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• Spencer Kobren Speaks With Dr. James Harris About The Development of The ARTAS Robotic Hair Transplant System

  In Hair Transplant / By The Bald Truth / 23 May 2011

  IAHRS accepted hair transplant surgeon, Dr. James Harris is known worldwide for his role in the development of innovative technology that has helped to advance FUE surgical hair restoration to where it is today. Dr. Harris’ S.A.F.E. System is described as a three step process that utilizes both sharp and blunt instrumentation in order to rapidly and safely extract intact follicular units during the FUE process.

  During the development of the ARTAS system, Restoration Robotics turned to Dr. Harris and his breakthrough FUE technology to further improve their already cutting edge follicular unit extracting system. According to those who have used the ARTAS system in practice, the result of merging these technologies is an incredibly efficient robotic tool, that so far has proven to significantly lower graft transection rates while improving the overall consistency of FUE hair transplant surgery.

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• Robotic Assisted Hair Transplants – Will Restoration Robotics’ ARTAS System Revolutionize Surgical Hair Restoration?

  In Hair Transplant / By The Bald Truth / 27 April 2011

  Inventing devices to automate surgical hair restoration is nothing new. Both hair transplant physicians and patients alike recognize the tremendous potential in developing machinery that can make the hair transplant process more efficient, and more patient friendly.

  In a perfect world, the ability to automate hair transplantation would not only create more consistent and possibly superior surgical outcomes for patients, but it would also lower the cost to a more universally
  palatable price point.

  Not too long after Spencer Kobren introduced the work of Australian hair transplant pioneer, Dr. Ray Woods, to the North American hair transplant community, the race was on to evolve and to improve upon a surgical technique which would prove to revolutionize the field of hair restoration surgery, Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE).

  For many in the field, changing the infrastructure of their practices and taking the time to learn this labor intensive technique, was not practical. However, as FUE evolved, more physicians were willing to slowly incorporate the technique, offering patients broader options in their quest to restore their hair. Read more ›

   

• Dr. Gary Hitzig Responds To Dr. John Cole’s Recent Analysis of The Use of ACell MatriStem In Surgical Hair Restoration

  In Hair Loss Treatments, Hair Transplant / By The Bald Truth / 17 December 2010

  Surgical hair restoration expert, Dr. John Cole, recently published a post on BaldTruthTalk.Com titled “ACell, a Current Review of Applications in Hair Transplant Surgery.” In his final summary, Dr. Cole writes:

  1. There is evidence that ACell improves FUE healing and full thickness 4 mm punch graft healing in terms of skin color.

  2. There is evidence that ACell can regenerate hair in FUE extraction sites, but more work is necessary to insure this is not an isolated anecdotal occurrence.

  3. There is no evidence that ACell improves the growth of plucked hair.

  4. There is no evidence that ACell makes the growth of transplanted hair more “Robust”.

  5. There is no evidence that ACell improves strip scar appearance.

  6. There is qualitative evidence that ACell improves the feel of a strip scar in some instances, but it is difficult to understand how Dr. Cooley arrived at this conclusion .

  7. There is no evidence that ACell induces transected hairs to regrow, but it might.

  8. There is no evidence that plucked hairs regrow in the donor area, but they might.

  9. There is evidence that plucked hairs will grow finer and result is poorer coverage than transplanted hair.

  10. There is no evidence to conclude that “autocloning” occurs.

  This review has evoked several questions, concerns and criticisms about the use of ACell MatriStem in surgical hair restoration.

  This week Spencer Kobren spoke with with Gary Hitzig, M.D. about his impressions concerning the recent questions and criticism expressed by CIT/FUE pioneer, Dr. John Cole.

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