The Woods Technique of FUE featured on Good Medicine Television Treating Cancer Survivor 

This program first appeared on television in Australia in 2000. Since then, Dr Woods also appeared four years earlier on the same program delivering his work on follicular unit extraction (FUE). For the new few years the procedure was referred to as “micrografting” due to the fact that the term FUE attracted criticism from the hair transplant industry. Back then, FUE was considered impossible.Strip excision and punch graft surgeries dominated the industry. However, the arrival of FUE changed this forever.

Presenter: People associate baldness with middle age men but a surprising number of women suffer from hair loss. Recently I caught up with one woman who turned to a technique called micrografting which some feel gives the mot natural look in hair replacement. When Rosalie first goes to the hair dresser the last thing in mind is a cut. She prefers to leave the salon looking like she has more than what she started with. Rosalie was left with an 8cm bald patch after having a cancerous lump removed from the top of her six years ago. Since then she’s always had to fuss over her hair. Rosalie has decided to cover it permanently. After seeing our story on good medicine about a new transplant treatment called micrografting she decided to try it for it herself. its more labour intensive than most techniques but it promises results without the need for sedation or a scalpel. The micrografting technique takes individual follicles from the scalp and requires micro-incisions in the donor area and doesn’t require any stitches. Rosalie remains conscious while Dr Woods carefully removes 400 hair follicles. the transplant involves punching tiny holes into the bald patch using a hypodermic needles and dropping the hair follicles in. After a marathon 8 hours she is ready to check out her new tufts of hair.