Hair Transplant Encyclopedia

Every technique scars; they differ in shape, not in whether. Skin removed by a punch or a blade is replaced by scar tissue in both...

A whorl is the point hair spirals out from. It forms before birth, when follicles set their angle in the developing skin, and it fixes...

A hairline is built from named parameters, not from taste. The published framework fixes where the line starts, where it turns, and how it is...

The ceiling is set by the recipient area, not by the donor. Grafts arrive with no blood supply and must be reached by vessels growing...

The clock starts at extraction and does not stop at placement. Ischemia time is the interval during which a graft has no blood supply of...

A keloid is not simply a thick scar. The distinction is where it stops. A hypertrophic scar stays inside the boundary of the original wound...

The Ludwig Scale has three grades, and progression is read from the widening of the central part rather than from a moving hairline. Grade Appearance...

The difference is how the punch is turned, not what it does. In manual FUE the operator rotates the punch by hand and feels the...

A mega session is defined by graft number in a single day, not by technique. The label is applied loosely, generally to sessions well above...

Irregularity is built at two scales, and both are needed. Macro-irregularity is the shape of the whole line: shallow peaks and setbacks across the forehead,...

The term comes from strip surgery, where dissection is the whole job. A removed strip is first cut into thin slivers, then separated under a...

People detect an artificial hairline before they can explain it. The eye is trained on thousands of real hairlines and reads the pattern, not the...