Insights on treatments, recovery planning, and evidence-based aesthetic care.
Graft transection occurs when a hair transplant surgeon slices through a follicular unit during harvesting. This damage happens most often during follicular unit excision (FUE). In this procedure, the surgeon removes individual grafts using a small cylindrical punch.
Body Mass Index (BMI) serves as a fundamental screening tool that clinicians use to assess obesity severity and evaluate potential eligibility for metabolic and bariatric surgery.
Hair graft collection stands as one of the most critical phases in modern hair restoration surgery. The way surgeons harvest follicular units directly determines how many grafts survive, how natural the results appear, and how well the donor area recovers.
Gastric sleeve surgery, also called sleeve gastrectomy, stands as one of the most performed metabolic and bariatric procedures worldwide. Surgeons remove approximately 80 percent of the stomach and create a narrow, tube-shaped stomach pouch.
Bariatric surgery changes how your body processes food. Doctors also call it metabolic surgery or weight-loss surgery. These procedures do more than shrink your stomach. They alter appetite signals, hormone levels, nutrient absorption, glucose metabolism, and obesity-related diseases.
Long Hair FUE extracts and transplants hair grafts at their existing length without shaving donor or recipient areas, enabling immediate visual preview of results.
Recipient site creation is the surgical stage where the surgeon prepares tiny openings in the balding scalp. These openings receive harvested follicular unit grafts. This stage sits between donor harvesting and graft implantation.
Obesity stands as a chronic, multifactorial disease that demands long-term management rather than short-term weight reduction. Modern medicine offers two powerful approaches to combat this condition: bariatric surgery and anti-obesity medications.
The lateral slit technique represents a specific method for creating recipient sites and placing grafts during hair transplantation. Surgeons also call this approach the coronal slit technique or the horizontal slit technique.