Step 4: Preparing the Grafts

Technically, the graft preparation is not difficult. The hair bearing tissue must be keep cold and moist. Injury from the cutting blade used to turn the slivers of hair into individual grafts must be kept to a minimum. See “Step 3: preparing the receptor sites” for further related discussion.

The photo to the left shows folliuclar unit grafts prepared from the ellipse that was taken from the donor and which was “slivered”, crosscut and trimmed under a dissecting microscope to produce these individual cylinders of tissue that contain clusters of 1,2,3 and, rarely, 4 hairs.