In FUE operation, patients don’t get permanent visible scars. Instead of cutting a strip of skin away and stitching it together operators utilise micromotors. A micromotor is an electrical handheld device that has a tip spinning at high speeds.

The size of the tip is custom fit for each person’s follicle size. After anaesthesia, the operator punches very tiny holes around the follicles marked for extraction. After micromotor operator covers a certain amount of area, another operator comes and starts picking up follicles from the patient’s scalp one by one. When this process is complete, the rest is pretty similar to FUT; physician opens canals and operators begin implantation one follicle at a time. 

The only difference that we see here: Micromotor eliminates the need to dissect the extracted tissue by extracting one follicle at a time in the first place.