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Follicular Unit Excision - FUE

At Prime Hair Clinic, we specialize in advanced Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) hair transplant solutions tailored to your individual hair restoration goals. Whether you are just beginning to notice thinning hair or have been managing hair loss for years, our Calgary-based team is dedicated to providing expert care that results in natural, long-lasting outcomes.

FUE is a trusted method for treating hairline recession and pattern hair loss. At our clinic in Calgary, we utilize the latest technology and evidence-based protocols to ensure you receive the safest and most effective treatment available.

Our team is led by board-certified surgeons and experienced clinicians who take a personalized and transparent approach to each patient’s journey. From your initial consultation to post-treatment care, you will be supported by a team that truly understands the emotional and physical impact of hair loss.

We proudly serve patients from Calgary, Edmonton, and throughout Alberta who are seeking a local, expert alternative to overseas hair transplants. Our clinic combines surgical precision with medical aesthetics and scalp health solutions, all under one roof.

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Is Follicular Unit Excision Right For You?

FUE is a fantastic harvesting method and a popular choice among our patients. Advancements have enabled more precise graft placement, resulting in excellent surgical outcomes. Though more labour-intensive for the physician and resulting in a higher price point, the FUE approach to hair restoration offers significant advantages. One benefit is that the resulting scars on the back of the head are small enough to allow for a shorter hairstyle than with FUT. Smaller sessions are recommended with FUE to avoid over-harvesting the donor region, leaving a thinned-out, “moth-eaten” look on the back of the head.

Feel confident in that each and every graft is inspected for damage before placement, excised by our renowned doctors with the finest surgical touch, and handled by Alberta’s most skilled team of technicians.

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How Does FUE - Follicular Unit Excision Work?

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Punch Incision
A specialized punch tool is used to create tiny, circular incisions around individual follicular units in the donor area. This allows precise separation of each graft while protecting the surrounding tissue.

Excision of Follicular Units
Once the punch incision is made, each follicular unit—containing 1–3 hairs—is carefully loosened and prepared for removal. This step requires skill to avoid damaging the follicles.

Harvesting the Grafts
The loosened follicular units are gently extracted from the scalp using fine forceps. Each graft is then inspected and sorted under magnification to ensure quality and viability.

Implantation of the Grafts
The recipient area is numbed, and small, customized sites are created to fit each graft. Single hairs are placed at the hairline for a natural, soft look, while multi-hair grafts are placed further back for density. Careful attention is given to hair direction, angle, and design for a seamless, natural result.

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Your Questions Answered

  • No. Follicular Unit Excision involves cutting the skin leaving thousands of small circular scars. Claiming FUE to be scarless is dishonest, though unfortunately there are lots of inaccuracies in the industry promoted by marketing interests.

  • We are of the opinion that in the hands of a skilled surgeon, nothing compares to the quality of a handheld punch. We only use industry leading handheld motorized punches. Though promising, robotic transplant machines (ie. ARTAS) are still many years away from the calibre of a skilled surgeon. Suction aided FUE machines (ie. Neograft) don’t allow for real time inspection of grafts and may cause unnecessary trauma, therefore are not utilized at our clinic.

  • Follicular Unit Excision is not the preferred initial harvesting method for large transplant needs. Suitable surgeries would be 2500 grafts or less at a time. In situations when many thousands of grafts will be needed over the course of a lifetime, FUT should be strongly considered in combination with FUE.

  • The FUE procedure necessarily has to harvest from a larger area than FUT. Sometimes that involves going outside of the ‘safe donor area’. If the transplanted donor hair was taken from an area that is not immune to baldness, it’s possible for the hair to fall out at some stage following a transplant.

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