» » They occur in all patients, but with
» » strip patients, the follicular groups are broken into smaller pieces
» » resulting in patients paying two or more times for the same follicular
» » group.
» Emilie,
» Dr. Cole has performed strip procedures before, you also said he
» performs it on rare cases now. So does the comment above applies for the
» strip procedures performed by your clinic? If you keep repeating the above
» comment all over the forum, you’re ethically obliged to answer this.
» Arvin
Regardless of the procedure a patient elects to have, Dr. Cole does the best he can with the tools, methods, and individual patient characteristics at hand. Despite years of experience and thousands of cases, Dr. Cole acknowledges that fractionation and transections are part of strip surgery. This is why he prefers and recommends FUE over FUT.
Dr. Cole is currently out of the country but I believe he has some additional thoughts, relating to this thread, that he would like to share once he returns next week.
» » First, one cannot necessarily determine the size of the graft that is
» » being removed simply by looking on the surface. This is because all the
» » hairs exit from one or two orifices and combine together.; this is how
» » hairs exit the scalp in natural groups.
»
» I thought one of the advantages of fue is that you can cherry pick 1,2,or
» 3-hair follicular unit from the donor, but now you are telling me it cannot
» be easily determined?
Dr. Cole is able to determine which follicular units contain multiple hairs, and will provide greater density, but he would not necessarily have been able to determine that these FUs contained 7-hairs until they were removed. As you can see in the photos, not all of the hairs can be seen simply from looking at the surface.
» » » They occur in all patients, but with
» » » strip patients, the follicular groups are broken into smaller pieces
» » » resulting in patients paying two or more times for the same
» follicular
» » » group.
» » Emilie,
» » Dr. Cole has performed strip procedures before, you also said
» he
» » performs it on rare cases now. So does the comment above applies for
» the
» » strip procedures performed by your clinic? If you keep repeating the
» above
» » comment all over the forum, you’re ethically obliged to answer this.
» » Arvin
»
» Regardless of the procedure a patient elects to have, Dr. Cole does the
» best he can with the tools, methods, and individual patient characteristics
» at hand. Despite years of experience and thousands of cases, Dr. Cole
» acknowledges that fractionation and transections are part of strip surgery.
» This is why he prefers and recommends FUE over FUT.
»
» Dr. Cole is currently out of the country but I believe he has some
» additional thoughts, relating to this thread, that he would like to share
» once he returns next week.
Emilie,
Thanks for your response, but could explain it better? I know follicles can get transected while extracting the strip. But once the strip is extracted why do we have fractionation and transection? Or you only mean that there are transections while extracting the strip?
Thanks,
Aravind