Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE – SFET) for African American Patient
Hair Loss Level:
The patient is with a NW5 area of thinning with a prior history of a small follicular unit extraction (FUE) surgery at another facility before presenting to Dr Umar. He wanted only very few grafts for his level of hair loss. He wanted only 1200 grafts used in another follicular unit extraction procedure.
Surgery:
Dr. Umar transplanted 1200 FUE grafts derived from the nape and head donor to his frontal scalp and hairline with a deliberate purpose of creating a NW3 type thinning top with emphasis placed on looking natural.
[...] the skin of people of African decent also typically curve more than caucasians. This can make hair harvesting the donor hairs more difficult. Thicker and straighter Asian hair is more forgiving to the follicular unit extraction [...]