Before an FUE transplant, a consultation is essential with Dr. Diacakis, a plastic surgeon in Paris. A consent and an estimate will be given to you. A blood test may be requested. No other special measures are necessary.
The operation can be performed on long or short hair.
Even if it is a local anaesthetic for this type of operation, the patient is advised to take precautions for his return by taxi or accompanied. It is strongly advised against driving or taking public transport.

You are seated in an armchair. In all cases, the harvesting area at the back of the head is shaved, the surface area of which depends on the number of grafts desired.
A local anaesthetic is administered. The grafts are removed using a circular scalpel (punch) whose diameter will be according to the size of the desired grafts and reimplanted in the bald area.
The operation is not very painful. A “hylarant” kalinox gas is available at the surgery in order to make the session practically painless for the most sensitive patients. The residual orifices will be filled within two to three hours without the need for stitches. With the new techniques and very fine punches, this sample leaves no trace.
The regrowth of shaved hair on the donor area (back of the head) means that no traces will be visible after 8 to 10 days.

The post-operative after-effects of an FUE graft are painless or not very painful with a type of tingling.
Edema is rarer but can exist if the area to be covered is the forehead or the golf courses.
The micro-orifices of the graft heal in a few days and the hair grows back in 8 to 10 days.
A first shampoo is authorised from the third day, gentle and careful “by tapping” and should be done during the following 7 days.
The implanted hair often falls out around the 10th day. In fact, only the germinal cells of the bulb, which will produce a new hair, remain implanted. They will give birth to a new hair.
In the same way, often at the end of the first month, “your hair”, in contact with the re-implanted grafts, will fall out. It is therefore to be expected that during the second month less hair will remain than before the operation.
Then towards the third month the reimplanted hair and the hair that has fallen in contact with the grafts will systematically grow back.
For sports, swimming, exposure to the sun or sea bathing, it is strongly recommended to respect a period of three weeks so as not to alter the healing of the grafts.

For the vast majority of cases the result is estimated at 6 months but will be definitive after one year.
In the conditions described above, the hair transplant gives satisfaction with an Aesthetic, Natural and Dense result.

• The advantages of hair transplant by the “FUE method” compared to the “strip method” :
  • No “surgical” sampling, therefore no scarring.
  • Less oedema.
• Disadvantages of hair transplantation by the FUE method compared to the strip method : 
  • Shaving of the collection area
  • More expensive
  • Longer