonly, good candidates for a FUE hair transplant are those patients who have reached an age where their hair loss has naturally stabilised or if they have taken medication to help prevent further loss.
Another important consideration is why you are losing hair and diagnosing your hair loss as well as its impact on your health. If you have a hair loss condition that is amenable to surgery we then evaluate whether or not there is healthy hair growth on the back and sides of the head. This is also called the donor area and is where our hair transplant surgeons will harvest healthy hair follicles, relocating them to the affected hair loss areas of the scalp.
Other considerations include the texture of the hair, hair colour, and the type of hair. These considerations are discussed in detail during a consultation with your hair transplant Surgeon, either Dr Fernando, Dr Vara or Dr Pather.
FUE Hair Transplant Before & After Pictures
Our clinic has one of the largest gallery of FUE hair transplant before and after cases in the world. You can see a some below as well as our entire caseload in our before and after gallery.
Dan’s Hairline Transplant
Type of Surgery : FUE hair transplant
Hair Loss Level : N/A
Number of Grafts : 1510
"If you are concerned about your hair, like a lot of guys are, getting in touch with The Treatment Rooms and making that change is the best thing I’ve ever done for my confidence"
How much does FUE surgery cost?
| NUMBER OF GRAFTS | TOTAL PRICE |
|---|---|
| 500 - 1000 grafts | £3,000 - £5,000 |
| 1000 - 2000 grafts | £5,000 - £10,000 |
| 2000 - 4000 grafts* | £10,000 - £20,000 |
There is no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to FUE hair transplants. There are a number of factors that go into determining the overall cost. At The Treatment Rooms London, hair transplant costs start at £3000, we charge between £5-£6 per graft.
To make things easier, take a look at our interactive FUE graft calculator to get a better idea as to the potential cost. For further information, take a look at our hair transplant cost page.
Meet our Hair Transplant Surgeons & Owners
Dr Fernando and Dr Vara are both award winning, accomplished surgeons, who have years of experience in the field of hair restoration surgery. They have recently won Hair Restoration Clinic of the year 2023 at the prestigious Aesthetic Awards in London, testament to the quality of care they provide.
Both of them are regularly invited to appear on prominent media outlets such as the BBC, The Metro, Vice and The Daily Mail.
James’ Hairline Transplant
Type of Surgery : FUE hair transplant
Hair Loss Level :Norwood 3
Number of Grafts : 1194
"I couldn’t have asked for more. Got the exact result I was hoping for and looks so natural that nobody could ever tell I’d had a hair transplant"
Benefits of Having your FUE Hair Transplant at The Treatment Rooms London
- All patients are seen and operated on by clinic owners and surgeons Dr Fernando and Dr Vara
- 1-1 consultation with your dedicated surgeon to assess and diagnose your hair loss
- 1-1 consultation with your dedicated surgeon to plan hair transplant surgery
- The operation is performed by your dedicated hair transplant surgeon
- Bespoke aftercare package and follow up
Can An FUE Hair Transplant Fail?
Careful planning and quality surgery should ensure patients are able to succeed in restoring their hairline or crown. The most common reasons we find in patients who request a hair transplant repair where their original surgery had failed are:
- Poor surgical planning
- Too many grafts taken out in a single day
- Poor quality extraction
- Poor quality implantation
- Technician-led surgery with no Surgeon involvement
- Poor quality aftercare
At The Treatment Rooms London, we have extensive experience in repair failed hair transplants and run a free repair programme for patients who have particularly suffered as a result of poor quality surgery. This includes relocating poorly implanted hair and thickening previously implanted areas as seen in the patient pictured.
Does An FUE Hair Transplant Leave Scars?
FUE hair transplant surgery leave small "dot-like" scars less than 1mm in diameter across the donor area from which hair has been taken from. This is commonly across the sides and back of the scalp. Other donor areas can be the beard or chest area too. These scars cannot be seen once the hair has grown to a grade 1 or 2 and this is showcased in the adjacent image. If you would like to know more, please read our dedicated article: Does FUE hair transplant surgery leave scars?
How Long Does An FUE Hair Transplant Take?
The procedure takes approximately 6-8 hours to complete depending on the size of the case. The day is often split into the rough schedule below:
- Planning of the procedure (1 hour)
- Anaesthesia and incisions (1 hour)
- Extraction of hair (2 hours)
- Lunch (45 mins)
- Implantation of hair (2 hours)
- Post-operation recovery and debrief (30 mins)
Does FUE Hair Transplant Hair Fall Out?
The implanted hair will often fall out for the first 1-2 months after an FUE hair transplant- this is a normal part of the process. The roots that were implanted remain under the skin surface and will begin to grow after 3-4 months following the procedure. They will have grown entirely by 9-12 months and you will be able to style your hair normally.
Hair that is implanted using the FUE hair transplant technique, should last 10-20 years or longer.
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FUE HAIR TRANSPLANT FAQs
Follicular Unit Excision is a hair transplant technique that replaces lost or thinning hair by moving strong and healthy hair follicles from the donor area (usually the back or side of the scalp) to the area with a receding or thinning hairline or crown.
Authored by
Dr Roshan Vara
Full Medical Member of the British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery (BAHRS) Associate Member of International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS)
Reviewed by
Dr Dilan Fernando
Royal College of Surgeons
Full Medical Member of the British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery (BAHRS) Associate Member of International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS)
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