Follicular Unit Transplantation Using Donor Strip Excision

" Traditional strip harvesting is the most common technique for removing hair and follicles from a donor site. A single blade scalpel is used to remove a strip of hair-bearing tissue. Each incision is planned carefully to assure that the follicles are removed intact.  The follicles are dissected out of the strip under a microscope into slivers or shavings. Then further dissected into the form in which they are to be transplanted. For example, single follicles for single-hair transplantation, groups of two to four follicles for follicular unit grafting. Strip-harvesting incisions are closed with sutures or staples; healing usually proceeds without complications and a barley perceptible incision line. "