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This video highlights avoiding disastrous outcomes in FUE practice. Surgical hair restoration has, in the last three years, seen an upsurge of interest from doctors, patients and the manufacturing industry alike in the minimally invasive follicular unit extraction technique (FUE). Though only a harvesting technique, the key factor attributable to its growing popularity is the absence of a linear scar in the donor area. This coupled with aggressive marketing by the manufacturing industry, has brought FUE to a commanding position vis-a-vis FUT (strip) technique, the present gold standard. With ever increasing demand from all quarters, FUE hair transplant fast becoming the industry norm for new entrants into the field of surgical hair restoration. With increasing number of cases being performed by doctors who may not have had the opportunity to train in this technically and physically demanding harvesting technique, complications are increasing in numbers by the day. This rash of poor results has denied the technique the acceptance it so richly deserves amongst established hair transplant centers the world over. The most common reasons for poor results and dissatisfied patients are-overharvesting the donor site, visible scarring, transgressing the safe donor zone, suboptimal growth consequent to various factors and bad surgical technique. Poor training is due to the fact that the technique being recent, there are few centers which are available for structured training programs. Till the publication of this book, there has been paucity of peer reviewed article on FUE technique. The author discusses these common complications and brings forth his tips to prevent such adverse outcomes.