For years, it was thought that the scalp hair grew as individual hair strands and there is no group of hairs on the scalp, but the recent studies say that with full proof that scalp hair is actually growing in the group of hairs known as follicular units (FU). And these follicular units are widely used in the hair transplantation. The follicular unit consists of the number of hairs that ranges between 1-4 hair strands. These follicular units give the support in terms of natural density and a head full of hair after the hair transplantation. The follicular unit status and characters are different in each individual that decides the characteristics of hair of every person. The anatomic and physiologic characteristics make the differences in their structure and every individual shows their own characteristics of hair that is all based on their type of the follicular units.

What decides the characteristics of Follicular units is jotted down below:-

Racial composition

Each and subcontinent has their own racial composition and each has different anatomic and physiologic structure in terms of their body growth and development. As far as follicular units are concerned, the United states have a racial and ethnically diverse population. The US races are segmented into 6 categories, namely; White American, Black America, Black or African American, Native American or Alaska American, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander. The type of hairs depends upon the follicular structure may be straight, frizzy or wavy- is essentially made up of the same thing. The shape of the hair follicle determines the shape of the hairs. The African people has curl hair grows from an oval hair follicle, the Asian hair grows from round hair follicles and the Caucasian hair follicles vary. And these different characteristics decides that how these follicular units are used in the hair transplantation efficiently.

Follicular Unit Transplant

The main role of follicular units is in the follicular unit transplantation as this technique decides the utilization of follicular units efficacy. There are two techniques of hair transplantation, i.e., FUT hair transplant & the FUE hair transplant; in which FUT gives you the best results of the hair transplantation in terms of offering the greater number of the grafts and densely-packed hairs. The hair transplant in Delhi is popularized just because of the greater output of the procedure via the FUT hair transplant.