Professional Hair Transplant Nurse/ Technician Interview Questions & Answers:

1. What is graft Excision?

Graft excision is a hair transplant repair technique where large or improperly positioned grafts are excised (removed). The large graft is usually divided up into smaller units and then re-implanted in a more natural distribution and direction. Graft excisions are usually performed prior to camouflage techniques in hair transplant repair.

2. What is Full Graft (“Plugs”)?

The first type of graft performed, these consist of 10-20 hairs in a circular 4-5mm graft. They are responsible for the ‘cornrow' dollhead look of older transplants when finer grafts were not used to soften and fill in hairlines.

3. What is follicular Pairing?

Placing two follicular unit grafts (FUG, See Follicular Unit Graft) into one recipient site to create a larger single graft in an area like the central scalp that would benefit from larger sized grafts when there is an insufficient number of these larger sized follicular units.

4. What is norwood Classification?

A scale for the classification of hair loss developed by O'tar Norwood in 1975. It was based upon an earlier classification of Hamilton. The Norwood scale is used by hair transplant surgeons to describe the extent of a person's hair loss. The regular class has 7 stages and the A class has five.

5. What is scalp Expansion?

A scalp reduction surgery in which balloons implanted below the scalp expand hair-bearing areas which are used to cover the reduced scalp area.

6. Tell us what is dermal Papilla?

The dermal papilla is situated at the base of the hair follicle. The dermal papilla is composed of fibroblasts, blood vessels, and nerves. This structure is extremely important in the regulation of hair growth and is a key element in hair cloning, as the cells that make up the dermal papilla (fibroblasts) can be multiplied.

7. What is mini-graft?

Technically, a 3-6 hair graft derived from either a single follicular unit, multiple follicular units, or multiple, partial follicular units. In practice, hair transplant surgeons often call grafts containing up to 10 or more hairs mini-grafts.

8. What is scalp Extension?

A scalp reduction surgery in which a hooked medical device applies force to the scalp and stretch the hair-bearing areas to allow them to cover the reduced section of the scalp.

9. What is follicular Unit Hair Transplantation (FUHT)?

FUHT is just the more wordy version of FUT. It describes the same procedure. Since a follicle is “hair,” the word hair in the title is redundant.

10. What is scalp Flap?

A scalp reduction surgery in which surgically removed flaps of hair bearing skin are used to cover reduced areas of the scalp and hair line. There are different methods of scalp flap surgery.