Why Multi-Unit Hair Grafting is so sought after?

Apr 23

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MUG or Multi-unit Hair Grafting is so sought after because it delivers a natural result with more hair volume or coverage than more traditional methods such as Follicular Unit Grafting alone.

What happens in cases that are done entirely with Follicular Unit grafting techniques is that more of the hairs that are in the resting or Telogen phase are actually dissected out from around the base of the graft and discarded.  Additionally many more hairs die from hair bulb transection.  This is when the hair bulb is damaged or killed with the surgical instrument.

At any given time you have only between 40 or 60 percent of your hair that is visible and growing. The rest of it is in a Telogen (resting phase) and really cannot be seen by the naked eye. Using Follicular or “fine” grafting techniques, where only single hair grafts are used, will actually dissect out a lot of this resting hair. With Follicular Unit transplants, over the course of the next twelve to eighteen months that it takes to get your final result, you will actually lose a lot of the hair that you had transplanted. With the Multi-Unit Hair Grafting™ technique, the net effect is that is that you receive more hair per session and more of that hair survives. The patient wins… guaranteed.

Comments

  • Joel Taylor
    Apr 23

    I love this post – I didn’t know about MUG!

  • D.J.
    May 1

    Multi Unit Hair Grafting gave me in a single procedure what elsewhere woudl have taken 2 or even 3 procedures. I love my results!

  • Speir Raney
    May 3

    I had a Multi-unit Grafting procedure with the nasvhille PAI and was very pleased. I’d had the old style plugs years ago and they didn’t look natural.

    After a lot or research, I wasn’t impressed with the density or coverage I could get with follicular unit transplanting and decided that PAI’s approach with Micro, Follicular Unit and Multi-unit was a better fit for me.

  • Speir Raney
    May 4

    I wanted to also add that there is some great work being done out there so anybody afraid of moving forward and having a hair transplant should take comfort… the old days of bad hair transplants seem to be gone.

  • Joel Taylor
    May 7

    I totally agree Speir

  • Jessicaphync
    May 10

    I really liked this post. Can I copy it to my site? Thank you in advance.

  • Arianagorb
    May 13

    That was nice. Thank you for sharing this one.

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