Minigraft Preparation in Surgical Hair Replacement
January 1997
in “
Scandinavian journal of plastic and reconstructive surgery and hand surgery
”
TLDR A new technique using a multibladed knife makes preparing hair transplant minigrafts faster and more uniform, leading to natural-looking results.
In 1997, a study detailed a new technique for preparing minigrafts for hair transplantation, aimed at reducing the time spent cutting minigrafts by using a multibladed knife. A 38-year-old man with Norwood type V male pattern baldness underwent hair restoration surgery where 600 minigrafts were harvested from the occipital region and inserted into the bald area. This method, which involved cutting hair-bearing scalp strips into uniform minigrafts with a multibladed knife, significantly increased the speed of minigraft preparation compared to the traditional single-blade cutting technique. Additionally, the grafts prepared with the multibladed scalpel were found to be more regular in size than those obtained with the traditional technique. The study concluded that this new method facilitated the creation of a high density of evenly distributed hairs and a natural-looking hair transplant result.
