SmartGraft Hair Restoration

Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute offers SmartGraft hair restoration — an automated follicular unit extraction (FUE) system that harvests individual hair follicles from the donor area and transplants them to thinning zones without a linear scar. Dr. Jejurikar's practice uses the SmartGraft device's temperature-controlled collection chamber to preserve follicle viability during harvest. The procedure is performed under local anaesthesia and results in natural hairline recreation with no visible scarring at the donor site.

SmartGraft hair restoration at Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute offers patients experiencing androgenetic alopecia (male or female pattern hair loss) a permanent, natural-looking solution through follicular unit extraction with an advanced automated harvesting system. SmartGraft is an FDA-cleared FUE (follicular unit extraction) device that addresses the primary limitation of manual FUE — follicle desiccation during the extraction and holding phase, which can reduce graft survival rates. The SmartGraft system uses a pneumatic harvesting handpiece to individually extract follicular units from the donor scalp (typically the occipital and temporal zones, which retain DHT-resistance) and immediately deposits them into a temperature-controlled hydration chamber. Maintaining follicles in a temperature-stabilised, hydrated environment significantly improves their viability during the holding period before transplantation, contributing to higher graft survival rates compared to traditional manual-hold techniques. Follicular units extracted by the SmartGraft device leave only tiny 0.8–1.0 mm circular punch sites at the donor area, which heal as small white dots that are invisible to the eye once the surrounding hair grows back to normal length. There is no linear scar of the type produced by strip excision (FUSS) surgery, which makes SmartGraft FUE the preferred choice for patients who wear their hair short. During the transplant phase, the extracted follicular units are individually placed into recipient sites created at precise angles and depths to replicate the natural pattern and direction of the patient's native hair growth. The hairline design is planned collaboratively with the patient before surgery, taking into account the existing hair pattern, projected future loss, donor supply, and facial proportions. The procedure is performed under local tumescent anaesthesia and is completed in a single day, with total session length of six to eight hours for a standard graft count. Patients may experience some redness and scalp sensitivity for approximately one week post-procedure. Transplanted hairs shed in the first two to three weeks — a normal process called effluvium — and new hair growth begins emerging from the transplanted follicles at three to four months, with full density assessment at 12 months.