Ultra-Fine Micro Extraction (UFME)

Name: Assure Clinic
Brand: Assure
Rating: 4.9 (582 reviews)

Assure Clinic is a respected hair and skin clinic that is reputable due to the safety and effectiveness of hair extraction services, especially Ultra-Fine Micro Extraction. Our treatment is based on high-tech skills and equipment; we provide multifaceted therapy for your skin and hair. Our mission is to regrow hair through new, safe, and effective medical technology.

Why Extraction Matters

A hair transplant procedure called ultra-fine micro extraction entails removing individual hair follicles from the epidermis and relocating them to a different area of the body where hair is weaker or nonexistent. UFME is a very popular method, and our experienced surgeons use micropunches to extract every follicle and move it, with no sign of extraction.

With this process, you can be assured of getting a fuller and more natural-looking head of hair without any hair plugs. Its advantages are the following:

Safety: The Ultra-Fine Micro Extraction procedure is safe, with few side effects, such as tiny white spots left where the follicles were picked. There may be temporary side effects that go away in a couple of days after the treatment, such as bruising, swelling, and sensitivity.
Convenience At Assure Clinic, we perform the Ultra-Fine Micro Extraction treatment over a couple of days, in 2-4 hour sessions. Very rarely do we go for a mega session, and since it is an outpatient procedure, you can go home after your treatment. It won’t interrupt your daily routine.
Effectiveness t is a very effective treatment, and the hair typically starts to grow in 3-4 months. You can expect up to 80% of transplanted hair to grow back.

Simple, Surgeon-Led Donor Mapping

Before our surgeons start the process, they will carefully assess and map the donor area. This is done to ensure you get optimal follicle harvesting and natural-looking results. The main goal of our surgeon is to extract your follicles in a manner that maintains the density in the donor area while preventing over-harvesting.

Besides, proper mapping also ensures that your transplanted hair blends smoothly with your existing hair to give you a natural-looking result.

Comfort-Focused Local Anaesthesia

Our clinic is known for its comfort-first approach. We do not flood your entire back of the head in one sitting. Instead, we break the donor area into three smaller sections – left, right, and center. We also divide the entire process into two days. On Day 1, our team will numb and work on one side of your donor area, and on Day 2, they will work on the other area.

This approach can help you with:

We offer light and comfortable treatment sessions, using less anaesthesia.
There will be less local swelling or ballooning, which will make it easier for the grafts to be lifted.
Since we will be working on segments over a couple of days, you will be able to sleep on the side that was not touched, allowing you to rest comfortably between the treatment days.

The 0.7 MM Tapered Punch

Our surgeons use a 0.7 mm tapered punch as a tool that narrows to 0.65 mm near the tip for the Ultra-Fine Micro Extraction procedures. This is a small and cylindrical tool with a tapered edge, which we use to extract individual hair follicles from your donor area of the scalp. This tool is beneficial in our procedure because:

The small 0.7 mm size allows for minimal damage to the surrounding areas and hence fewer scars.
Since UFME involves hair extraction one by one, 0.7 mm is the perfect tool size for this purpose.
This device makes the openings narrow enough that they tend to seal within a couple of days.

Our surgeon operates the pedal, and the punch is driven by a low-speed motor that varies the RPM by sensing rather than running at a fixed speed. Therefore, each graft has a clean, speedy score as a result.

Lift-And-Check Routine

The lift-and-check routine in our UFME procedure is a technique where our surgeon will extract your hair grafts individually and inspect each one to ensure quality. We will use fine forceps to lift and assess the units on the spot gently. Let’s run you through the breakdown in detail:

Graft extraction – The surgeon uses a small punch to make scores in the donor area.
Lift and inspection – By using fine forceps, they will gently pull out the extracted follicle unit.
Quality check – Each graft gets checked for quality purposes.
Real-time adjustment – If needed, real-time adjustments are made based on the grafts.
Graft sorting – Healthy grafts are used for implantation, and the remaining are discarded.
Recipient site preparation – The team will make small slits or incisions on the recipient area for the transplanted grafts.
Implantation – The process of healthy graft implantation is completed.

Short, Integrated Sessions

We design small UFME sessions that are more effective, with a maximum duration of 3-4 hours. Keeping short sessions ensures that there is very little to no discomfort to you. In these sessions, almost 45 minutes are kept for extracting hair follicles, which is then immediately followed by the implantation session.

The reason we keep the implantation session right after the extraction is to ensure the follicles do not stay outside the body for a long time. Doing so will enhance the growth rate and increase the possibility of their survival. Moreover, grafts’ viability is further enhanced by the brief extraction-to-implantation window, which removes the requirement for extended solution soaking.

Single-Session Graft Limit

At Assure Clinic, we prioritize your safety and comfort with a phased approach. We do not take over 1000 grafts during one session to ensure the grafts’ survival is optimal. This approach is a part of our commitment to offer quality over speed. It also assists us in:

Rapid movement back to front: Hair grafts are incredibly delicate, and time is the key to their life. By harvesting fewer, we can quickly transfer them easily into the recipient area, which is the back of the head.
Minimum swelling: A shorter treatment means your body is put under less stress. This will ease your recovery due to the reduced pain and oedema.
Quickened recovery of the donor site: By minimizing the number of grafts harvested at the donor location, we reduce the size of the wound. This allows the healing process to happen faster and more smoothly, so you can return to your routine sooner.

We plan to schedule an extra 3–4 hour session on a different day, rather than enduring a single, long and exhausting “marathon” day, which could lower the quality of the outcomes.

Donor Area Heals Discreetly

Because UFME treatment is minimally invasive, it enables discrete healing in the donor area. Even with short haircuts, the tiny and evenly spaced 0.65 – 0.7 mm scores formed during the extraction of individual hair follicles heal rapidly and leave hardly perceptible scars.

Built-In Safety Stops

Our lead surgeon pauses for a quick but crucial quality control check once every hour. This is a key part of our commitment to your safety and optimization of your procedure; it is not a routine. The surgeon assesses three important parameters during this check:

Punch sharpness: To ensure clinical effectiveness, we perform a test to verify that the surgical punch is very sharp.
Percentage of partial grafts: A sample of harvested grafts is closely inspected by the surgeon. Incomplete or damaged grafts, or “partial” grafts, should not exceed 3% of total grafts.
Your level of comfort and skin reaction: We follow up with you to find out how comfortable you are and to see how your skin is responding to the process.

Immediate Team Relay

Grafts are transferred to the implantation site as soon as they are carefully harvested and pass our quality control. No graft is allowed to wait for too long to be jeopardized, thanks to our stringent 1,000-graft-per-session cap and the effectiveness of our well-coordinated surgical team.

What Patients Notice

Surprising comfort – Our patients appreciate the light and adequate local anaesthesia that helps them to complete the ses Assign h3 to this heading sions comfortably.
Easy sleep – Since only one portion is done at a time, it makes it easier for our patients to sleep and relax.
Quick rebound – The majority of the redness goes away in a week, and pinpoint openings crust and flake off in a matter of days.
Natural density – Every follicle unit our team harvests grows out thick and pigment-rich, blending seamlessly with your scalp.

Bottom Line

Surprising comfort – Our patients appreciate the light and adequate local anaesthesia that helps them to complete the ses Assign h3 to this heading sions comfortably.
Easy sleep – Since only one portion is done at a time, it makes it easier for our patients to sleep and relax.
Quick rebound – The majority of the redness goes away in a week, and pinpoint openings crust and flake off in a matter of days.
Natural density – Every follicle unit our team harvests grows out thick and pigment-rich, blending seamlessly with your scalp.