Is What They Say About FUE Real or Marketing Hype?

Hi! Need your comments on the “No Touch Technique”. Is it similar to FUE. The medical group claim it to be better than the strip method. The FAQ section on their website mentions the difference between their technique versus FUE. But I am confused. Only you seem to be the qualified person to clear the doubts. Ultimately, which one is the safest and more result oriented method, which any average hair transplant patient can go through.

Thanks

There is a lot of marketing hype in the industry, because there is big money at stake. Many doctors claim what they think you want to hear. From the time you pay for the procedure until you get the results, the time-span runs 8 months, so you see that if a doctor is not honest and sells hype, then your check clears his bank account before you ever see what you bought.

In this case, it seems that this medical group has a tool that they use that removes the grafts via the FUE technique (no strip) — but at what accuracy? How successful are the grafts to grow out? They don’t state any statistics, so I don’t have any idea how to answer your question. I do not know enough about this group to make any qualitative statement about their work.

Many times tools are used by clinics that seemingly don’t care about growth rates and just want to be able to collect your money and say, “Well, the graft is in your head. — even if it doesn’t grow due to damage from when it was extracted, I did my job.” The consumer can tell how good the doctor is by asking them to discuss the amount of damage to the hairs in the grafts when they are extracted. At our clinic, we count damage per hair in the graft and can not only tell you what we got for hair yield, but show you our records of yield per hair and per graft. In a very recent article published by a Japanese group in the Hair Transplant Forum (a print newsletter), they discuss damage per hair in each graft with FUE. Their paper mirrors our formal publication back in 2002 that says there is considerable damage to the hairs in the graft in a substantial number of patients.

Watch this site over the next week and you will see ways to tell the scam artists from the good guys. You should not believe everything you read. Just because there is a doctor selling you the service, be very careful in your decision to go the FUE route without some proof that the clinic or doctor offering the procedure actually gets good results.