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How hair transplants actually work: the difference between FUE, DHI and FUT, who they suit, and the year-long wait for the result to grow in.
A hair transplant, from the day of surgery to the result a year on.

Choosing a technique

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FUE, DHI, FUT: competing quotes and how people actually decided.

Most readers arrive here holding two or three quotes that disagree about everything: the technique, the graft count, the price, sometimes even the diagnosis. The threads in this section are people trying to turn that pile of PDFs into a decision, with help from readers who have already made theirs.

How the decided people decided

A pattern repeats across this section: the readers who ended up happiest rarely chose an acronym, they chose a surgeon, and then had that surgeon explain why their technique suited this particular head. The ones still agonising are usually comparing marketing claims from clinics that have never examined them, which is a contest nothing can win.

The homework that actually moves people forward is unglamorous. Understand what each method really involves (FUE versus FUT and what DHI actually changes cover the mechanics without the sales gloss), then interrogate the quotes: who performs which step, how the graft number was reached, what happens if growth disappoints. The site's list of questions to ask before a hair transplant exists for exactly this stage.

What no thread here can settle is which technique suits your scalp, your donor supply and your pattern of loss. That is an examination finding, not a forum finding, and any clinic willing to promise you a method before seeing your head has told you something useful about itself.