Q: I am interested in an FUT hair transplant. How do you figure out how large a strip to use for the hair restoration when transplanting all follicular units? — P.K., New York City, N.Y.
A: The length of the donor strip incision is determined by the number of follicular unit grafts required for the hair restoration. There are slightly less than 100 follicular units/cm2, so if a 1cm wide strip is used, a hair restoration procedure requiring 1800 grafts would need a strip that measured slightly more than 18cm in length.
A 2800 graft procedure would measure slightly more that 24cm if the strip were 1.2cm wide.
The width of the strip is determined by scalp looseness or laxity. For more information, please see the page on the Donor Area.
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- Does Strip Harvesting In Hair Transplant Make Donor Area Smaller?
- How Big is the Donor Strip in an FUT Hair Transplant?
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