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This video presents placing challenge: long hair. When placing grafts between hairs, part the hair to expose the sites and place the grafts row by row, using a comb or closed forceps to part the hair and use a folded gauze and a nondominant hand to hold the hair down and away from the work area. If the hair is very long, it should be braided and bundled with rubber bands in quadrants to keep it out of the field and to prevent it from tangling. This technique not only facilitates placing by exposing sites but also prevents the surrounding hair from being entrapped below the transplanted grafts. However, at the end of the procedure, the entire recipient area is cleaned and combed, and then the hair should be gently tugged upward to dislocate and expose grafts that have native hair entrapped below them. Once these grafts are reinserted, a final verification and cleaning can be undertaken.