Old Style grafts are cir­cu­lar pieces of scalp con­tain­ing any­where from 7–15 hair fol­li­cles. This old-fashioned tech­nique, is not typ­i­cally used today, how­ever some­times they are com­bined with smaller min­i­grafts and micro­grafts to cre­ate a more nat­ural appear­ance. Since the 1970’s through the 1980’s hair trans­plan­ta­tion with Old Style grafts, or “plugs” as they are com­monly referred to, was the stan­dard method of sur­gi­cal hair restora­tion. Presently most hair trans­plants are accom­plished with min­i­grafts and micro­grafts alone. This tech­nique is also used to revise unsightly hair­lines caused by old tech­niques such as “plugs”.

Revi­sion of the hair line can be restored by a sur­gi­cal hair restora­tion sur­geon, with immense prac­tice of today’s inno­v­a­tive tech­niques. Meth­ods such as, stereo­scopic micro­scope dis­sect­ing gives sur­geons a greatly enlarged and, there­fore com­pletely clear view of the struc­ture of your hair and the way it is placed in its nat­ural state. This enables sur­geons to work with great pre­ci­sion between each fol­lic­u­lar unit and pre­serve not only the hair but also its vital struc­tures such as the seba­ceous glands and the hair roots. With­out the stereo­scopic micro­scope, there is a dan­ger that the sur­geon could cut through some of the hairs vital struc­tures and dam­age them in the process. Grafts trans­planted with the stereo­scopic micro­scope will be health­ier and there­fore will grow more vig­or­ously.