Multi-Unit Hair Grafting
Multi-Unit Hair Grafting™ provides the patient with the most natural appearance and the greatest density per procedure versus Micro and Follicular Unit grafting. The benefit of Multi-Unit Hair Grafting™ to the patient is that more hair can be transplanted per procedure meaning fewer procedures are needed to reach a patient's hair restoration goal.
How Multi-Unit Hair Grafting Works
PAI Medical Group developed and trademarked this remarkable procedure, which uses a blend of surgical technologies, and an array of different-size hair groupings (grafts) to best fit the individual patient's needs. This advanced technique achieves the desired density and natural appearance expected by people today in the fewest visits possible, limiting inconvenience and cost. The table below contrasts the three prevailing hair transplant techinques used around the world today.
| Multi-Unit Hair Grafting™ | Follicular Unit Grafting (FU) | Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) | |
| Maximizes hair volume per procedure |  |
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| Results in a natural appearance | |
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| Is ideal for people with advanced hair loss | |
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| Is ideal for those with moderate hair loss | |
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| Is ideal for those with minimal hair | |
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Is less cost per hair transplanted |
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| Results in more transection (killing of hairs during transplant) | False | True | True |
| Excellent | |
| Moderate | |
| Poor | |
| Very Poor | |
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 hiars 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.
Patient A Patient B
Patient A has had 2 large Follicular Unit transplants with approximately 3,500 hairs growing. Patient B has had 1 large Multi-Unit transplant with 6,500 hairs growing.
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