Ultrafine single hairs

The challenge for every doctor who works in this area is to offer results that are increasingly natural and perfect, and to do so, many details must be taken into consideration. However, in our opinion, the greatest challenge continues to be the hairline, the first five to six front lines, those that will be most noticed at first glance.

How can an absolutely natural hairline be offered, that cannot be detected as a hair transplant under any circumstances? Our response is simple. By imitating nature, that is, creating a hairline exactly like someone who is not bald, the hairline that the patient would have had he not suffered hair loss.

If however we wish to imitate nature to the greatest possible degree and in the manner in which it appears, we must create those fine, feathery hairs naturally present in the first lines.

* hairline of a person who has not had a hair transplant

To do so we need finer, more sophisticated hairs. Five years ago, we isolated these fine hairs from the others when separating the follicular units. We coined them ultrafine single hairs.

Ultrafine – Fair hair

Dark hair

What are these ultrafines?

None other than the finest single hair follicular units found in the donor area.

Fair hair	Dark hair
*note the difference between the normal single hairs to the right, those of medium thickness in the middle and the ultrafines to the left, removed from the same patient, in each case.

How are ultrafines obtained?

After removing the donor area, we separate the grafts into four distinct groups: single hairs, 2-hair FUs, 3-hair FUs and ultrafines.

Fragment of the scalp transversally cut and magnified by a microscope.

Follicular Units separated

We isolate the ultrafines from the normal single hairs and at the end of the surgery we have a total number of ultrafines. In general, only 2 to 5% of the single hairs are ultrafines. This percentage varies from patient to patient depending on the type of hair from the donor area. Patients with thick, curly and dark hair tend to have a fewer number of single hairs than those patients with fine, straight, fair hair. Identifying ultrafines from normal single hairs is possible only using a high-powered microscope, with 50X magnification. Using magnifying glasses or less powerful microscopes, this division would be impossible because it would not be possible to distinguish them from normal hairs.

How and where are they placed?

At the end of surgery, they are distributed in front of the others to create a transitional zone, resulting in that feathery aspect characteristic of persons who have not undergone hair transplant surgery.

In which cases should we use ultrafines?

We have utilized ultrafines for all of our patients, but they are particularly important for repair cases, when redoing the front region, of patients with dark, thick hair.

Please contact us for further information: info@rustonclinic.com