Greetings,
In the past we needed to shave the back and sides of the scalp to perform FUE because the follicles can only be extracted as short hairs.
Noe we have a new technique called long hair FUE. With this technique we go through the donor region and individually cut short the follicles we will extract while leaving the hair around it ling. This allows the patient to keep their hair long for the procedure and creates no significant change to the patients visual appearance.
This technique is a but more expensive than short hair FUE but for those that don’t want to shave their head it can be the difference between doing the procedure and not doing it.
The photo below shows a long hair FUE patient of mine’s donor region one week post procedure.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, MD
