Category Techniques

FUT is the traditional strip-harvesting method used in modern hair transplantation. During FUT, a surgeon removes a narrow ellipse of hair-bearing scalp from the donor area, closes the wound with sutures or staples and divides the strip under magnification into…

Sapphire FUE is one of the most frequently promoted hair transplant packages in Turkey. Despite the name, sapphire does not describe how donor grafts are removed. The donor stage is still follicular unit excision (FUE). “Sapphire” normally refers to the…

DHI is one of the most widely advertised hair transplant terms in Turkey, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. In most clinic packages, “direct hair implantation” means that follicular-unit grafts are placed with pen-shaped implanter devices. The…

FUE is one of the two principal ways of harvesting donor hair for modern hair transplantation. During follicular unit excision, naturally occurring groups of hairs are individually released from the donor area with small circular punches, removed, checked and then…

Hair transplant clinics often present FUE, DHI, Sapphire FUE and FUT as four completely separate procedures. That comparison is convenient for marketing, but it is not technically precise. A hair transplant has several stages, and these labels may describe different…