Trichophytic Suture, for an undetectable scar?
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
I would like to understand how the trichophytic suture works? I read that it is a new technique?
This is an old technique, which has been redescovered in 2005 by Dr Mario Marzola (Australie). In 1999, during the ISHRS Congress, Dr Simon Rosenbaum gave information about it; and this technique had its rebirth during the expansion of the FUE technique. In fact, most of the patients are worried about the scar left by the strip of the FUT technique. Many tests were done until the ISHRS congress in Las Vegas, in 2007, and only one technique of trichophytic suture has been chosen. A little strip of skin is taken, about 1 mm wide, from the inferior part of the skin which is going to be sutured in order to let the hair grow through the scar during the healing. Thanks to the trichophytic suture the scar is almost always unnoticeable, sometimes undetectable. Unfortunately, we do not have many indications yet that is why it must be used very carefully.
