Total Excision Techniques in Donor Area Harvesting for Hair Transplanting

Abstract

The use of Total Excision Techniques (TET) in the donor area of hair transplant patients is described and recommended. Excision of scars from prior harvestings concomitant with new ones is also advantageous. Using this approach even multiple sessions will result in not more than 2 narrow scars in the occipito-parietal area and one in each of the two temporal areas. The less scar produced in the donor area the more grafts that can be removed without cosmetically overdepleting it. The author estimates that his graft yield has increased by at least 50% since he started using TET and considers it as important an advance in hair transplanting as the concepts of alopecia reduction and minigrafting.